Dragon Voices: the giant Celtic horns of ancient Europe

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Dragon Voices: the giant Celtic horns of ancient EuropeSUMMARY TRACK LISTING WATCH REVIEWS INFO People of Celtic culture all over ancient Europe were fascinated by lip reed instruments, and made great horns and trumpets in many forms including the carnyx, a two metre long bronze trumpet surmounted by a stylised animal head. One of these was found at Deskford, Scotland, in 1816 and reconstructed in the early 1990s; it is joined here by the magnificent Tintignac carnyx, discovered in southern France in 2004

It should be on any organ music lover’s rack

Most of it has necessitated a degree of reconstruction

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"Peter Hill is an engaging

Release date: 20 July 2018

"Some of us baked

he combines well with the adult soloists

The most impressive passages tend to be the fullest homophonic sections which close pieces

"there’s much to admire and enjoy here in considered and cogent playing perfectly attuned to the music’s modesty of expression while inking in its nuanced profundity and poetry with lightly-worn authority

and the performances here are consistently fine

There’s a sense of that distinction here

12-24 November 2012 & 11-12 January 2013

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