Folk
Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices with Windborne & Glasgow Chamber Choir
Tickets
THIS EVENT HAS EXPIRED
- Date
- 1st Feb 2025
- Time
- 7.45pm
- Where
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
- Price
- £30.24* includes booking fee
- Age restrictions
- Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Seating Type
- Seated
Celtic Connections proudly presents Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices with Windborne & the Glasgow Chamber Choir
The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices (Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares) Female Vocal Choir known in the past as The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir is an ensemble of rare artistic gift and enormous popular appeal. The choir truly represents one of the most amazing success stories in music.
Created in the early 1950’s the choir’s first mission was to record authentic and arranged for multiple voices choral folk songs to be recorded and broadcast first on the radio and later on TV. The Swiss music producer Marcel Cellier discovered the beauty of the Bulgarian folk songs, folk singers, their unique voices and choral skills and in 1975 released his first album with songs performed by the choir – Volume I, which he called “Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares” (The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices). The album soon became a best seller. In 1987 he released Volume II which in 1990 was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording. It was at that time that the choir adopted the name "Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares".
Since then, the choir has performed more than 1,500 concerts outside Bulgaria in some of the most prestigious venues in the world. Choir members have also worked with artists as diverse as Kate Bush and U2, the songs of the choir have been sampled and remixed by Drake, DJ Tiesto, FKA Twigs, Bring Me The Horizon and many others.
Internationally acclaimed vocal group Windborne is known for their powerful vocal arrangements showcasing an unrivaled mastery of polyphonic music from diverse cultures. Praised as “the most exciting vocal group in a generation,” Lynn Rowan, Will Rowan, Lauren Breunig, and Jeremy Carter-Gordon educate as they entertain, weaving stories about the music and its traditions. Their latest album, To Warm the Winter Hearth,” set records as the 5th most successful crowdfunded album ever. Windborne also embraces traditional music’s ties to social activism, breathing new life into old songs from movements for people’s rights for the struggles of today.
Tonight’s performance will also feature the premiere of a new choral adaption of Gaelic texts from the Carmina Gadelica, composed by organist Norman Nicholson from Oban and performed by the Glasgow Chamber Choir, conducted by Michael Bawtree. Carmina Gadelica is a collection of Gaelic texts, with English translations, gathered by Alexander Carmichael, who in 1900 published two volumes of his extensive material on many subjects which he had built up over the previous 45 years. After his death in 1912, four further volumes appeared from time to time, ending in 1971.
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