The Road From Erin - Ireland's Musical Legacy

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Label
Sono Luminus
Release Date
June 30, 1998
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VON BINGEN BUNTING P.W. JOYC
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 30, 1998
    • UPC
      053479002129
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DOR-90021
    • LABEL
      Sono Luminus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Ductu Angelico

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble

    2. O mirum admirandum

      Composer: Hildegard von Bingen

      Ensemble: Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble

    3. Bugga Fee Hoosa (Bogadh Faoi Shusa)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    4. Girls, Have You Seen George?

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    5. Toss the Feathers

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    6. The Fairy Dance

      Composer: Patrick Weston Joyce

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    7. The Green Gates

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock

    8. Tam Lin

      Composer: Davey Arthur

      Performer: Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock

    9. The Silver Spire

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock

    10. Cuimhne an Phiobaire - The Misty Maids of Galway - The Absent Minded Woman

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Ensemble Galilei

    11. The Devil and the Farmer's Wife

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Connie Dover, Roger Landes

    12. The Dawn - McGovern's - Piper on Horseback - Bay of Fundy - Stoney Point

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Helicon

    13. Lament for Owen Rua

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Carol Thompson

    14. Mild Mabel Kelly (arr. C. Norman)

      Composer: Turlough Carolan

      Ensemble: Chatham Baroque

      Performer: Chris Norman

    15. Daniel Kelly (arr. C. Norman)

      Composer: Turlough Carolan

      Ensemble: Chatham Baroque

      Performer: Chris Norman

    16. Castle Kelly (arr. C. Norman)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Chatham Baroque

      Performer: Chris Norman

    17. Captain Kelly (arr. C. Norman)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Chatham Baroque

      Performer: Chris Norman

    18. Lovely Willy

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Custer LaRue, Chris Norman

    19. Sandy's Dilemna (United States) - Coalminer's (Ireland) - Monaghan Twig (Ireland)

      Composer: Laura Risk, Traditional

      Ensemble: Greenfire

    20. Guitar Reels

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Roger Landes, John Whelan, Zan McLeod

    21. Yonder, Westwards, is the Road She Went

      Composer: William Neal

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    22. Carolan's Welcome

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Carol Thompson, Darcy Fair, Jack Coen, Billy McComiskey

    23. Continental Waltz in D Major

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Carol Thompson, Darcy Fair, Jack Coen, Billy McComiskey

    24. The Rakes of Kildare

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock

    25. The Mist Covered Mountain

      Composer: Junior Crehan

      Performer: Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock

    26. Lad O'Bierne's

      Composer: James Lad O'Bierne

      Performer: Ken Kolodner, Laura Risk, Robin Bullock


One of Ireland's most compelling gifts to the world is its music. Deliberately, inadvertently, unquenchably, the music, like the people, traveled. They went to America as eager immigrants, such as the Irish Quakers who settled in Pennsylvania, and as unwilling prisoners, like the many Irish Tories remanded to Virginia in the late 17th century. The music they brought with them famously infused America's nascent musical voice as the young country climbed on its shaky legs and learned to dance. No household, it seemed, was without a copy of "Moore's Irish Melodies," although scores of other Irish collections became nearly as popular.

Not just America:
That influence spread throughout the English-speaking world, mixing into the music of such diverse areas as Cape Breton and the Orkney Islands. And, not surprisingly, what with all the conquest-happy traffic in and around Ireland over the centuries, the music has spread even further.
- Byron A. Nilsson