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The Belfast Harp Festival / Feile Cruitiri Bheal Feirste --- 1992
Comes in fat pack discholder. Two booklets. Track listing on back of booklets incorrectly state CD 1 as Carolan and CD 2 as Ceol Na gCruitiri when it is the other way around. On back cover: The Belfast Harp Festival of 1792 saved for posterity much of the splendid tradition of Irish Harp Music produced by the harper composers of the previous centuries . Grainne Yeats has done much research on the Irish harping tradition. On these two CD's she uses the knowledge she has gained about traditional styles in her performances of a representative selection of the instrumental pieces and songs of the harper composers. I. Music Of The Harpers. 22 examples from the repetoire of the traditional harpers of Ireland who gathered for the last time at the Belfast Harp Festival in 1792 (69.20 mins) II.Carolan. 20 Harp solos and songs from the extensive output of Ireland's best known harper composer. (59.11 mins) The pieces on these two discs are played on Irish harps strung with brass,gut or nylon. ℗ Gael -Linn 1992.
Tracklist
Disc 1 / Music Of The Harpers.
Féachain gléas
Mairseal Ui Bhroin (Burns March)
Lord Mayo
Give Me Your Hand
Molly McAlpin
Damhsa An Phiobaire (The Piper’s Dance)
Eibhlin A Run
The Wild Geese
Love, Lie Beside Me
Róisín Dubh
Love In Secret
Oscail An Doras (Open The Door)
Ta Me ‘Mo Chodladh (I Am Asleep)
An Chuilfhionn
Rory O’More
Limerick Lamentation
Miss Hamilton
An Speic Seoigheach
Baltiorum
The Forlorn Queen
The Twisting Of The Rope
Brian Boru’s March
Disc 2 / Carolan
Lord Inchiquin
James Betagh
Mabel Kelly
William O’Flinn
Si Beag Is Si Mhor
Dr. John Hart
The Parting Of Companions
Carolan’s Receipt
Sir Arthur Shaen
The Three Plaxties
Betty O’Brien
Fanny Power
Grace Nugent
Madam Maxwell
Thomas Burke
Planxty Johnston
The Fairy Queen
Elizabeth McDermott Roe
Carolan’s Concerto
Farewell To Music