Lazarevitch / The High Road to Kilkenny

 Gaelic Songs and Dances from 17th and 18th Centuries

 

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien,

François Lazarevitch – recorder

Robert Getchell – tenor

Alpha,2016

 

Anonymous– Óró Mhór A Mhóirín – The Goroum 4:48

Turlough O’Carolan– Sir Uillioc De Búrca 4:44

Anonymous– An Drumadóir 2:39

John Peacock – Cuckold Come Out The Amery 4:15

Turlough O’Carolan– Edward Corcoran 2:37

Thomas Connellan– Síle Bheag Ní Chonnalláin 3:09

Turlough O’Carolan– Sir Arthur Shaen – Colonel Irwin – Clonmell Lassies – The Scolding Wife 5:12

David Murphy – Tiarna Mhaigh Eo 6:10

Anonymous– Soggarth Shamus O’Finn 3:29

Turlough O’Carolan– When She Cam Ben, She Bobbit – Kitty’s Wishes 5:06

Anonymous– Do Chuirfinnse Féin Mo Leanbh A Chodladh 3:42

Anonymous– The Banks Of Barrow 3:41

Turlough O’Carolan– James Betagh – Lady Wrixon 4:03

Anonymous– O’Neill’s Riding Barrack Hill – Petrie No. 94 – Irish Air 4:10

Anonymous– King Of The Blind 3:18

William Connellan– Molly Nic Ailpín 3:25

Anonymous– The Cunning Young Man 1:32

Anonymous– The High Road To Kilkenny – Toss The Feathers – The Mill Stream – Money Musk 3:19

After the success of For ever Fortune, early music from Scotland, François Lazarevitch continues his exploration of the ‘Celtic’ repertories with a new programme devoted to early Irish music. This repertory of old airs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries consists of dances, songs in Gaelic and varied instrumental pieces: they tell tales of wars, of love, of strong drink and tobacco, of children and bards. A leading specialist in the flute and bagpipe families, François Lazarevitch opens out new horizons of colours and sounds. He has gathered around him here a number of distinguished performers of early music (including the fabulous Baroque violinist and fiddler David Greenberg) and invited the American tenor Robert Getchell, who cuts a very credible figure as a singer going back to his roots.