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Celtic Voyages

Choral songs from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Appalachia


The Magpie Consort, with Spencer Elliott (guitar & banjo)


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(Click on selected songs for mp3 extracts)


1. Tha mi sgìth (Pulling the bracken) - trad. Gaelic arr. Peter Hill                
2. Gràdh geal mo chridhe (The bright love of my heart) - trad. Gaelic arr. Sheena Phillips                
3. My love is like a red, red rose - trad. Scottish arr. Michael Buck                 
4. Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon - trad. Scottish arr. Sheena Phillips             
5. Màiri Bhàn’s Wedding - Gaelic song arr. Sheena Phillips                     
6. The young man’s dream - trad. Irish arr. Sheena Phillips & Spencer Elliott (instr.)       
7. She moved through the fair - Irish ballad arr. Timothy Takach            
8. Londonderry air - Irish tune arr. Percy Grainger                           
9. St Patrick’s breastplate - Irish tunes arr. C V Stanford and R V Williams               
10. Siúil a rúin (Shule aroon) - trad. Irish arr. Michael McGlynn                
11. Barb’ry Ellen - British Isles folk ballad, arr. Stephen Hatfield              
12. The Star of the County Down - Irish ballad, arr. Howard Goodall      
13. Suo gân (Lullaby) - trad. Welsh arr. Sheena Phillips (instr.)                 
14. Cariad pur ffyddlon - (Faithful true love)  Welsh medley arr. Gareth Glyn          
15. Cwm Rhondda - Welsh hymn tune by John Hughes arr. Andrew Hawryluk            
16. Down by the salley gardens - trad. Irish arr. Frances Cockburn       
17. Wayfaring stranger - Appalachian folk hymn arr. Alice Parker                 
18. Gloria - from The World Beloved: a Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett  
19. Down to the river to pray - trad. Appalachian arr. Sheldon Curry      
20. Black is the color - trad. Appalachian arr. Norman Luboff                 
21. Mist-covered mountains - trad. Scottish / northern English            
22. A Phiutrag ‘s a phiuthar
(Little sister) - trad. Gaelic arr. Sheena Phillips    

           

Total playing time c. 66 minutes

 

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