Author: Chieftains, The

PartNumber: 090266149025

Release Date: 26-02-1993

Details: Amazon.ca In 1792, Edward Bunting invited his fellow Irish harpists to a festival in Belfast to celebrate the then-endangered art form. Bunting transcribed the tunes played at the festival, and his subsequent music books preserved traditional Celtic harp music for modern-day masters like Derek Bell of the Chieftains. The Chieftains and the Belfast Harp Orchestra met in Belfast for the bicentennial of Bunting's festival and recorded four numbers together two weeks later. The sound of fiddles, flute, pipes, bodhran and dozens of lap harps is at once big and yet strangely delicate. It inspired the Chieftains, who had been recording with American and British pop stars, to return to their strength: new instrumental arrangements of 17th and 18th-century Irish folk songs. No one does that better. --Geoffrey Himes

UPC: 045778048526

EAN: 0090266149025

Model: 090266149025

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood