Music, Ireland and the Sixteenth Century, by The Irish Consort dir. Siobhán Armstrong

Music, Ireland and the Sixteenth Century

by The Irish Consort dir. Siobhán Armstrong

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1.	Felix Hyberniam 02:03	info	buy track
2.	Hanc de Britania 02:12	info	buy track
3.	In albis clerici 03:43	info	buy track
4.	A féachain gléis: an ancient Irish harp prelude 01:18	info	buy track
5.	Cumha caoine an Albanaigh: lamentation for the baron of Loughmoe 01:20	info	buy track
6.	A the syghes 00:43	info	buy track
7.	O my hart 00:43	info	buy track
8.	Helas madam 00:35	info	buy track
9.	Farewell, my joy 02:03	info	buy track
10.	A Robyn 01:57	info	buy track
11.	Pastyme with good companye 01:43	info	buy track
12.	Da miche manum: give me your hand 03:21		buy track
13.	Cailín ó shruch Íordáin mé: I am a girl from the Jordan stream 02:43	info	buy track
14.	The countess of Ormond's galliard 00:59	info	buy track
15.	Light o' love / Lightly love ladies 01:50	info	buy track
16.	Calen o custure me: I am a girl from the banks of the Suir 03:10	info	buy track
17.	Irish ho hoane 02:35	info	buy track
18.	Callino casturame 02:04	info	buy track
19.	Trenchmore / Whip of Dunboyne 04:19	info	buy track
20.	Thugamar féin an samhradh linn: we brought the summer with us 02:04	info	buy track
21.	Port Ballangowne 01:18	info	buy track
22.	A port 01:16	info	buy track
23.	A port 01:47	info	buy track
24.	Sir John Packington's Pavin 03:06	info	buy track
25.	Allmane 02:17	info	buy track
26.	Sorrow sorrow stay 03:06	info	buy track
27.	Mr Cormake Pavin 03:32	info	buy track
28.	Mr Cormake Allman 02:31	info	buy track
29.	Though Amarillis daunce in greene 03:31	info	buy track

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A pioneering recording of the music of Gaelic Ireland juxtaposed with that of the invading Tudor English.

Medieval Irish plainchant; vocal and instrumental music of King Henry VIII, Cooper, Cornysh, Holborne, Byrd, Dowland, Scott, MacDermott, Ó Catháin and that of oral tradition, more than one third of which is reconstructed and recorded here for the first time.

Performed by thirteen of Ireland and Europe's best traditional and historical musicians on Irish harp, European harp, Renaissance lute, treble and bass viols, recorders and voices, including Grammy award nominee, John Elwes.

'This recording…offers a nuanced view of a century not much celebrated in Irish musical life…There’s not a weak link in the performing line-up…The nail-plucked, metal-strung Irish harp displays, in the hands of a player such as Armstrong, all the ethereal magic that made it so celebrated in its heyday…this album is not to be missed.' [The Irish Times; one of their top five recommended Classical Music recordings of 2021]

Siobhán Armstrong – Director, late-medieval Irish and European harps
Áine Ní Dhroighneáin – Voice
John Elwes – Tenor
Róisín O'Grady – Soprano
Fredrik Bock – Renaissance lute
Laoise O'Brien – Basset recorder in F
Sylvie Moquet – Treble and bass viols
Sarah Groser – Tenor and bass viols
Reiko Ichise – Bass viol
with
Crux vocal ensemble –
Paul McGough, Eunan McDonald, Timothy Murphy and Andrew Skidmore

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released May 5, 2021

Produced with generous funding from The Arts Council of Ireland's Music Recording Scheme, managed by Music Network, and with the help of generous individual subscribers listed here: www.siobhanarmstrong.com/supporters/

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Siobhán Armstrong Kilkenny, Ireland

Siobhán Armstrong is one of Europe's best-known harpists playing pre-1800 repertory on reconstructions of medieval to baroque harps. This is the debut album of her chamber ensemble, The Irish Consort, founded to explore the sound world of Ireland pre-1800 in the wider context of contemporaneous English and continental music. ... more

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