O'Stravaganza - Vivaldi in Ireland
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O'Stravaganza - Vivaldi in Ireland is an album by Hughes de Courson
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De Courson's work is a kind of World fusion music. There are only a handful of such arrangers who combine folk music and classical music in a similar vein. Other examples are Mark O'Connor
("The Fiddle Concerto
" 1995), Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
("Between Worlds", 1995) and Shaun Davey
("The Pilgrim" 1984).
His aim was to create a fusion of Irish music and Baroque music. It is mostly instrumental but there is one song "Lulaby for Diarmid" based on Gaelic poems from the Ossianic cycle, sung in Irish. The tune is adapted from Vivaldi's "Nisi Dominus cum dederit". The tracks with uillann pipes are the only ones in which the Irish element dominates over the baroque elements.
Hughes de Courson
-The Malicorne years:Hughes de Courson is best known for being on all of the albums by Malicorne. He played electric guitar, bass, crumhorn, percussion, recorder, positive organ, piano, elka, synthesiser, glockenspiel and Hammond organ. He was producer on some of the albums. His most original track...
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De Courson's work is a kind of World fusion music. There are only a handful of such arrangers who combine folk music and classical music in a similar vein. Other examples are Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz, country and classical violinist fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition...
("The Fiddle Concerto
The Fiddle Concerto
The Fiddle Concerto is an album by Mark O'Connor. It contains two pieces written by O'Connor, the first of which is a violin concerto in American fiddle style, commissioned by the Santa Fe Symphony and premiered in 1993...
" 1995), Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is an Irish musician. As a pianist, composer, recording artist and academic, he holds the Professorship of Music at the Irish World Music Centre of the University of Limerick...
("Between Worlds", 1995) and Shaun Davey
Shaun Davey
- Early years :Shaun Davey was born in Belfast in 1948. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in the history of Art in 1971. He then took a master's degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In the late 1970s, he made his first recording, "Davey and Morris," with Donal Lunny and others...
("The Pilgrim" 1984).
His aim was to create a fusion of Irish music and Baroque music. It is mostly instrumental but there is one song "Lulaby for Diarmid" based on Gaelic poems from the Ossianic cycle, sung in Irish. The tune is adapted from Vivaldi's "Nisi Dominus cum dederit". The tracks with uillann pipes are the only ones in which the Irish element dominates over the baroque elements.
Track listing
- O'Stravaganza
- Damhsaigh
- Berceuse de Grainne pour Diarmait
- Estro-Reel
- Il Sonno
- Ceol cuaine
- Il Duello
- A Clairseach
- Jig Della Inquietude
- Erlin sonata
- Bunch of rushes
- Am cain
- Mister Bethag and the Princess
- La Ciaconna Rossa
Credits
- "Le Orfanelle della Poeta" (Baroque ensemble)
- Nollaig Casey - fiddle
- Emer Maycock - Irish flutes, Uilleann pipes
- Ronan Le Bars - Uilleann pipes
- Youenn Le Berre - Low whistles
- Donal Siggins - bouzouki, mandolin
- Myrdhin - Celtic harp
- Isabelle Oliver - Celtic harp
- Breda Maycock - singing
- Suzan Hamilton - singer