March 13, 2000: Irish Connections

This program includes a number of selections with Irish accents, in observance of soon-to-be St. Patrick's Day (March 17).


Fanfare I (CD: Praise the Lord) (Gerre Hancock, organ) Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic dances, op. 45 (CD: Rachmaninoff: (Bohuslav-Martinu-Philharmonie Toteninsel / Zlin; Peter Lücker) Sinfonische Tänze) Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen fantasy, op. 25 (CD: Homage to (Rachel Barton, violin; Pablo de Sarasate) Samuel Sanders, piano) Percy Grainger: Over the hills and far away (CD: Grainger (Percy Grainger & Lotta Mills Plays Grainger) Hough, reproducing piano)
A Lent prose (CD: Passiontide (Jonathan Arnold, bass; Connor at St. Paul's) Burrowes, Edward Burrowes, trebles; Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral; John Scott) Gregorio Allegri: Miserere (CD: Allegri: Miserere (Roy Goodman, treble; Choir of King's / Palestrina: Stabat College, Cambridge; David Willcocks) Mater) I bind unto myself today (arr. Stanford) (LP: Belfast (Choir of Belfast Cathedral; Cathedral Choir) Jonathan Gregory) Londonderry air (LP: Belfast (Choir of Belfast Cathedral; Cathedral Choir) Jonathan Gregory) John Rutter: A Gaelic blessing (CD: Rutter: Requiem) (Polyphony; Bournemouth Sinfonietta; Stephen Layton) Johann Strauss I: Waltzes (CD: Tivoli-Rutsch-Walzer, op. 39 Walzer-Polks-Gallope) Kettenbrücke-Walzer, op. 4 (Ensemble Wien) The wearing of the green (CD: John McCormack: (John McCormack, tenor) Irish Songs -- The Early Years) My wild Irish rose (CD: John McCormack: (John McCormack) Irish Songs -- The Early Years) Irish songs (CD: The Last O the sight entrancing (arr. Britten) Rose of Summer) The Bard of Armagh (arr. Hughes) (Ann Murray, mezzo soprano; Graham Johnson, piano) Turlough O'Carolan: Carrollan's devotion (Miss (CD: Carolan's Harp) Featherstone) (Catrióna O'Leary; The Harp Consort)
Henry Cowell: Rondo (CD: From the Steeples (London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble) and the Mountains) Henry Cowell: Old American Country Set (CD: Henry Cowell: (Manhattan Chamber Orchestra; Persian Set) Richard Auldon Clark) Samuel Barber: Mutations from Bach (CD: From the Steeples (London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble) and the Mountains) J. S. Bach: Largo from the Harpsichord Concerto in F (CD: The Swingle minor Singers: Anyone (The Swingle Singers; Ward Swingle) for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?) J. S. Bach: Wachet auf (arr. Stokowski) (CD: Stokowski (The Philadelphia Orchestra; Transcriptions) Wolfgang Sawallisch) Charles Villiers Stanford: Sonata Celtica (CD: Organ Music from III. St. Patrick's breastplate the Island of Ireland) (John Dexter, organ) Jan Bender: Variations on "Slane" (CD: Rondo: Works for (Robert Murray, violin; Violin & Organ; Vol. Ardyth Lohuis, organ) 2) Mark Blatchly (arr.): Cockles and mussels (CD: Golden favourites (Boys of St. Paul's Cathedral) from St. Paul's Cathedral)
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