WITCHES/SIOBHAN ASRMSTRON

Ierse muziek is sterk verbonden met de harp. In het wapen van Ierland staat dan ook de harp afgebeeld. De historie gaat terug tot de middeleeuwen, waarin dichters en barden hun liederen en dansen ten gehore brachten. Vanuit de rijke Keltische historie hebben Les Witches en harpiste Siobhan Armstong 18 werken gekozen. Bijzonder is dat hierbij wordt gespeeld op de vroege Ierse harp. De bloemlezing van Ierse, Engelse en Schotse melodieën door de groep Franse muzikanten en de Ierse harpiste voeren je al mijmerend mee naar kleine zaaltjes, pubs en verlaten landstreken. De titel verwijst naar Ulrick Burke, burggraaf van Galway, bezongen in Lord Gallaway's lamentation.

Lord Gallaway’s Delight
An Excellent Collection of Dances & Gaelic Laments
1 She Rose And Leit Me In
2 Counsellor Mc Donoghs Lamentation
3 Miss Hamilton
4 Ye Ragg Set By A Gentlemen (Irish Rag)
5 Mary O’ Neill
6 Jennys Whim, Role The Rumple Sawny
7 Molly Halfpenny (Molly O’hailpin)
8 I Loved Thee Once
9 Da Mihi Manum (Tabair Dom Do Lámh)
10 On The Cold Ground
11 Bellamira
12 Siege Of Limerick
13 Ld Gallaways Lamentation
14 Sr Ulick Burk
15 Limbrick’s Lamentation
16 Lads Of Leight
17 Johney Cock Thy Beaver, A Scotch Tune To A Ground
18 Kings Hornpipe, Newcastle 3
Siobhán Armstrong (Irish harp)
Les Witches

The Witches continue their exploration of the music of the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This series, successfully launched with the disc Nobody’s Jig, sheds new light on songs and dances at the intersection of the art music and folk music repertories. Our team of witches is joined here by Siobhán Armstrong, a talented harpist specialising in the Irish repertory. Together they recount an alternative history of Great Britain and Ireland, following the tunes as one goes up the course of a river, discovering with delight the treasures each of them has in store: spellbinding melodies and vivid titles which, in their evocation of people and places, bring the pages of history back to life.