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Release Date: 15-12-03
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 13235-2
Barcode: 13711323528
Musical Style: Celtic Folk
In 1983, Patrick Ball recorded his first album, The Music of Turlough O'Carolan and brought alive the legendary sound of the wire-strung celtic harp and the compositions of its most celebrated master. Over the next two decades, he recorded seven more tremendously popular celtic harp albums for the Celestial Harmonies/Fortuna Records label, performed thousands of concerts, and wrote and performed two acclaimed solo musical theater pieces in regional repertory theaters throughout the United States. Now, to celebrate twenty years since the release of his first landmark album, Celestial Harmonies presents Music on the Wind: Selected Pieces 1983-2003. Included are 22 tracks drawn from all of Patrick’s albums - the tunes that most enchanted his listeners.
| 1 | The Butterfly | 02:54 |
| 2 | La Valse pour les Petites Jeunes Filles | 02:31 |
| 3 | Blind Mary (Carolan) | 03:32 |
| 4 | Rory Dall's Sister's Lament (Morison) | 03:57 |
| 5 | Bobby Casey's | 03:39 |
| 6 | The Foggy Dew | 03:37 |
| 7 | Carolan's Quarrel with the Landlady (Carolan) | 02:28 |
| 8 | Coilsfield House (Nathaniel Gow) | 03:33 |
| 9 | Mabel Kelly (Carolan) | 04:25 |
| 10 | Castle Kelly | 03:53 |
| 11 | Carolan's Dream (William Connellan) | 04:08 |
| 12 | Eleanor Plunkett (Carolan) | 03:58 |
| 13 | Carolan's Draught (Carolan) | 02:54 |
| 14 | May Morning Dew/Morrison's Jig | 05:13 |
| 15 | Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair | 02:34 |
| 16 | Squire Wood's Lamentation (Carolan) | 03:26 |
| 17 | Morgan Magan (Carolan) | 03:39 |
| 18 | The Twisting of the Rope | 02:29 |
| 19 | Sheebeg Sheemore (Carolan) | 03:02 |
| 20 | Carolan's Cup (Carolan) | 03:36 |
| 21 | Carolan's Farewell to Music (Carolan) | 04:58 |
| 22 | Auld Lang Syne | 03:05 |
“Hauntingly beautiful...a gem of a show.” - Variety
“...soothing, thrilling and haunting....one glorious tune after another.” - The Oakland Tribune
“...ethereally gorgeous...almost a spiritual experience.” - The Courier Journal of Louisville, KY
Patrick Ball is one of the premier celtic harp players in the world and a captivating storyteller in the Celtic tradition. He has recorded nine instrumental and three spoken word albums which have sold well over one-half million copies internationally and won national awards in both the music and spoken word categories.
His critically acclaimed solo musical theater piece, O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music, brings to the stage the legendary life, the turbulent times and the glorious music of Ireland’s most celebrated and beloved musician, Turlough O’Carolan.
Patrick Ball is “a rare artist,” for in playing the ancient, legendary brass-strung harp of Ireland with its crystalline, bell-like voice and in telling the marvelous old tales of wit and enchantment, he not only carries on two of the richest traditions of Celtic culture, but blends them in concert to create “a richly theatrical and hauntingly beautiful” performance.
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