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Hour 1
"Mac Allistrum's March" Belfast Harp Orchestra & The Chieftans
(RCA 6149)

GERARD VICTORY: Revel in Reel Time (fr. Three Irish Pictures)
RTÉ Concert Orch/Ó Duinn; (Marco Polo 8.223804)

BILL WHELAN: Dancing at Lughnasa: Prologue
Irish Film Orch/O'Duinn (CBS/Sony 60585)

A. BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rhumba
John Ogden & Brenda Lucas (MCA 25891)

JOAN TRIMBLE: (1915-2000) with pianist & broadcaster Una Hunt
"Buttermilk Point" (reel)
"Gartan Mother's Lullaby"
"The Cows are A-Milking"
Una Hunt/Roy Holmes, pianos (Marco Polo CD 8.225059)

BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rhumba
RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Marco Polo 8.223522)

Sudio Session: Ann Heymann Gaelic wire-strung harp
Studio session for Sounds Irish in MPR's Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Music Studio
ANONYMOUS (14th Cent): Lamento di Tristano
"Signor CAROLLINI": Suite
CAROLAN: Farewell to Music

WILLIAMS: Angela's Ashes, Main Theme (Sony 89009)

MOZART: Piano Concerto #12: III
Finghin Collins w/ members of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
(Claves CD 50-9910)
Young Irish pianist who won the Clara Haskil Competition in 1999

A look at The West Cork Chamber Music Festival w/ Lyric fm's Eamonn Lawlor
SCHUMANN: Fairy Tale Pictures:
John Finucane, cl; Hugh Tinney, piano; Tatjana Masurenko, vla
Rec. live by Lyric at Bantry House

"The Rambles of Bach," De Dannan (Green Linnet 3053)


Hour 2

DULAMAN: Caitríona O'Leary with Dulra
(Virgin 5 45363 2)

Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN: Woodbrook
M. Ó Súilleabháin, piano; Irish Chamber Orchestra (Virgin CD 8 40703 2)
Excerpts from the memoir Woodbrook (Random House Ltd.) read by Niall Carroll

TRADITIONAL: Brian Boru's March
James Galway with harp ensemble/Robles (RCA 7778)

Interview: James Galway

DVORÁK: Cello Concerto; Casals
Czech Phil /Szell (EMI 63498)

Ó CATHAN: Give me your Hand
Galway with the Chieftans (RCA 5798)

TRADITIONAL: Carrickfergus; Galway & Chieftans
(RCA 5798)

Sudio Session: Irish harpist Clíona Doris, originally broadcast live on Ireland's Lyric FM, St. Patrick's Day 2000:
CAROLAN: Fanny Power
PIERNÉ: Impromptu & Caprice
CAROLAN: Farewell to Music

MATTHAIS: Santa Fe Suite; Clíona Doris
(Lyric FM recording from above session)

Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN: "Hup!" (world premiere performance): III
Irish Chamber Orchestra/Worby (recorded live by Lyric FM)

Interview: Caitríona O'Leary on the "lament" tradition in Irish music featuring music from her CD. "I am Stretched on Your Grave"

Táim Sínte ar do Thuma—I am Stretched on Your Grave
Caoineadh na Marbh—"Keen" for the Dead
(new Deutsche Harmonia Mundi CD)

DULAMAN: (w/ Dulra; Virgin 5 45363 2)

TRADITIONAL: Danny Boy (Irish tune fr. County Derry)
The Celtic Tenors (EMI 5 57048 2)

"The Rambles of Bach," De Dannan (Green Linnet 3053)

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