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Bill WHELAN: Dancing at Lunasa - "The Road to Ballybeg"
Irish Film Orchestra/Proinnsias Ó Duinn
Sony 60585

A.J. POTTER: Finnegan's Wake
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Robert Houlihan
Marco Polo 8.225158

Máire Ní Chathasaigh on Irish melodies

TRAD: Jimín mo mhile stór
The Rankins; The Chieftains
"Tears of Stone" RCA 68968

HARTY: An Irish Symphony (III: In the Antrim Hills)
Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson
Chan 8314

Joyce's Voice (reading from Finnegan's Wake)

HARTY: In Ireland
C. Norman, trad. fl Camerata Bariloche of Argentina
Dorian 90250

James Joyce Segment / Sen. David Norris on the musical Joyce


MOORE: The Meeting of the Waters
James Flannery, ten; Janet Harbison, hp
"Dear Harp of My Country" J. Sanders & Co.


BARBER: Two Songs (texts fr. Joyce's Chamber Music)
I: Strings in the Earth and Air: Cheryl Studer
II: In the Dark Pinewood: Thomas Hampson
John Browning, piano
DG 435 867


TRAD: My Lagan Love
Niamh Parsons
"Heart's Desire" Green Linnet 1219


A.J. POTTER: Fantasie Gaelach #1
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland/Robert Houlihan
Marco Polo 8.225158

Paddy Maloney on Bell "last of the great Irish harpers"

CAROLAN: Carolan's Conceärto
Chieftains w/ Belfast Harp Orchestra
"The Celtic Harp" RCA 61490

Remembering Derek Bell w/ Paddy Maloney

CAROLAN: Sir Festus Burke
Derek Bell, neo-Irish harp "Carolan's Receipt"
Claddagh CD 83282

TRAD: An Caitín Bán (The Little White Cat)
Derek Bell, harp, oboes, tíompán
"Derek Bell's Musical Ireland" Shanachie CD 79042

Séan Ó RIADA: Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland)
The Cheiftains
"From the Beginning: The Chieftains 1 to 4" Claddagh/Atlantic 83257

CAROLAN: Farewell to Music
Derek Bell, Irish harp
"Carolan's Receipt" Claddagh 83282

W. B. YEATS: The Lake Isle of Inisfree
Read by the author, rec. 1930's (courtesy of RTÉ archives)

Muriel HERBERT: The Lake Isle of Inisfree
Suzanne Murphy/Welsh National Opera
"There is an Isle" Columbia/Sony 474364

CAROLAN (arr. Bell): Farewell to Music
Derek Bell/Irish Film Orchestra/Gearóid Grant
"Long Journey Home" BMG 68963