“There are only two kinds of people in the world,” goes the old saying, “The Irish, and those who wish they were.”
In this hour, music celebrating the Emerald Isle--from Purcell to Beethoven, from John Field to Victor Herbert.
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FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title | Group/Artist | Catalog # | UPC | |
| Harty Irish Symphony | Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomas | Chandos CHAN 8314 | 095115831427 | |
| Great Irish Classics [for “Lilliburlero” | City of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra | MD Music Company | Amazon Download: B003AC85EI | |
| Beethoven Edition Box Vol 17 - Folksong Arrangements | Thomas Allen | Deutsche Grammaphon 453 786-2 | 0028945378626 | |
| Sweet Power of Song | Felicity Lott, Ann Murray (sopranos) | EMI Classics 0077774993029 |
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| Field Complete Piano Music: Rondos | Pietro Spada | Arts 47179-2 | 600554717920 | |
| Passport [for “The Last Rose of Summer”] | Nana Mouskouri | Philips 830 764-2 | 042283 076426 | |
| Moscheles: Piano Concertos, etc., [for Recollections of Ireland] | Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley | Hyperion CDA67430 | 034571174303 | |
| Stanford: Six Irish Rhapsodies | Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley | CHAN 10116 | 095115858127 | |
| Harty: An Irish Symphony | Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomas | CHAN 8314 | 095115831427 | |
| Symphony No. 1, etc [for “In the Faery Hills”] | Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | Naxos 8.553525 | 730099452526 | |
| Grainger Vol. 9 [for “Molly on the Shore”] | City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox | Chandos CHAN 9653 | 095115163825 | |
| Herbert: Eileen | Orchestra of Ireland, David Brophy | New World Records 80733-2 | 093228073321 |
