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Faces of the Harp: Celtic & Contemporary ()

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  1. Austin's Planxty
  2. The Tipsy Elk
  3. Dance of the Lambs
  4. Saguaro
  5. Castlebay Scrap/Stuarts Rant
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  1. Austin's Planxty
  2. The Tipsy Elk
  3. Dance of the Lambs
  4. Saguaro
  5. Castlebay Scrap/Stuarts Rant
  6. Dialogue With a Brook
  7. Bennachie Sunrise/Willie's Trip to Toronto
  8. Waterdance/Gay-Feather
  9. Memories of That Isle
  10. Eclipse
  11. Blessing Way
  12. The Mushrooms of Fagernes
  13. Bas Alastruim (The Death of Alasdair) /McAllistruim's March]
  14. The Wedding of Psyche and Eros
  15. Spring
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This collection runs from the engaging to the sublime, but occasionally becomes cloying or claustrophobic. It's harp music of various musical styles and for various kinds of harps, from large concert grand harps to the clarsach, a Gaelic harp strung with brass wires. Some tracks, such as Kim Robertson's "Dance of the Lambs," hint at jazz, while the music of Sileas owes more to folk. Sometimes it can get a little tiresome on the ears, as on "Waterdance/Gay-feather" by Katie LaRaye Waldren and Candace Kreitlow, when it seems ...

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Faces of the Harp: Celtic & Contemporary 1997, Narada

UPC: 083616393421

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