Les musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch & Robert Getchell - The High Road to Kilkenny: Gaelic Songs and Dances of the 17th & 18th Centuries (2016) [Hi-Res]

After the success of For ever Fortune, early music from Scotland, François Lazarevitch continues his exploration of the ‘Celtic’ repertories with a new programme devoted to early Irish music. This repertory of old airs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries consists of dances, songs in Gaelic and varied instrumental pieces: they tell tales of wars, of love, of strong drink and tobacco, of children and bards. A leading specialist in the flute and bagpipe families, François Lazarevitch opens out new horizons of colours and sounds. He has gathered around him here a number of distinguished performers of early music (including the fabulous Baroque violinist and fiddler David Greenberg) and invited the American tenor Robert Getchell, who cuts a very credible figure as a singer going back to his roots.

Robert Getchell, tenor
David Greenberg, violin
Bill Taylor, clàrsach (Irish harp)
Marie Bournisien, baroque harp
Lucile Boulanger, viola da gamba
Bruno Helstroffer, theorbo, lute
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien
Francois Lazarevitch, direction, transverse flute, tin whistle, smallpipes