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An Irish Symphony; With the Wild Geese; In Ireland.
Harty: An Irish Symphony; With the Wild Geese; In Ireland. Proinssias O Duinn, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Naxos 8.554732.
How could a album of Irish orchestral music miss that features three of the most popular works of one of Ireland's most celebrated composers, Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941), one of Ireland's most accomplished orchestras, the National Symphony of Ireland, and an Irish conductor with the name of Proinnssias O Duinn? Tie it up in good sound and a budget price and you have the well-known definition of a bargain on your hands.
All the works on the disc are pretty much tone poems, evocations of Irish life in war and play. The leadoff selection is the 18-minute piece "With the Wild Geese" (1910), a varied and moody work depicting an Irish regiment of soldiers fighting with the French in 1745. The second, shorter, piece, "In Ireland" (1918, orchestrated in 1935), describes city ...
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