Voices from The Merry Cemetery
Shaun Davey
Celtic World
Tara Music
Released: 1st February 2011
Catalogue Number: TARACD4023
Barcode: 658206402328
Running Time: 38 mins.
You can listen to short samples from some of the tracks on this album using the player below.
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Shaun Davey composed the music here based on 'epitaph poems' from the colourful wooden crosses in The Merry Cemetery in Romania, a World Heritage site.
All rather unique, sung in Romanian but with Irish contributions from top folk musicians and local choir & orchestra.
More joyous than sombre.
1) The Song of Stan Ioan Patras
2) The Song of Stan Ileana
3) The Song of Dimitru Holdis
4) The Song of George Lupatoc
5) The Song of The Drowned Boy
6) The Song of Ilie Persil
7) The Song of Tarasan Ioana
8) The Song of Stan Mihai Patras
9) Song to the Mother-In-Law
10) The Song of Pop Ileana
11) The Song of Toaderu Lui Petrenjel
12) The Song of Stan Anuta Deloae
13) Vanturile Valurile
Shaun Davey composed the music here based on 'epitaph poems' from the colourful wooden crosses in The Merry Cemetery in Romania, a World Heritage site.
All rather unique, sung in Romanian but with Irish contributions from top folk musicians and local choir & orchestra.
More joyous than sombre.
Lineup
The Men's Choir of the Theology Faculty, Sibiu University, Romania
(Director: Pr.Dr.Sorin Dobre)
State Philharmonia, Sibiu
(Concertmaster: Cosmin Fidiles)
Conductor: David Brophy
with
Rita Connolly - Vocals
Liam O'Flynn - Uilleann Pipes & Whistle
Rod McVey - Organ & Keyboard
Ursula Phillipii - Organ
Neil Martin - Cello
Noel Eccles - Percussion
Gerry O'Beirne - Guitar
and members of the mixed choir, Sibiu Orthodox Cathedral