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Olde Irish Jigs & Reels Ref: CDG1175

12 tracks 66 min
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Sparkling performances from some of our leading folk musicians in medleys of great Irish tunes. Feet will be tapping within seconds, in a powerful evocation of the spirit of Ireland expressed through its music.

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Folk Music of England Ref: CDG1016

19 tracks
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Favourite traditional songs in superb arrangements, performed by leading musicians in their field. A full range of instruments is used, from fiddles to accordions and whistle.

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Folk Music of Ireland Ref: CDG1017

19 tracks
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This album and its companion volumes present some of Britain's finest folk musicians performing a selection of songs and instrumental music from the British folk tradition.

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Folk Music of Ireland

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Folk Music of Scotland Ref: CDG1018

19 tracks
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This album and its companion volumes present some of Britain's finest folk musicians performing a selection of songs and instrumental music from the British folk tradition.

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Folk Music of Scotland

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Folk Music of Wales Ref: CDG1019

22 tracks
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This album and its companion volumes present some of Britain's finest folk musicians performing a selection of songs and instrumental music from the British folk tradition.

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English Country Dances

Ref: CDG1246

Cheery English dances from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in vibrant arrangements from The Broadside Band. From the Long Dance to the Country Dance, the band's shawms and sackbuts, recorders and hurdy-gurdies present a series of tuneful, rhythmic pavanes and galliards, branles and canarios, all of which are explained in the detailed booklet.

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Folk Music of the British Isles - 4 CD set

Ref: CD220

79 tracks Around 4 hours of music
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A rich collection of traditional folk music from the four corners of the British Isles sung by leading folk musicians. Foot-tapping tunes and rhythms, songs and cheery dances, tales of magic and mystery - this collection will keep you smiling long after the music has ended!

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Folk Music of the British Isles - 4 CD set

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Trafalgar Ref: CDG1118

12 tracks 62 min
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A Celebration of Horatio, Lord Nelson

'England expects that every man will do his duty'. Robust and hearty music for a national hero taken from the sea songs and concert hall favourites of Admiral Lord Nelson's time, specially created for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

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Trafalgar

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Celtic Airs & Ballads Ref: CDG1047

17 tracks 63 min
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Haunting songs of love and life, of lands and seas, of heroes and saints, full of the mystery of our Celtic past. With authentic instruments and the voices of the greatest folk musicians in the British Isles.

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Celtic Dreams Ref: CDG1040

23 tracks 61 min
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Haunting songs of love and longing

Ancient melodies which tell of the landscape and the past, of heroic deeds and love lost and gained, expressed through music for harp. Aeolian pipe, small drum and the music of the sea itself. An atmospheric and very relaxing labum.

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Westlin Winds - Music for the Highlands and Islands - 2CDs Ref: CD216

29 tracks - around 2 hours of music

A relaxing musical tour of the highlands and islands with distant pipes and harps, the music of the sea and waves themselves and the voices of monks chanting in a quiet kirk.

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Westlin Winds - Music for the Highlands and Islands - 2CDs

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My Heart's in the Highlands - The Scottish Musical Spirit - 2CDs Ref: CD217

47 tracks - around 2 hours of music

Inspiring music, from the beautiful sounds of the clarsach and some moving and breathtaking 'piobaireachd', played by one of Scotland's leading pipers, to the sounds of monks in an ancient Scottish abbey.

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My Heart's in the Highlands - The Scottish Musical Spirit - 2CDs

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Scotland the Brave - A Pageant of Celtic Music - 2CDs Ref: CD218

O, wail for the mighty in battle,
Loud lift ye the Coronach strain;
For Hector, the Hero, of deathless fame,
Will never come back again.

The landscapes of Scotland, its myths, legends and heroes, are recalled and lamented in two atmospheric programmes of powerful music for pipes, clarsach, voices and instruments.

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Scotland the Brave - A Pageant of Celtic Music - 2CDs

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Time & Tide Ref: CDG1153

8 tracks 65 min
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Calming Classics

A day by the sea; but there's not a kiss-me-quick hat or stick of rock in sight! Instead, imagine sitting on the cliff top or harbour wall listening to the ebb and flow of the sea as captured in this album of tranquil music, all of which takes the ocean as its theme, or which flows elegantly like the sounds of the waves themselves!

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Time & Tide

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Sea Shanties Ref: CDG1024

26 tracks 65 min
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Rousing songs from the age of sail

A cheerful collection of songs from the sea for the armchair sailor. Sea shanties were often sung to help with the repetitive and back breaking tasks neede to sail a big ship - good rhythms, good tunes and good words.

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Sea Shanties

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Spirit of Discovery Ref: CDG1054

6 tracks 60 min
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Music for the armchair traveller

A programme of music with a nautical theme, and of travelling the world. Mystical tales of the sea, stories of derring-do, of voyages calm or otherwise, of billowing waves and the sea spray, the tang of the salt air

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