Sit Down Beside Me (2006), is a delightful collection of traditional, original, and early music for Celtic harp, recorders and voices. The compositions by Alex Cronin were inspired by memorable places visited while touring with Pastance. The album also includes medieval dance tunes, and traditional Irish, Scottish and English music.
Disc Contents:
1 Wild Mountain Thyme
2 Morena
3 Fireflight
4 Next Market Day
5 The Lonesome Boatman
6 Skye Boat Song
7 O'Carolan's Concerto
8 Row Weel
9 Stella Splendens
10 Sumens
11 Roma Mail
12 Sentomi la formicula
13 Chacona
14 Clement's Squirrel
/Packington's Pound
15 Come Away
16 Puncha
17 Tamlin's Fancy
18 Tamlin
Trad.
Sephardic, 15th c.
A. Cronin
English, trad.
F. Furey
Scottish, trad.
T. O'Carolan (1670 – 1738)
Scottish, trad.
14th c.
J. Dunstable (d.1453)
A. Cronin
Italian, 16th c.
J. Arañez, 1624
English, 17th c.
J. Dowland (1562 – 1626)
Sephardic, 15th c.
A. Cronin
words trad., music A. Cronin
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