Sounds of the Season
Maggie Sansone ~ Hammered Dulcimer
The
best all instrumental Celtic-Christmas CD ever! Timeless carols are reborn
with a Celtic spirit in chamber folk arrangements performed on hammered dulcimer
with Celtic harp, recorders, cittern, violin, mandolin, guitar, concertina,
viola da gamba and hand drums. Contains 20 additional bonus tracks of Celtic
music from the Traditions. (58:42 minutes)
"Goes perfectly with the mood of Christmas... Expertly accompanied and with great variety, the instruments ring out clearly and naturally... Well worth looking for!"
- CD Review
Tune List
Listen
to samples of tracks 1 and 11.
-
Deck The Hall / Ding Dong, Merrily On High (2:42) - Wexford Carol (2:25)
- Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming(3:00)
- Gower Wassail (1:53)
- O Come, O Come, Emmanual / Masters In This Hall (3:23)
- Baloo, Lammy (2:24)
- Joy To The World / Here We Come A-Wassailling (3:15)
- Christmas Eve Is Here / Fum, Fum, Fum / Christmas Eve Reel (2:52)
- Il Est Ne' / Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella (2:42)
- What Child Is This (2:05)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (2:50)- Personent Hodie (1:50)
- I Saw Thee Ships (2:15)
- Angels We Have Heard On High (4:05)
- Scotch Mist / Marquis Of Huntley's Strathspey (2:19)
- Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (2:15)
- Miss Patterson / Johnny's Gone To France (3:25)
- Bridget Cruise (3:00)
- Ductia (3:10)
- Parson's Farewell (4:48)
Musicians feature Maggie Sansone on hammered dulcimer with Robin Bullock on guitar, cittern, violin,mandolin; Sue Richards on Celtic Harp; Wendy Morrison on concertina; Linda Lunbeck on recorders; Carolyn Surrick on Viola da gamba; Myron Bretholz on Bodhran and Mike Varas on dombek (medieval drum).
Liner Notes
This recording includes bonus tracks from the Maggie Sansone recording Traditions (MM104).
1. Deck The Hall /
Ding Dong, Merrily On High
Welsh and French
Carols. (Hammered dulcimer, harp)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~
Celtic Harp.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
2. Wexford Carol
Irish, (Hammered,
Dulcimer, Harp, Viola Da Gamba, Recorder)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~
Celtic Harp
Carolyn Surrick ~
Viola Da Gamba
Linda Lunbeck ~
Recorder.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
3. Lo, How a Rose
E'er Blooming
16th Century German.
(Hammered Dulcimer, Synthesizer)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Robin Bullock ~
Synthesizer.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
4. Gower Wassail
Welsh Carol.
(Hammered Dulcimer, Cittern, Synthesizer)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Robin Bullock ~
Cittern Synthesizer.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
5. O Come, O Come,
Emmanual / Masters In This Hall
12th Century Latin
and French Carols. (Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Violas da Gamba, Guitar,
Cittern)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~
Celtic Harp
Robin Bullock ~
Cittern, Guitar
Carolyn Surrick ~
Viola Da Gamba.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
6. Baloo, Lammy
17th Century
Scottish. (Hammered Dulcimer, Harp)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~
Celtic Harp.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
7. Joy To The
World / Here We Come A-Wassailling
English Carols.
(Hammered Dulcimer, Violin, Mandolin, Cittern, Bass)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Producer: Maggie
Sansone
8. Christmas Eve
Is Here / Fum, Fum, Fum / Christmas Eve Reel
English and Spanish
Carols, Irish Reel. (Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Cittern, Bodhran)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~
Celtic Harp
Robin Bullock ~ Cittern
Myron Bretholz ~
Bodhrán.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
9. Il Est Ne' /
Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
French Carols.
(Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Violin, Mandolin)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~
Celtic Harp
Robin Bullock ~ Violin, Mandolin.
Producer: Maggie
Sansone
10. What Child Is
This ( Greensleeves)
English Carol with
Variations From "Greensleeves To A Ground." The Division
Flute, 1706. (Hammered Dulcimer)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
11. God Rest Ye
Merry, Gentlemen
English Carol
(Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Viola Da Gamba, Cittern, Bodhran)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~ Celtic Harp;
Robin Bullock
~ Cittern
Carolyn Surrick ~
Viola Da Gamba
Myron Bretholz ~ Bodhrán.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
12. Personent
Hodie
14th Century German.
(Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Viola Da Gamba, Finger Cymbals)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~ Celtic Harp
Carolyn
Surrick ~ Viola Da Gamba,
Linda Lunbeck
~ Finger Cymbals.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
13. I Saw Thee
Ships
English Carol and
Variation. (Hammered Dulcimer , Concertina. Violin, Cittern)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Robin Bullock ~
Cittern, Violin.
Wendy Morrison ~ Concertina.
Producer: Maggie
Sansone
14. Angels We Have
Heard On High
French Carol.
(Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Viola Da Gamba, Recorder)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Sue Richards ~
Celtic Harp
Carolyn Surrick ~ Viola Da Gamba
Linda Lunbeck ~
Recorder
Producer: Maggie Sansone
15. Scotch Mist /
Marquis Of Huntley's Strathspey
Scottish
Strathspeys. (Hammered Dulcimer, Harp)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer,
Sue Richards ~ Celtic Harp
Producer: Maggie
Sansone
16. Abbots Bromley
Horn Dance
Ancient Ritual Dance
From Abbots Bromley, Straffordshire, England. (Hammered Dulcimer,
Concertina, Recorder, Viola Da Gamba, Finger Cymbals)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer,
Carolyn Surrick ~ Viola Da Gamba
Linda
Lunbeck – Recorder
Wendy Morrison ~ Concertina, Finger
Cymbals.
Producer: Maggie Sansone
17. Miss Patterson
/ Johnny's Gone To France
Irish Reels.
(Hammered Dulcimer, Guitar, Bodhran)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer
Robin Bullock ~ Guitar,
Myron Bretholz
~ Bodhrán.
Producer: Maggie
Sansone
18. Bridget Cruise
The Second and Third
Air by 18th Century Irish Harpist Turlough O'Carolan. (Hammered
Dulcimer)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer.Producer: Maggie Sansone
19. Ductia
A Medieval Tune From
the 13th Century. (Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Dombek)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer,Sue Richards ~ Celtic Harp,Mike Vargas ~
Dombek.
Producer: Maggie
Sansone
20. Parson's
Farewell
English Country
Dance Tune From The English Dancing Master. (Hammered Dulcimer, Harp)
Artists:
Maggie
Sansone ~ Hammered dulcimer,Sue Richards ~ Celtic Harp, Producer:
Maggie Sansone

