Danny Boy

Album dedicated to swing music and performed by the instrumental ensemble Delle's Swing Company. The album features a collection of 24 songs, many of them memorable and classic international popular music ('oldies'), beautifully arranged and orchestrated by the group, which has a good swing style. This CD includes original versions of veterans popular Irish themes as 'Danny Boy' or 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary', and others as 'When Johnny Comes Marching On', the immemorial theme 'Camptown Races', the popular gospel song "Michael Row the boat ashore', 'Old McDonald' and so on. Based on compositions that enclose air of charleston, boogie, ragtime, fox, blues, marches, etc. the Delle's Swing Company builds a joyful, rich and varied repertoire that will delight us for a little over an hour of recording.

In this album called “Hope”, created during lockdown, violinist Daniel Hope presents a highly personal, yet distinctive collection of timeless classics by Schubert, Elgar and Pärt, several beloved traditional songs in stunning new instrumental versions and a brand-new arrangement of the inspiring and spiritual Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramírez. “Music has a tremendous power,” says Daniel Hope. “This album is my attempt to send out a ray of hope and to provide people, myself included, with a sense of support and perhaps even consolation.” Well-known favourites from Hope’s childhood such as Amazing Grace and Danny Boy are as integral to this album as Schubert’s Die Nacht and “Nimrod” from Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Several different periods are illuminated in this way, and the same is true of the most disparate styles and musical contexts. Daniel Hope is joined by the Zürcher Kammerorchester as well as prestigious singers like the vocal ensemble Amarcord, baritone Thomas Hampson and jazz-singer Colin Rich.

Celtic Thunder’s ‘Legacy Volume One’ presents many of the best-loved numbers from the group’s nine standing-room-only world tours to-date. Song selections include “Heartland,” the group’s big opening number, along with crowd-pleasing favorites like “Raggle Taggle Gypsy,” “Galway Girl,” and “A Place in the Choir” alongside rousing anthems “Caledonia” and “Ireland’s Call.”