It was composed in answer to a challenge issued to or by the Italian composer Geminiani ( he is buried in The Cemetery of Christ church in Dublin) The challenge was, who could compose a piece of music spontaneously . This was Carolans effort never could what Geminiani composed. This piece is also known as Fanny Power.
@digitalis7 I do not know what triplets and fluorishing you really need, but look for the same piece O'Carolan's Concerto, played by Derek Bell and the Chieftains. I dare say Derek was the greatest Irish harp player of the last century..!
Very nice - not the easiest piece to play. The B music (ie the second part) is different in many different sources. Sullivan's book is generally reckoned to be the most accurate, and that is very different from what's played here. But I have heard this version played all over the place too. The Dustys are lovely harps - I love my Ravenna 34. Nice pace to this performance.
this is such a lovely arrangement, does anyone know where I might find this arrangement or similar? i already play the tune, just looking for a nice left hand
There is no official sheet music to this tune. Nobody even knows how Carolan tuned his harp. All we have are the supposed melody lines, in most cases brought forward by fiddlers and the occasional harpsichord/clavichord players. Bach did an arrangement of four of Carolan's pieces. Do you think his arrangements sounded anything like Carolan's? Also, do you think Carolan played his music the same way each and every time? I'd be willing to bet he did plenty of improvisation.
Very nice. But I spend too much time scouring You Tube for the O'Carolan piece Sean Jones (the 'tailor). Anyone able to download it for us all to enjoy - my personal favorite O'Carolan work, and strangely overlooked. I do hear faint strains of the tune in this piece here though.
please what brand of harp is this played on? I am a budding blind harper myself. What a beautiful arrangement. Mr Carolan would be proud indeed :) thank you so much for sharing. He is my inspiration
Hi, I can't tell you the model number, but I am 100% certain that the brand of harp she's playing is Dusty Strings. It's one of the larger solid wood models and is not a Ravenna or Boulevard. I hope this helps you.
Tammy Willcox thank you so so much. I'm going through a bit of a dark time atm, and have decided to take up the harp to fill my free time. I'm excited. Thank you so much, and I'm so sorry I'm only reading and replying to this now.
Who are the two guys sitting in the chairs on stage? This is beautiful. They look stern like they're judges. If they are, I hope gave this young lady very high marks. She's great and so is Carolan's Concerto. It's one of the first pieces I learned when I started playing the mandolin - easy to play and delightful.
I'm reading the sheet music to the folk tune along with this and she's embellishing like crazy. Still sounds pretty, but yeah, she's embellishing like crazy.
Still is typical for harp with any folk tune, especially O'Carolan. The melody line is all that was originally published, in 1747, by his son. The left hand is implied. There is, of course, logic to it. It's all the same chord, but no chords were indicated. I use much more artistic license in some of my interpretations, even going to suspensions and such. It still works. He was the Master.
Irish traditional music does not have set official "sheets". More or less only melodies which are interpreted and ornamented as the player wishes, within certain general style patterns. To write this as a criticism is missing the point entirely and shows great ignorance, rather like criticising Picasso because his faces were not lifelike. You shouldn't be playing Irish music if you don't have this very basic entry-level understanding.
Certainly anything written down as a score would have been by someone listening to the music. Carolan could not have written it down himself, obviously. CelticStrings version, whether it follows the original or not, is *evocative.* That was what Turloch O'Carolan was all about. His music evoked emotions. You don't hold up a wedding or a funeral for someone who's going to play a set piece, and a mediocre player at that. His compositions were magical. That's why he's a national treasure.
That's not the proper version. I know that there are probably a million different versions to the song but the actual version is alot different. I probably think that I say that because I'm actually Irish and have played the harp since I was 4 but still, it's a lot different from the original.
@AnyMusicalWillDo The "original" is 300 years old... very unlikely the "original" survives as Turlough played it. Let's let other musicians give their takes on it, eh?
BTW, I like the guitar version of this piece as arranged by Franco Morone. Look it up on YT as played by Dracapally using Morone's arrangement. She plays Part B only once through but I can tell you that second part, on guitar in any case, is a b*tch!!
My wedding recessional was this played by the great Sylvia Woods.
Will always be part of me.
Truly Angelic playing - Turlough will be dancing around up there.Never heard this performed so convincingly. Thanks you young Harper.
I just want to thank the engineer who placed a U87 on the harp the fully capture the essence of this gorgeous performance.
Turlough O’Carolan was a 17th century blind harpist and composer who wrote one of the most haunting pieces of Irish music, “O’Carolan’s Concerto.”
It was a response to a challenge issued to and accepted by the Italian composer Geminiani as to who could compose the quicker and better.
Jack Fletcher well he won. Just beautiful, isn't it? Makes my heart fill with pride and joy to listen to this beautiful music
UnsungHero71 Its breathtaking
@Noel Ryan Gemiani Is buried in Christ church in Dublin.
Now that's what Turlough had in mind when he composed this beautiful concerto!!
It was composed in answer to a challenge issued to or by the Italian composer Geminiani ( he is buried in The Cemetery of Christ church in Dublin) The challenge was, who could compose a piece of music spontaneously . This was Carolans effort never could what Geminiani composed. This piece is also known as Fanny Power.
@@jackfletcher1000 Fanny power is a different song
@@Lochlannach661 Was not aware the Carolan wrote songs but thanks for the correction.
Beautifully played and a wonderful interpretation. Thank you.
wow.. that's really wonderful.
I love the dusty strings sound!
Excellent!!
@digitalis7 I do not know what triplets and fluorishing you really need, but look for the same piece O'Carolan's Concerto, played by Derek Bell and the Chieftains. I dare say Derek was the greatest Irish harp player of the last century..!
I am not so sure! I am 320 years old and this is pretty much how I remember it being played! LOL!
Beautiful!! Well done
That's really beautiful...Mark ( Sound Solutions)
very lovely, job, one of my favorite pieces in the world, thank you for sharing.
very good playing! thanks for sharing with us!
This is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Happy harping,
Mary
Wonderful playing! 💕
Beautiful performance!
An excellent job well done ,God bless
Beautiful.
A brilliant tune
Superb!
Perfect.
Very nice - not the easiest piece to play. The B music (ie the second part) is different in many different sources. Sullivan's book is generally reckoned to be the most accurate, and that is very different from what's played here. But I have heard this version played all over the place too. The Dustys are lovely harps - I love my Ravenna 34. Nice pace to this performance.
I was just about to ask about that other B part. I downloaded a transcription of it (from where, I can't remember).
Woww!
well done!
this is such a lovely arrangement, does anyone know where I might find this arrangement or similar? i already play the tune, just looking for a nice left hand
There is no official sheet music to this tune. Nobody even knows how Carolan tuned his harp. All we have are the supposed melody lines, in most cases brought forward by fiddlers and the occasional harpsichord/clavichord players. Bach did an arrangement of four of Carolan's pieces. Do you think his arrangements sounded anything like Carolan's? Also, do you think Carolan played his music the same way each and every time? I'd be willing to bet he did plenty of improvisation.
What yahoos disliked this? Trolls for sure. Very well played!
often people accidentally press the dislike , without realising it. or perhaps they miss the like button
And it's also the 'inspection' or 'pass interview' March of the army of the Republic of Ireland.
You play it in an appropriate baroque style.
Very nice. But I spend too much time scouring You Tube for the O'Carolan piece Sean Jones (the 'tailor). Anyone able to download it for us all to enjoy - my personal favorite O'Carolan work, and strangely overlooked. I do hear faint strains of the tune in this piece here though.
please what brand of harp is this played on? I am a budding blind harper myself. What a beautiful arrangement. Mr Carolan would be proud indeed :) thank you so much for sharing. He is my inspiration
Hi, I can't tell you the model number, but I am 100% certain that the brand of harp she's playing is Dusty Strings. It's one of the larger solid wood models and is not a Ravenna or Boulevard. I hope this helps you.
Kerie Doyle It's identical to my harp...Dusty Strings 36 string, bubinga wood. Made in Seattle, WA by Ray Moors.
Tammy Willcox thank you so so much. I'm going through a bit of a dark time atm, and have decided to take up the harp to fill my free time. I'm excited. Thank you so much, and I'm so sorry I'm only reading and replying to this now.
Jamie Bitzenhofer Thank you
Can I ask? Where can I find the music sheet of this consert?
I would like to buy it too, but nobody answers :-/
Who are the two guys sitting in the chairs on stage? This is beautiful. They look stern like they're judges. If they are, I hope gave this young lady very high marks. She's great and so is Carolan's Concerto. It's one of the first pieces I learned when I started playing the mandolin - easy to play and delightful.
I'm reading the sheet music to the folk tune along with this and she's embellishing like crazy.
Still sounds pretty, but yeah, she's embellishing like crazy.
Still is typical for harp with any folk tune, especially O'Carolan. The melody line is all that was originally published, in 1747, by his son. The left hand is implied. There is, of course, logic to it. It's all the same chord, but no chords were indicated. I use much more artistic license in some of my interpretations, even going to suspensions and such. It still works. He was the Master.
Irish traditional music does not have set official "sheets". More or less only melodies which are interpreted and ornamented as the player wishes, within certain general style patterns. To write this as a criticism is missing the point entirely and shows great ignorance, rather like criticising Picasso because his faces were not lifelike. You shouldn't be playing Irish music if you don't have this very basic entry-level understanding.
Terrific!
Sir, 'bhfuil Gaeilig agat?....
Nicely played; you must have been tired when through: I am tired playing it once through. are you using Derek Bell's arrangement.
Pleaaaase someone to help me finding which arrangement it is? :-) thank you :-)
I like this arrangement! Is it from Janet Witman??
Certainly anything written down as a score would have been by someone listening to the music. Carolan could not have written it down himself, obviously. CelticStrings version, whether it follows the original or not, is *evocative.* That was what Turloch O'Carolan was all about. His music evoked emotions. You don't hold up a wedding or a funeral for someone who's going to play a set piece, and a mediocre player at that. His compositions were magical. That's why he's a national treasure.
His daughter Siobhan married Captain Sudley and his son published a collection of Carolan's tunes in 1747.
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Erennn😋
Looks like a dusty strings harp. Lovely!
That's not the proper version. I know that there are probably a million different versions to the song but the actual version is alot different. I probably think that I say that because I'm actually Irish and have played the harp since I was 4 but still, it's a lot different from the original.
@AnyMusicalWillDo The "original" is 300 years old... very unlikely the "original" survives as Turlough played it. Let's let other musicians give their takes on it, eh?
Anyone here for school music
BTW, I like the guitar version of this piece as arranged by Franco Morone. Look it up on YT as played by Dracapally using Morone's arrangement. She plays Part B only once through but I can tell you that second part, on guitar in any case, is a b*tch!!
lol funny, why people say BravO to a girl? Shoudl say BravA!! To a female is bravA! not bravO!!...soo
REALLY BRAVA!!!! love this music!
Ceol ar fheabhas ar fad
needs bass and drums
You play it in an appropriate baroque style.