Geoff Wallis
1 July 2001
The conclusion of a critic after trawling through 2000 CDs of Irish traditional music.
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Stephen Graham is an editor at www.musicalcriticism.com and blogs at www.robotsdancingalone.wordpress.com
Three recent recordings of twentieth and twenty-first century Irish orchestral composition reveal a persistent ambition to fuse an Irish musical heritage with European styles of composition.
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