The Fairie Round - Song List


Chanter's Tune (trad. Irish) 5:42

  • Shelley Phillips -- oboe, flute, piccolo, ocarina, harp
  • Barry Phillips -- cello, percussion
  • William Coulter -- guitar
  • Neal Hellman -- mountain dulcimer

The Fairie-Round (Anthony Holborne) 2:27

  • Shelley Phillips -- oboe, English horn, wood whistle
  • Melanie Lepper -- bassoon
  • Barry Phillips -- percussion

The Water Is Wide (trad. English) 4:05

  • Shelley Phillips -- English horn, flute, harp
  • Barry Phillips -- cello
  • William Coulter -- guitar

English Dance (13th century) 1:41

  • Shelley Phillips -- wood whistle, tin whistle, oboe, mandolino, mountain
  • dulcimer, wooden clapper spoons
  • Barry Phillips -- percussion

The Clergyman's Lament (attr. Turlough O'Carolan) 3:45

  • Shelley Phillips -- harp, English horn
  • Barry Phillips -- cello

The Ashgrove (trad. Welsh) 3:49

  • Shelley Phillips -- oboe, flute, tin whistle
  • Barry Phillips -- cello
  • William Coulter -- guitar
  • Robin Petrie -- hammered dulcimer

Pastorale (Gabriel Pierné) 3:36

  • Shelley Phillips -- oboe, English horn, bell
  • Esther Landau -- flute
  • Melanie Lepper -- bassoon
  • Liane Sharp -- French horn

Kopanitsa/Trugnal Momko (trad. Balkan) 3:55

  • Shelley Phillips -- oboe
  • Barry Phillips -- cello, percussion
  • Ruth Hunter -- tambura, accordion
  • Anne Cleveland -- flute

Planxty Burke/Planxty Drew (Turlough O'Carolan) 4:33

  • Shelley Phillips -- harp, oboe, English horn
  • Barry Phillips -- cello, percussion
  • William Coulter -- guitar
  • Lars Johannesson -- Baroque flute

Bourrée/Hornpipe (G.F. Handel) 1:59

  • Shelley Phillips -- oboe, English horn
  • Melanie Lepper -- bassoon

Skye Boat Song (trad. Scottish) 3:37

  • Shelley Phillips -- English horn, harp
  • Barry Phillips -- cello
  • William Coulter -- guitar

Come Again (John Dowland) 3:02

  • Shelley Phillips -- sopranino recorder, harp, flute

Recorded by Bear Creek Productions at Magic Sound, Santa Cruz, California, March and April, 1990
Digital editing by Diaxis
Produced, engineered and mixed by Justin Mayer

California Indian percussion on Chanter's Tune made by Margaret Mathewson
Amazing wooden clapper spoons on English Dance made by Jonothan Slack
Cello arrangements by Barry Phillips
Graphics by Michael Rugg
Cover painting: La Ghirlandata by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) courtesy Bridgeman Art Library, London
Artist's photo by Charles Kennard

Thanks to: Neal Hellman and Gourd Music without whom this never would have been made; Barry, Bill and Justin for all the great ideas; Carol for my home away from home while recording; Karuna for getting me a bell tree; and Mer and DD. Hi newt.

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