Release Date: 20/03/2020

Séamus Ennis was most noted for his uilleann pipe playing. He is recognised for having preserved almost 2,000 Irish songs and dance-tunes as part of the work he did with the Irish Folklore Commission. Ennis is widely regarded as one of the greatest uilleann pipers of all time.

TRACKLIST

CD 1 - The Pure Drop

1. Two Reels: the Pure Drop/ The Flax in Bloom

2. Slow Air: Ned of the Hill

3. Hornpipes: the Groves Horpipe/ Dwyer's Hornpipe

4. March: O'Sullivan the Great

5. Double Jigs: When Sick, Is It Tea You Want?/ The Humours of Drinagh

6. Slow Air and Slip-Jig: By The River Of Gems / The Rocky Road To Dublin

7. Two Single Jigs: Ask My Father/ Pat Ward's Jig

8. Slow Air: Valencia Harbour

9. Hornpipes: the Standing Abbey / The Stack of Barley

10. Two Reels: the Leitrim Thrush/ Miss Johnson

11. March: The Return from Fingal

12. Two Single Jigs: Chase Me, Charlie / The Dingle Regatta

13. Slow Air: White Connor's Doughter, Nora

14. Two Double Jigs: Slieve Russell / Sixpenny Money

15. Theree Reels: Stay for Another While / I Have No Money / The Cushogue

16. Slow Air: the Brown Thorn

CD 2 - The Fox Chase

1. Two Reels: Music at the Gate / The Pigeon on the Gate

2. Two Double Jigs: the Blooming Meadows / Kitty's Rambles

3. Slow Air: Ned of the Hill

4. Two Single Jigs: Smash the Windows / The Dark Girl in Blue

5. Two Hornpipes: the Derry Hornpipe / The Cuckoo's Nest

6. Song-Tune: the Trip We Took over the Mountain

7. Three Reels: the Merry Sisters / Music in the Forge / Castle Kelly

8. Hornpipe: Johnny Cope

9. Two Reels: the Rainy Day / A Fair Wind

10. Descriptive Piping Piece: the Fox Chase

11. Two Reels: the Braes of Busby / Colonel Frazer

12. Slip-Jig: the Kid on the Mountain