This list is not complete; it is a personal selection of the kind of music I am interested in, i.e. old Irish and Scottish music played in historical style on the ancient type of clarsach or Irish harp, with metal wire strings. If you think I have missed out anyone important please do let me know.

Brendan Ring
Cumha
2014
This is just a lovely solo recording of early Gaelic harp music.
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Vicente La Camera Mariño
The Toutching of the String
2014
Music from the Scottish lute books through to Carolan, played on a replica Trinity College harp and also a big Rennaisance gut-strung harp.
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Simon Chadwick
Tarbh
EGH 3, 2013
five large-scale ceòl mór compositions attributed to Raghnall Mac Ailein Òig, in new adaptions for solo clarsach.
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Les Witches
Lord Gallaway’s Delight
Alpha 534, 2013
The French early music group Les Witches invited Siobhán Armstrong to come over and join them as guest artist for their Irish programme.
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Shipwrecked
Heresy 001, 2012
Siobhán Armstrong plays early Irish harp on some tracks of this curious CD of 16th century Irish and Spanish music.

Violaine Mayor
Gens Cambrina
VM03, 2012
Early Welsh music from the Robert ap Huw manuscript to plainchant, with additions of Scottish, Irish and traditional Breton material. Violaine is joined by members of her family singing and playing other instruments.
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Simon Chadwick
Old Gaelic Laments
EGH 2, 2012
16th and 17th century Irish and Scottish clarsach music and poetry.
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Paul Dooley
The Harper's Fancy
PDCD003, 2010
Traditional Irish music from the master of jigs and reels on the early Irish harp.
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Patrick Ball
The Wood of Morois
White Strand Records, 2010
The latest record from American Celtic harper Patrick Ball presents a “selection of Irish, Breton and Medieval music”

Ordering instructions: I carry a number of Gaelic harp books and CDs in stock at the Emporium. Click on the link to order, or call or email me to discuss what you want - I am happy to try and source out-of-print or hard-to-find items not currently in stock. Go to the Emporium homepage for more details.

I also will buy secondhand copies of many of these items. Contact me with details of what you have and we can discuss terms.

Simon Chadwick