WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE (1812-1865)

Celtic Fantasies

Rosemary Tuck, piano

Richard Bonynge, piano

The Yellow Hair’d Laddie and Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad

Brilliant Fantasia on My Nanny, O! and My Ain Kind Dearie and Bonnie Dundee

The Gloomy Night is Gathering Fast and The Lass o’ Gowrie

Go Where the Glory Waits Thee and Love’s Young Dream

When Ye Gang Awa’ Jamie

The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls and Fly Not Yet

Desmond’s Song

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms and An Irish Melody

The Blue Bells of Scotland

Fantaisie brillante de Salon pour piano sur des Melodies Ecossaises Roy’s Wife and We’re a’ Noddin’

John Anderson My Jo and Thou Hast Left Me Forever, Jamie

The Weary Pund o’ Tow and There’s Nae Luck About This House

Flow On, Thou Shining River and Nora Creina

Maggie Lauder

Rondino on the Scotch Melody Bonnie Prince Charlie

Kinloch of Kinloch and I’m O’er Young to Marry Yet

Scots Wha Hae

Home Sweet Home – Ballade

Ye Banks and Braes*

Auld Robin Gray and The Boatie Rows

Wallace was, from his youth, steeped in Irish and Scottish traditional music. In 1848, five years after his brilliant successes in New York as a virtuoso pianist, he published his first set of arrangements, others following almost to the year of his death. In these ingenious and lovely works, written for the burgeoning domestic market, he avoids sentimentality, concentrating instead on warmth, wit, a touch of self-quotation, and brilliance. Rosemary Tuck and Richard Bonynge are the world’s leading interpreters of Wallace’s music.

Naxos 8572775