Description
Bill Whelan – Riverdance (Music From The Show) - 10th Anniversary Edition / Includes Newly Recorded Music / Universal Records Audio CD 2005 / 988 1298
UPC 602498812983
Bill Whelan (born 22 May 1950 in Limerick, Ireland) is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze for Irish dancing and Celtic music and also won him a Grammy. It was released as a single in the UK in 1994, credited to "Bill Whelan and Anúna featuring the RTÉ Concert Orchestra". It reached number 9 and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks. The album of the same title reached number 31 in the album charts in 1995.
| Label: | Universal Records – 988 1298 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: | 2005 |
| Genre: | Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen |
| Style: | Musical, Folk, Celtic |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Reel Around The Sun | 8:42 | |
| 2 | The Heart's Cry | 2:26 | |
| 3 | The Countess Cathleen / Women Of The Sidhe |
5:44 | |
| 4 | Caoineadh Cú Chulainn (Lament) | 4:11 | |
| 5 | Shivna | 4:05 | |
| 6 | Firedance | 6:04 | |
| 7 | Slip Into Spring / The Harvest | 5:01 | |
| 8 | Riverdance | 5:45 | |
| 9 | American Wake (The Nova Scotia Set) | 3:07 | |
| 10 | Lift The Wings | 3:00 | |
| 11 | Heal Their Hearts / Freedom | 6:26 | |
| 12 | Macedonian Morning | 2:56 | |
| 13 | Marta's Dance / The Russian Dervish | 6:04 | |
| 14 | Andalucia | 4:22 | |
| 15 | Riverdance Reprise | 4:32 |
