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Discography | | Immortal Memory, 2004
Hannibal, 2001
Deirdre of the Sorrows, 1998
Famine Remembrance, 1996
The Children of Lir, 1993
Cruit, 1990
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| Immortal Memory 4ad Records, Catalog No. B0000D1C6T Immortal Memory is a collaboration with Lisa Gerrard, formerly of Dead Can Dance. Lisa won a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award, for the "Gladiator" score. Her credits also include "Whalerider", "Ali", "The Insider", "Mission Impossible 2" and "Black Hawk Down". Lisa and Patrick complement each other perfectly. Amazon's editorial review describes Immortal Memory as "emotional, ethereal, and evocative. This is a timeless album of extraordinary transcendence." | | | | Immortal Memory (Sample) | Listen  | | Psallit In Aure Dei (Sample) | Listen |
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| Hannibal Uni/Decca Records, Catalog No. B0000584XX The soundtrack to Hannibal features Patrick's aria "Vide Cor Meum". This mini-opera, specially composed for the movie, was chosen to be performed at the Oscar's in 2002 during the presentation of a lifetime achievement award to producer Dino De Laurentiis. It was also performed at the 53rd Annual Emmy awards. | | |
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| Deirdre of the Sorrows Windham Hill Records, Catalog No. 01934-11247-2 Deirdre of the Sorrows was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and released in April, 1998. With this recording, Patrick revisits The Annals of Ulster to interpret the tale of Deirdre. This CD also contains some of Patrick's marvellous re-workings of Carolan harp melodies(see Cruit, below, for details), arranged for chamber orchestra.
| | | | A Dherdriu, maindera mar (Full Track) | Listen | | Aided mac nUislenn ocus Derdrenn (Sample) | Listen | | Dr. John Hart (Full Track) | Listen |
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| Famine Remembrance Windham Hill Records, Catalog No. 01934-11240-2 Famine Remembrance was commissioned by The Irish Echo Newspaper and The Wild Geese, Inc. to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Hunger in Ireland. It received its premiere on March 10, 1996 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, and was recently performed there for a second time by the RTE Orchestra under the baton of John- Michael Caprio. Its mood is sombre, its orchestration sweepingly cinematic, its melodies irresistible. | | | | Skibbereen (Sample) | Listen | | The Itinerant Singing Boy (Sample) | Listen | | De Profundis (Sample) | Listen |
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| The Children of Lir Celtic Heartbeat Records, Catalog No. 82744-2 The Children of Lir, an oratorio with libretto in the Irish language, is Patrick's first important work. It was composed in 1990-91 and first performed in 1993 by England's renowned Tallis Choir and the London Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. It was recorded with the same line-up and released in 1994 by Celtic Heartbeat, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records. | | | | Eistigh Re Clog an Chleirigh (Full Track) | Listen |
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| Cruit Gael Linn Records, Catalog No. CEFCD 130 Cruit, which means "harp" in Irish, is Patrick's debut CD on Gael Linn. It was released in 1990, and contains Patrick's settings of traditional Irish melodies by Turlough O Carolan, the last of the Irish bardic harpers. In keeping with the knowledge that Carolan was influenced by the classical composers whose music he heard in the great houses of Ireland, Patrick scored his arrangements for a baroque chamber ensemble of stringed instruments, oboes, and Irish harp. Himself an accomplished harper, Patrick leads the Cruit ensemble playing the harp.
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