O'Stravaganza (Fantaisie autour de Vivaldi et des musiques celtiques d'Irlande) by Hughes de Courson

O'Stravaganza – Vivaldi in Ireland is an album published in 2001 by Hughes de Courson. De Courson's work is a kind of World fusion music. There are only a handful of such arrangers who combine folk music and classical music in a similar vein. Other examples are Mark O'Connor ("The Fiddle Concerto" 1995), Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin ("Between Worlds", 1995) and Shaun Davey ("The Pilgrim" 1984). His aim was to create a fusion of Irish music and Baroque music. It is mostly instrumental but there is one song "Lulaby for Diarmid" based on Gaelic poems from the Ossianic cycle, sung in Irish. The tune is adapted from Vivaldi's "Nisi Dominus cum dederit". The tracks with uilleann pipes are the only ones in which the Irish element dominates over the baroque elements.