Shaun Davey - Recent Recordings

Recent Recordings

May We Never Have To Say Goodbye, released by the Tara Music label, is a collaboration between Shaun Davey, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and a number of world-renowned artists. The album takes its name from the anthem specially composed for the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Croke Park, June 2003. Performed by Rita Connolly, Ronan Tynan and no less than six Dublin choirs. It is presented along with a range of spectacular music from Shaun Davey's unique and exhilarating suite, featuring traditional soloists, singers, choir, pipe band, and orchestra, together with spectacular percussion. This release also includes previously unrecorded pieces from 'The Pilgrim', 'Waking Ned' (Fill to me the Parting Glass), ‘Music of the Spheres’, a magical piece from the Royal Shakespeare Company production of 'Pericles'.

Beal Tuinne - Live at St. James' church Dingle (TARA4022) is a collection of songs comoosed by Shaun with lyrics based on the poems of the late Kerry Poet Caoimhín Ó Cinnéide. Shaun is joined on this recording by his wife Rita Connolly and Dingle based musicians, Seamus Begley, Eilís Kennedy, Lawrence Courtney, Eoin Ó Beaglaoí, Daithí Ó Sé and Jim Murray.

Voices from the Merry Cemetery (TARA4023) is a unique suite of songs again composed by Shaun but this time based on grave inscriptions from the cemetery of the village of Sapânta on Romania’s border with Ukraine known as the Merry Cemetery. For this (live) recording Shaun has again teamed up with Rita Connolly on vocals and piper Liam O'Flynn as well as the Romanian Men’s Choir of the Theology Faculty, Sibiu, directed by Pr. Dr. Sorin Dobre and sections from the Romanian State Philharmonia, conducted by David Brophy.