Track Listing

1. Farmer's Hand Intro
2. Fairy Dance
3. Summer Skye
4. Brighid's Blessing
5. Mo Cairenn
6. Farmer's Hand (instrumental version)
7. The Fianna Battle Song
8. The Knowing Tree
9. The Garden
10. Myst on the Glen
11. Mother Sun
12. Fantasy and Dance
13. Fields of the Heart
14. Farmer's Hand (vocal version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127220 in Music
• Released on: 2000-06-23
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
The Irish peasants, left to fend for themselves in a world dominated by a corrupted church, oppressive landlords, and an absence of local government and medicine, turned to the own imaginations to understand the world around them. From haunting ballads to spry dances, this music was inspired by their legends, their lore, and their fantasies. Over 50 minutes of original Celtic music featuring violin, guitars, penny whistles, piano, bodhran, bass, percussion, and string orchestration.

About the Artist
David Davidson, violinist, has performed around the world as concermaster, soloist, and chamber musician. Currently, David is concertmaster of The Tennessee Summer Symphony and The Nashville Chamber Orchestra and member of The Nashville String Machine, the prestigious studio orchestra recording regularly for all major artists in the Nashville music community. David's passionate use of violin and strings in all forms of commercial and concert music lends him an artistic edge. He resides in Bellevue, Tennessee with his wife, Karen and four children.

Customer Reviews

Timeless
This music is surprisingly timeless considering how relatively unheard of it is. I bought this CD 5 years ago and I always find myself coming back to it.

The music itself is beautifully subtle. While Fairy Dance, Summer Sky, and The Fianna Battle Song are immediately accessible, you will find tracks 10 through 13 to be eventual favorites. Track 10 -- Myst on the Glen -- sounds very ethereal; the music fits its title perfectly. I love the colorful, vivid imagery that this music provokes each time I listen.

The performers have executed the music perfectly; the string instruments, especially, sound great. Expect a high overall production value.

While listening to this CD, I sometimes forget that it's supposed to be celtic. Over the years this album has gone from "that Celtic CD" to something I consider simply beautiful music and nothing else.

Takes you into Wonderland
Beautiful CD -- magical in its fluidity and instrumentals. You truly can let it take your mind into a fairy tale. Simply lovely.

Heart Strings
You have not yet lived, nor has your heart been completely stolen until you have listened to Celtic Fantasy. Exuberant spirals of sound dance into your mind as if they were restless spirits. David Davidson masterfully produces audible rapture with violins and his classical roots are very evident in these selections. This is nothing short of audible seduction.

Fairy Dance takes you to a lush forest and is the music of legends, lore and fantasy. The fantasy portrayed is the result of years spent desiring freedom to the point of escape into the imagination. From spry dances to haunting ballads, you will feel the emotions of those who have gone before.

You could do nothing more than sit and listen and that would be enough. But if you could, you would grow wings and fly. This is pure sensual pleasure for the soul in Summer Skye.

Brighid's Blessing is filled with longing and warmth representing the desire for the Hearth Keeper to preserve the fire that burns in us all. To awaken to life with passion. The beauty will make your soul shiver.

Mo Cairenn lulls you into a sense of peace with guitar. Farmer's Hand reappears in an instrumental version and has an undercurrent reminiscent of the vibrations of life or all that is not seen that gives life. This is a sonorous experience.

Before you even know the name of The Fianna Battle Song, you will think of "war." It is mesmerizing, like an unstoppable march to death. Suddenly a stillness and delicious tempting quality appears in The Knowing Tree. It seems to be tempting you to walk down a winding path to a place of true contentment. Charming beauty combined with melancholy.

The Garden has beautiful words speaking of a peacefulness of knowing that the gift of love is free. Mysts on the Glen is sprinkled with magic and perhaps the splash of a selkie. You feel that fishing ships are called by the waves and you can even hear a few splashing on the rocks. Vivid.

Mother Sun makes you feel as if you are standing in the bright sunlight. This open and almost airy piece has a sweet sadness because with a mother's gift of life also comes the promise of death.

Fantasy and Dance seems to be a dance of life and ends in a crescendo. Bittersweet.
Fields of the heart is like the planting of three flowers that grow together in the warm earth and wave in a tender breeze. Completely Captivating.

Farmer's hand appears for the third time as a vocal version. Angelic voices sing of a child's smile, a warm home and how through our lives we go through joy and pain.

"Our lives are full with knowledge gained."

This is a deep journey into musical ecstasy. The violins play only what a heart can say. You will want to dissolve into this music.

I dedicate this to Francis because life is filled with
pleasure and pain and yet we have the choice to embrace
love and the power of joy.

~The Rebecca Review