Thank you ...great uploads. Didn't know Paddy , but met his father a long time ago now ...there were a few fine musicians on the accordion around then that are almost forgotten with few recordings of their playing ...but the music revival was only getting going then .
Thank God we're now generally without that awful, angular piano accompaniment approach that you can hear in this - his wonderful playing would be more wonderful without it. The great innovation of the late 20th Century was the revolution in the accompaniment to Irish traditional music - lead by people like Donal Lunny and Arty McGlynn. Before that, it wasn't understood that Irish music pre-dates 'classical' music - you have to play more 'open' chords against it to celebrate its 'lilt' - or sometimes just a drone, as with the uilleann pipes.
Quite agree. The clanking joanna does nothing for the music, but it's something that crops up in many genres over the years. It's almost as if music can't be "proper music" without a piano accompaniment.
@@InArcadiaSum Thanks - so you're 'Et in Arcadia (sum)' - would you not prefer to be 'Et in Arcadia (erat)' - I'm just thinking of the ambiguity regarding the phrase 'Et in Arcadia Ego' - Poussin's two paintings, both with that title, represent both meanings - but I presume you know about that?
