Irlandiani Carina Drury, Nathaniel Mander, Poppy Walshaw

• Lorenzo Bocchi (?-1725): A Musicall Entertainment, Sonata IX for Cello and Continuo:
• 1 Bocchi: A Musicall Entertainment, Sonata IX for Cello and Continuo: I. Vivace 01:49
• 2 Bocchi: A Musicall Entertainment, Sonata IX for Cello and Continuo: II. Adagio 01:00
• 3 Bocchi: A Musicall Entertainment, Sonata IX for Cello and Continuo: III. Andante 02:42
• 4 Bocchi: A Musicall Entertainment, Sonata X for Cello and Continuo: I. Allegro 02:08
• 5 Bocchi: A Musicall Entertainment, Sonata X for Cello and Continuo: II. Adagio 00:32
• 6 Bocchi: A Musicall Entertainment, Sonata X for Cello and Continuo: III. Vivace 02:12
• Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762): Cello Sonata in C major, H.105:
• 7 Geminiani: Cello Sonata in C major, H.105: I. Andante 02:00
• 8 Geminiani: Cello Sonata in C major, H.105: II. Allegro 04:48
• 9 Geminiani: Cello Sonata in C major, H.105: III. Affettuoso 02:57
• 10 Geminiani: Cello Sonata in C major, H.105: IV. Allegro 03:07
• 11 Geminiani: Cello Sonata in A minor, H.108: I. Adagio 00:47
• 12 Geminiani: Cello Sonata in A minor, H.108: II. Allegro Assai - III. Grave 03:05
• 13 Geminiani: Cello Sonata in A minor, H.108: IV. Allegro 04:04
• Lorenzo Bocchi: Plea Rarkeh Na Rourkough:
• 14 Bocchi: Plea Rarkeh Na Rourkough 00:56
• Turlough O'Carolan (1670 - 1738): Carolan's Concerto:
• 15 O'Carolan: Carolan's Concerto 01:47
• Traditional: Neal - A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1724):
• 16 Traditional: Neal - A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1724): Thomas Burke 01:38
• 17 Traditional: Neal - A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1724): Limbrick's Lamentation 04:02
• 18 Traditional: Neal - A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1724): Ye Clarge's Lamentation 03:15
• Turlough O'Carolan: Captain O'Kane:
• 19 O'Carolan: Captain O'Kane 02:13
• Traditional: Neal - A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1724):
• 20 Traditional: Neal - A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (1724): Capten Magan 00:43
• Turlough O'Carolan: Sí Bheag, Sí Mhor:
• 21 O'Carolan: Sí Bheag, Sí Mhor 02:40
• Burk Thomoth (? - 1750): 12 Irish and 12 Scotch Airs with Variations:
• 22 Thomoth: 12 Irish and 12 Scotch Airs with Variations: No.5. Slaunt Ri Plulib 02:27
• 23 Thomoth: 12 Irish and 12 Scotch Airs with Variations: No.6. The Major 01:32
• Turlough O'Carolan: Carolan's Farewell to Music:
• 24 O'Carolan: Carolan's Farewell to Music 06:11
• Total Runtime 58:35

Info for Irlandiani

Irlandiani is the debut album from the Irish baroque cellist Carina Drury. Picturing the musical life of early 18th Century Ireland, the album explores the influence of Irish traditional music on Italian baroque composers living in Ireland at the time, and how a fashion for the Italian baroque style also influenced the Irish composers of the day.

In collaboration with the renowned Irish Flute player Eimear McGeown and using a combination of historical and traditional instruments, this album explores Irish tunes from The Neal Collection – the first ever printed collection of Irish music from 1724 – side by side with cello sonatas by Francesco Geminiani and Lorenzo Bocchi, both of whom lived in Ireland in the 18th century.

Irandiani is a testament to the musical richness of 18th Century Ireland, and the connections between Baroque music and folk traditions, explored in works by Bocchi, Geminiani, Turlough O'Carolan, Burk Thomoth, and traditional melodies from the Neal 'Collection of the Music Celebrated Irish Tunes'.

"Superbly engaging and highly virtuoso performances ... bravura, expressiveness and collegiality." (Planet Hugill)

"The playlist is excellent and the musical story fascinating." (Andrew Benson Wilson)

Carina Drury, baroque cello
Poppy Walshaw, baroque cello continuo
John-Henry Baker, violone, percussion
Nathaniel Mander, harpsichord
Eimear McGeown, Irish flute

Carina Drury
has held a lifelong love for music and she enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician and continuo player. and recent performances have taken her to some of her favourite concert halls in the world; from the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, to the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest and LG Arts Centre in Seoul, South Korea.

A chamber musician at heart, Carina is a founding member of Ensemble Augelletti, the BBC New Generation Baroque Ensemble 2023-2025.

Carina released her first solo album ‘Irlandiani’ to critical acclaim in November 2020, thanks to Arts Council of England funding. The album has been played on BBC Radio 3, RTE Lyric FM and Deutschlandfunk Radio. She was awarded an Arts Council Ireland Emerging Artist Grant in 2021 in order to perform her album programme live in her hometown of Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, and she has toured the album programme around the UK and Ireland with her ensemble Irlandiani.

In 2022 Carina and her ensemble Irlandiani were awarded a Continuo Foundation grant in order to record a second album Smock Alley which was released in 2023, receiving a double 4 star review in BBC Music Magazine.

She was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with Philip Sheppard and Jonathan Manson, and later with Richard Lester at the Guildhall, supported by the THCW trust.

Carina toured as principal cello with the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2010, and has since performed as guest principal with the Irish Baroque Orchestra, Dunedin Consort, La Serenissima, Gabrieli Players, Oxford Bach Soloists and Camerata Ireland. In 2024 Carina spent six weeks touring the west coast of Australia as guest principal cellist with Australian Baroque.

As a soloist she has performed a C.P.E. Bach Cello Concerto at the National Concert Hall in Dublin with the Orchestra of St. Cecilia (2013) and Vivaldi’s Double Cello Concerto with Vlad Waltham and La Serenissima at St Martin in the Fields (2022, 2023), a recording of which was released with Signum Records in 2024 on La Serenissima’s Vivaldi x 2-2 album.

This album contains no booklet.