Dancing At Lughnasa, movie whose argument is based on the family relationships of five sisters seen by the only boy of the family, is set in 1936, in full transformation of Europe with the echoes of the Spanish Civil War and of the imminent World War. Its action lapses in Ireland, so it has been opted for Bill Whelan, an Irish musician specialized in Celtic music. Saying this, the first thing that come to our minds is the Irish melodies as in Victor Young's The Quiet Man (1952), but Whelan has created some very beautiful and calm melodies, so much so that in some passages it reminds us to the great Georges Delerue (for example in the cue A Kiss In The Forest); it is maybe a very lineal score, only broken by a couple of cues in those that the author feels as fish in the water, and where gives loose rein to his capacity to compose Celtic music in all his extension: In The Lughnasa Fires he already makes us a small sample of what is able to do with this kind of music, but it is in Dancing at Lughnasa (in my opinion, the best cue in the disk), where he shows more his Irish roots, taking charge himself of the drums and percussion, what denotes his implication in these two cues. The disk is completed with a poem (Down By The Shelley Gardens) sung in a very nostalgic tone by Dolores Kane and arranged by the own Whelan, showing another of its facets, that of arranger, in which has already collaborated with people of the caliber as Van Morrison or U2. A.M.

/ SONY CLASSICAL SK 60585 / 37'

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