This Celtic selection featuring guitar and silver flute is an aire. An aire is a tune that is generally played slowly with liberal amounts of rubato, literally meaning to 'rob time', that has no consistent tempo for the purpose of creating flowing expression. Si Bheag, Si More, known by multitudes of spellings, was purportedly one of Turlough O'Carolan's first works.
Apparently the legend goes that there was a great battle between the Red Branch Knights and their mortal enemies upon the place where two hills now lay: one big, one small. Thus, the translation of Si Beag, Si Mhor is "Little Hill, Big Hill."
