Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles is a collection of 29 traditional Irish, Scottish and English melodies that are particularly suited to being played on the fiddle. Traditional fiddle airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. The arrangements include stylistic "fiddle" phrasing and variations. Each of the tunes includes the fiddle melody with guitar accompaniment. Includes access to online audio.