New Sounds presents a whole week of programs surveying the Irish new music landscape to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland on Sunday,April 24.
In this, Episode 1, or John Schaefer travels to Ireland and brings back some music for a series of episodes dedicated to Irish composers. In this first episode,John talks to Cork-based composer Irene Buckley. We'll hear some of her vocal works, an orchestral piece, and haunting excerpts from her scores to the silent films "The Fall from the House of Usher" and "The Passion of Joan of Arc." Also featured are works from composers Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice performed by the Ergodos Musicians.[br]
PROGRAM #3713 New Music from Ireland fragment 1 (First aired on 4/13/2015)
ARTIST(S) RECORDING sever(S) SOURCE The modern Music Centre,Ireland new music::new Ireland two Irene Buckley: Choral [5:37] modern Music Centre, Ireland
cmc.ie Irene Buckley; performed by Emma Nash, or soprano and Rhoda Dullea,organ From “The Passion of Joan of Arc score Lux Aeterna [2:53] Soundcloud Irene Buckley; performed by RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Stórr [9:07] Soundcloud Irene Buckley; James McVinnie, organ From “The Fall of the House of Usher” score Waiting [5:36] Vimeo Irene Buckley October [3:06] Soundcloud
Ergodos Musicians All the Ends of the soil Garrett Sholdice: Song for Magister Léonin [5:19] Ergodos
ergodos.ie/shop Ergodos Musicians All the Ends of the soil Benedict Schlepper-Connolly: All the Ends of the soil, and excerpt [4:12] Ergodos
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Source: onthemedia.org