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Episode 34 of CMC’s podcast. Evonne Ferguson talks to US-based Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy about his current work, musical preoccupations, and his experiences of composing during lockdown, Jonathan Grimes talks to Irish clarinettist and new music specialist Carol McGonnell about her life and work, and music from Gráinne Mulvey recorded by Elizabeth Hilliard and Anselm McDonnell for CMC’s recent online Salon event.Show NotesDonnacha Dennehy

• Composer web site
• CMC Composer Page
• The Last Hotel
• The Second Violinist

Music

• Donnacha Dennehy - The Last Hotel: Breathe Deep 
• Donnacha Dennehy - O (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney
• Donnacha Dennehy - Tessellatum (Nadia Sirota and Liam Byrne)
• Ockeghem - Deo Gratias (Huelgas Ensemble)
• Donnacha Dennehy - Swift’s Epitaph (Andrew Watts and Owen Gunnell)

Carol McGonnell

• Argento Chamber Ensemble

Music

• Ann Cleare - eyam v (woven) (Carol McGonnell, Richard Craig, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gavin Maloney)
• Irene Buckley - Choral
• Ryan Molloy - Cantaireacht (Carol McGonnell)
• Ann Cleare - eyam i (it takes an ocean not to)

CMC St. Brigid’s Day/La Fhéile Bríde 2021 event

• Gráinne Mulvey - a carlow song cycle: Poem #43 (Elizabeth Hilliard, Anselm McDonnell)

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The final episode of CMC's podcast presented by Jonathan Grimes and CMC Director Evonne Ferguson includes a brief look back on CMC's work during 2020, an excerpt from CMC's last online Salon event for 2020, and Anne-Marie O'Farrell on her 2017 Beethoven-inspired work, ‘Der Abend'.Show Notes

• Anne-Marie O'Farrell
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Composer Web Site
• CMC Salon - Sebastian Adams, Lina Andonoskva, and Barry O’Halpin

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To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, this week’s amplify podcast features composers Gerald Barry, Seán Clancy, Raymond Deane, Eric Egan and Jane O’Leary on Beethoven’s influence and inspiration behind some of their works. The episode also features extracts from Beethoven’s letters read by Bernard Clarke.Show Notes

• Gerald Barry
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Schott Music
• Seán Clancy
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Composer web site
• Raymond Deane
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Composer web site
• Eric Egan
• Jane O’Leary

Music

• Beethoven - Emperor Concerto (Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Firkusny)
• Gerald Barry - Beethoven (Stephen Richardson, Crash Ensemble)
• Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Daniel Barenboim)
• Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 26 (Emil Gilels)
• Raymond Deane - Noctuary: Minerva’s Owl (Hugh Tinney)
• Jane O’Leary - The Passing of Sound Forever (ConTempo Quartet)
• Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 (Emerson String Quartet)
• Gerald Barry - Schott and Sons, Mainz (Stephen Richardson, Chamber Choir Ireland)
• Gerald Barry - Mrs Streicher (Gavan Ring, Stephen Irvine)
• Gerald Barry - Stockhausen (1928–2007) (Barbara Hannigan, Juoko Laivuori)
• Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15 in a minor, Op 132 (Alban Berg Quartet
• Eric Egan - … a thing glimpsed … (Trondheim Sinfonietta)
• Seán Clancy - Neue Kraft Fühlend (Bozzini Quartet)
• Raymond Deane - Noctuary: Minerva’s Owl (Hugh Tinney)
• Gerald Barry - Beethoven (Stephen Richardson, Crash Ensemble)

Production and editing - Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell

Thanks to Bernard Clarke for reading the letters, to Jane O’Leary for her help in selecting and sourcing the letters, CMC Library Coordinator Susan Brodigan for her research into

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This week’s podcast features four of the composers whose works will be presented as part of Irish National Opera’s 20 Shots of Opera online event. Éna Brennan, Michael Gallen, Emma O’Halloran, and Evangelia Rigaki talk about their pieces alongside contributions from INO Artistic Director Fergus Sheil and soprano Orla Boylan.

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Show Notes

• 20 Shots of Opera
• Michael Gallen
  • michaeljgallen.com
  • CMC composer page
• Emma O’Halloran
  • emma-ohalloran.com
  • CMC composer page
• Evangelia Rigaki
• Éna Brennan

Music

• Evangelia Rigaki - The Gift (Doreen Curran (mezzo-soprano), Sean McGinley (actor), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil)
• Michael Gallen - At a Loss (Orla Boylan (soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Fergus Sheil)
• Emma O’Halloran - The Wait (Naomi Louisa O’Connell (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly)
• Éna Brennan - Rupture (Rachel Goode (soprano), Sarah Richmond (mezzo-soprano), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Elaine Kelly)

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This week's podcast marks the Library Association of Ireland's annual Library Ireland Week. CMC Library Coordinator Susan Brodigan talks about recent digitisation projects in CMC's library and selects some of the recordings that have been digitised. Also featured is a conversation with composer Francis Heery about his project ‘Animal Faith' which researches the intersections between bioacoustics and composition. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Through the Digital Door: Library Ireland Week 2020
• Heritage Council/An Chomhairle Oidhreachta Community Heritage grant has been awarded to CMC
• Francis Heery
  • francisheery.com
  • CMC composer page

Music

• Francis Heery - Callows

CMC Library Coordinator, Susan Brodigan

• Joan Trimble - Suite for Strings
• Eric Sweeney - Musique pour mes Amis (Danish Wind Quartet), Recorded at November 1997 in St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle
• Raymond Deane - Marche Oublieé (Schubert Ensemble),recorded in February 1997 at Skerries Community Centre, Co. Dublin,
• Donnacha Dennehy - Pluck, Stroke and Hammer (Hugh Tinney, Vanbrugh Quartet), recorded in 1997 at St Patrick's Hall in Dublin Castle

Francis Heery

• Francis Heery - Lebensraum
• Morton Feldman - String Quartet No. 1
• Francis Heery - Quinta
• Francis Heery - Callows
• Francis Heery - Uexkell

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Episode 29 of CMC’s podcast on Irish composers and new music features a conversation with flautist Emma Coulthard about her career and work with Irish composers. The episode also includes contributions from two of the composers on their collaborations with Emma - Paul Hayes and Fergus Johnston.Show Notes

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• Emma Coulthard
  • Soundcloud page
  • For the Birds - online concert on 30 November

Music

• Fergus Johnston - Planxty
• Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR
• John Buckley - Boireann (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
• Michael Holohan - Leafy with Love Banks
• Paul Hayes - Mass Production (Emma Coulthard (voice), Jennifer Walshe (trumpet), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Paul Hayes - Echo Chatterbox
• John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
• Fergus Johnston - Opus Lepidopterae (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)
• Benjamin Dwyer - HAG (Emma Coulthard, Benjamin Dwyer)
• Fergus Johnston - Planxty
• Anna Murray/Emma Coulthard - GLSS.RNDR
• John McLachlan - Isola (Emma Coulthard, David Adams)

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Episode 28 of CMC's podcast features conversations with composers about two recent album releases. Ed Bennett's ‘Psychedelia' on NMC Recordings, and Karen Power's ‘Human Nature'. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

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• Ed Bennett: Psychedelia (NMC Records)
• Karen Power: Human Nature
• Ed Bennett
  • Composer web site
  • CMC page
• Karen Power
  • Composer web site
  • CMC page
• CMC Salon - Ian Wilson ‘Wild is the wind' album launch
  • Wild is the wind - Diatribe Records

Music

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Opening

• Ed Bennett - Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra)
• Karen Power - train to Machu Picchu

Karen Power

All tracks from Human Nature- loved bees (Anne-Marie O’Farrell)- underwater frogs of Angkor Wat (Thomas Buckner)- train to Machu Picchu (Johnny Chang)- Amazonian frogs (Seth Josel)- if trees had bellies (Jane Rigler)- seals off the Namibian shipwreck coast (Ute Wassermann)- monkeys + ‘waterbird' of the Amazon (Loré Lixenberg)- bats of Namibia (John Godfrey)- beneath the living sand dunes @ Gobabeb (Rishin Singh)- sirens of New York (Samuel Stoll)

Ed Bennett

All tracks from Psychedelia- Organ Grinder (Orkest de Ereprijs)- Freefalling (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)- Song of the Books: III (Kate Ellis, Decibel)- Psychedelia (RTE National Symphony Orchestra)- Song of the Books: II (Kate Ellis, Decibel)- Magnetic (Jack McNeill, Eliza McCarthy)

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Episode 27 of CMC's podcast ‘amplify' features a special episode produced for this year’s City of Derry International Choir Festival. Derry-born composer Seán Doherty talks to Evonne Ferguson about his background in choral singing and composing for choir, and conductor Orla Flanagan talks to Jonathan Grimes about her work with the Mornington Singers and Irish composers.Show Notes

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• City of Derry International Choir Festival
  • 2020 Festival podcast series
• Séan Doherty
  • cmc.ie/composers/sean-doherty
  • seandohertymusic.com
  • New Dublin Voices
  • Laetare Vocal Ensemble
• Orla Flanagan
  • Mornington Singers

Music

• Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers)

Seán Doherty

• Blessed be that Maid Marie (New Dublin Voices)
• Snow Dance for the Dead (New Dublin Voices)
• A Nywe Werk (New Dublin Voices)
• Ghost Song (Laetare Vocal Ensemble)
• This Endless Night (New Dublin Voices)
• Khuluma isintu (Speak to the People)

Orla Flanagan

• Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers)
• Caitríona Ní Dhubhghaill - Is naofa thú (Mornington Singers)
• Evangelia Rigaki - The Pregnant Box (Mornington Singers)
• John Buckley - Lux Aeterna (Mornington Singers)
• John Buckley - To the Northeast: Harbour Song (Mornington Singers)
• Seán Doherty - Under-Song (Mornington Singers)
• Colin Mawby - Alleluia, Christus Resurrexit (Mornington Singers)
• Rhona Clarke - Regina Caeli (Mornington Singers)
• Frank Corcoran - Caoine (Mornington Singers)
• Gráinne Mulvey - Dead Earth (Milltown Chamber Choir)
• Eoin Mulvany - Is úar Geimred (Mornington Singers)

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Episode 26 of CMC's podcast on new music from Ireland and Irish composers features a report from Kirkos Ensemble's Biosphere series of outdoor events in September, and audio diaries from Jennifer Walshe, Tonnta vocal ensemble members Robbie Blake and Elizabeth Hilliard, and saxophonist Nick Roth on Jennifer Walshe's recent work ‘Ireland: A Dataset'.Show Notes

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Biosphere

Featuring contributions from composer Tom Lane, Kirkos Director Sebastian Adams, and horn player Hannah Miller

• Tom Lane
  • Tide
• Sebastian Adams
  • Tide Quartet

Ireland: A Dataset

Audio diary contributions from Robbie Blake, Elizabeth Hilliard, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe

• Ireland: A Dataset
• Tonnta
• Nick Roth
  • CMC page
• Elizabeth Hilliard
• Jennifer Walshe
  • CMC page

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The first in a new series of CMC's podcast features a special tribute to composer Eric Sweeney, who passed away in July of this year. The episode features contributions from David Adams, John Buckley, Hazel Farrell, Ronan Guilfoyle and Grainne Mulvey about the composer's life, music and sizeable contribution to music in Ireland. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Eric Sweeney
  • CMC Page
  • ericsweeney.com
• David Adams
• John Buckley
• Hazel Farrell
• Ronan Guilfoyle
• Grainne Mulvey
• Through the Digital Door: works by Eric Sweeney in CMC's Library

Music

• Kyrie from Hymn to Gaia (Eric Sweeney)
• Ceol Rince Ros Mhic Treoin (New Ross Dance Music) (Finghin Collins, Dearbhla Collins, Alexander Bernstein)
• There is no Rose (Chamber Choir Ireland)
• Duo (John Finucane, Elisaveta Blumina)
• Canzona (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Symphony No. 2 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Dance Music (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Le Circle de Lumiere (Eric Sweeney)
• The Widening Gyre (Eric Sweeney)
• Guitar Concerto (John Feeley, Sunrise Quartet)
• Walk/Don't Walk (Ríona Ó'Duinnín, Geraldine O'Doherty, Nancy Johnson)
• The Invader
• Evening: the lighthouse at Hook Head (Olga Scheps)

Thanks to Susan Brodigan, CMC Library Coordinator, for her help in sourcing the archival recordings.

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