Pianist Aileen Cahill shares three recordings from Anna Murray, Gráinne Mulvey and Linda Buckley from a recent playlist, entitled ‘Mná in Music’, which she curated for International Women’s Day.Show Notes

• Aileen Cahill - CMC Scholar-in-Residence 2022
• Listen to the full playlist

Music

• Jane O’Leary - Palette of Preludes (Aileen Cahill)
• Anna Murray - Azuma-asobi /東遊
• *Grainne Mulvey - Steel Grey Splinters (Isabelle O’Connell) Also available on commercial release here*
• Linda Buckley - Numarimur (Elizabeth Hilliard) Also available on commercial release here

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A conversation with musicologist Barbara Dignam about Roger Doyle's magum opus ‘Babel'. Recorded last year, this episode continues amplify's occasional series which takes a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past. Presented by Jonathan Grimes.Show Notes

• Barbara Dignam
  • Creative Impulses, Cultural Accents: Brian Boydell's Music, Advocacy, Painting and Legacy
• Roger Doyle
  • CMC Composer Page
  • rogerdoyle.com
  • Bandcamp page
• Babel

Music

• Pagoda Charm from Babel - Temple Music
• Why Is Kilkenny So Good from Rapid Eye Movements
• Thalia
• Rapid Eye Movements (Part 1)
• The Entertainment and Leisure Pursuits Show
• Seresa III from Fairlight Memories
• The Morning Show Part 2 - Earth at Full-Moon
• Lettuce Is My Hair Well Watered
• Pagoda Charm from Babel - Temple Music
• The Morning Show Part 1
• The Stairwell Part 1
• Vertical Fissures in Stone
• Mr. Brady's Room
• Back in Time from Time Machine
• The Morning Show Part 1
• Farewell to Bray

Editing and production: Keith Fennell

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Episode 61 features conversations with composer Ailís Ní Ríain and pianist Yonit Kosovske about ‘Watershed’, a song cycle composed by Ailís Ní Ríain for Yonit Kosovske and contralto Julie Comparini. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Watershed
• Ailís Ní Ríain
  • CMC Composer Page
  • ailis.info
• Yonit Kosovske
• Julie Comparini
• Jessica Brown
  • And Say
• amplify episode #60
• amplify episode #59

Music

All music taken from Ailís Ní Ríain's Watershed performed by Yonit Kosovske and Julie Comparini. Listen to and purchase the album here.

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Production and editing: Jonathan Grimes, Keith Fennell

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Episode 60 of CMC’s fortnightly podcast features an interview with composer Raymond Deane about his recent work for piano quartet ‘Vayu Vata’. Premiered by the Danish-based Rudersdal Chamber Players in January, the episode also includes a contribution from the group’s violinist Christine Pryn about the work. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

CMCIreland · amplify #60 - Raymond Deane on his recent work for piano quartet 'Vayu Vata'

Show Notes

• Raymond Deane
  • CMC Composer Page
  • raymonddeane.com
  • YouTube Channel
• Christine Pryn
• Rudersdal Chamber Players
• Prayer for Peace

Music

• Raymond Deane - Violin Concerto (Christine Pryn, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gerhard Markson
• Raymond Deane - Vayu Vata (Rudersdal Chamber Players)
• Raymond Deane - Oboe Concerto (Matthew Manning, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce)
• Shostakovich - Piano Trio No. 2

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CMC's podcast returns for 2022 with an episode on CMC and Centre Culturel Irlandais' Ulysses Journey 2022 programme of new music and film screenings marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce. Featuring contributions from CMC's Linda O'Shea Farren, composers Darragh Kelly and Ailís Ní Ríain, and guitarist Katalin Koltai.Show Notes

• Ulysses Journey 2022
• Watch the specially commissioned music films on YouTube (available for a limited time only)
• Darragh Kelly
  • darragh-kelly.com
  • CMC Composer Page
• Penelope
  • Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair
• Ailís Ní Ríain
  • ailis.info
  • CMC Composer Page
• I will see if I can see
  • Jim Henry
• Katalin Koltai

Music

• Ultan O'Brien - cling(ing) like fire
• Darragh Kelly - Penelope
• Ailís Ní Ríain - I will see if I can see
• Daragh Black Hynes - Proteus (Katalin Koltai - guitar), archival recording of premiere on 4 February 2022

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The final episode in amplify's mini series featuring highlights and reflections on 2021. Composer and artistic director of Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble Greg Caffrey talks to CMC's Jonathan Grimes about the group's debut album, ‘A Terrible Beauty'.Show Notes

• Greg Caffrey
  • gregcaffrey.com
  • CMC Composer Page
• Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble

Music

All music taken from Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble album A Terrible Beauty

• Grainne Mulvey - Luca
• Amy Rooney - Phosphenes
• Greg Caffrey - A Terrible Beauty

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To mark the end of 2021, CMC’s amplify podcast invited some guests to reflect on their year. For this episode, pianist and Fidelio Trio member Mary Dullea shares some of her musical highlights of 2021.Show Notes

• Mary Dullea
• Hormoz Farhat
  • amplify #49 - Hormoz Farhat (1928–2021)
• David Fennessy
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Universal Edition Composer Page
• Chamber Music on Valentia
• Raymond Deane
  • raymonddeane.com
  • CMC Composer Page

Music

• Hormoz Farhat - Piano Sonata No. 2: Movt III Molto Animato
• David Fennessy - Piano Trio no. 2: In Memoriam Spencer Boney Movt II (Fidelio Trio)
• Raymond Deane - Scintillae II ‘Seven fragments from a pandemic’ (Darragh Morgan, Mary Dullea)

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The third in a short mini series of episodes marking the end of 2021. Journal of Music editor Toner Quinn selects recordings from Gerald Barry, Jane Deasy, Dave Flynn and Anne-Marie O’Farrell as his recorded highlights of the year.Show NotesToner QuinnAlice’s Adventures Under Ground - Irish National OperaReview in Journal of MusicJane DeasyDave FlynnAnne-Marie O’FarrellMusicGerald Barry - Alice’s Adventures Under Ground - Signum ClassicsJane Deasy - ThawingDave Flynn - String Quartet No. 3: The Keening from the album ‘Irish Minimalism’Anne-Marie O’Farrell - AirDance from the album ‘Embrace’

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The second in a short mini series of episodes marking the end of 2021. Soprano Elizabeth Hilliard talks about some of her musical highlights of the year including the launch of the album of Gráinne Mulvey's piece for voice and electronics ‘Great Women'.Show Notes

• Elizabeth Hilliard
• Great Women - Gráinne Mulvey
• Dublin International Chamber Music Festival
• Sundays@Noon concert - Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe
• How the World Begins Again

Music

• Gráinne Mulvey - Great Women
• Gráinne Mulvey - Within - Without (Elizabeth Hilliard, Paul Roe)

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To mark the end of 2021, we invite a number of guests to choose some of their musical highlights of the year. For the first of these mini episodes, composer Linda Buckley talks about some of the pieces she had premiered during the year and, through hindsight, how her experiences of lockdown restrictions have influenced some of these works.Show Notes

• Linda Buckley
  • lindabuckley.org
  • CMC Composer Page
• West Wicklow Festival
  • Performance of ‘The Finite Air' at the West Wicklow Festival by Rachel Kelly and Fiachra Garvey
• Nordic Viola
• Ghost in the Throat live show
• Roisin Imagined
• Linda Buckley elected to Aosdána

Music

• Exploding Stars (Darragh Morgan) from the album ‘From Ocean's Floor', NMC Recordings
• The Finite Air (Rachel Kelly (voice), Fiachra Garvey (piano)
• Aud (Nordic Viola)
• Ghost in the Throat

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