amplify

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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Episode 53 features conversations with some of the artists involved in this year's Music Current festival, which took place in November. Composer and festival director Fergal Dowling on the background and aims of the festival, clarinetist Paul Roe along with composers Neil O'Conner and Elis Czerniak on their collaborations, flautists Lina Andonovska and Richard Craig, and Seán O Dailaigh on his new piece written especially for Richard. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show Notes

• Music Current
• Fergal Dowling
  • CMC composer page
  • fergaldowling.com
• Music Current Soloists
• Neil O'Connor
  • Ordnance Survey - Field Work
  • CMC composer page
  • neiloconnor.org
• Elis Czerniak
• Lina Andonovska - Public Privacy
• Richard Craig
• Richard Craig - Vale
• Seán Ó Dálaigh
  • CMC composer page
  • seanodalaigh.com

Music

• Ordnance Survey - Earlsfort Terrace 1991
• Neil O'Connor - Frisson / Rapture (Paul Roe, Neil O'Connor)*
• Elis Czerniak - and the Acceptance of Death (Joe O'Farrell, Paul Roe, Ilse de Ziah)*
• Ordnance Survey - Belfield May 1985
• David Fennessy - Bridge (Lina Andonovska)*
• Seán Ó Dálaigh - Landscape II (Richard Craig)*
• Fergal Dowling - Double (Richard Craig)*

*Recordings taken from Music Current 2021 festival

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Episode 52 features a conversation with composer and violist Garth Knox about his recent work and approach to composing, recorded at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in September. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson and edited by Keith Fennell.Show Notes

• Choral Sketches
• Malachy Robinson - The Irish Double Bass
• John Kinsella RIP
• Garth Knox
  • garthknox.org
  • CMC composer page
• Finding the source exhibition at Centre Culturel Irlandais
• September Me festival
• Quartet for One for Lawrence Power
• Lockdown Blues
• Viola Spaces

Music

• Viola Spaces Duo no. 5 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox)
• D'amore vespers (Garth Knox)
• Quartet for One (Lawrence Power)
• Lockdown Blues (Ragazze Quartet)
• Viola Spaces Duo no. 1 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox)
• Viola Spaces Duo no. 4 (Melia Watras and Garth Knox)
• Air and Ground (Garth Knox, Concorde)

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Show notes

• Michael Gallen
  • CMC composer page
  • michaeljgallen.com
• Straymaker
• Elsewhere at the Abbey Theatre (15–20 November 2021)
• Tom Creed
• Daire Halpin
• Fiona Monbet

Music

Music taken from the concert performance of the opera at St Maeldoid's Church, Castleblayney in November 2019 and during rehearsals in Íontas Theatre, Castleblayney in October 2021.

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Episode 50 of CMC's podcast 'amplify' features a special episode produced for the 2021 City of Derry International Choir Festival. Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson speak to Elaine Agnew and Eoghan Desmond, two of the Irish composers whose work is programmed in this year's festival.

Show notes

City of Derry International Choir Festival

2021 programme

2021 podcast programme

Eoghan Desmond

eoghandesmond.com

CMC composer page

Elaine Agnew

elaineagnew.com

CMC composer page

Remarkable Project

Music

Eoghan Desmond

Oxen of the Sun (UCD Choral Scholars, Desmond Earley)

Thomas Morley - Nolo mortem peccatoris

Bach - Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 No.1

The Morningstar (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier)

This is My Prayer to Thee (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley)

Mother Goose’s Melodies (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier)

Amra Choluim Chille – A Dheascabháil agus a Shaol (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley)

Elaine Agnew

I am a Miracle (European Union Chamber Orchestra, St Colman’s College Choir, conductor Elaine Agnew)

The God of Rain (RTÉ Cór na nÓg, Mary Amond O’Brien)

Remarkable (Remarkable Voices, Codetta, Ulster Orchestra, Donal Doherty)

Child Within (Cantairí Óga Átha Cliath, Bernie Sherlock)

Turnabout (Belfast Philharmonic Youth Choir and Belfast Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Lynsey Callaghan)

A tribute to composer and Emeritus Professor of Music at Trinity College, Dublin Hormoz Farhat, who died in August of this year, featuring an interview with the composer from 2020 by Linda O'Shea Farren, as well as contributions from composers Amir Tafreshipour and Donnacha Dennehy. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.Show notes

• Hormoz Farhat
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Wikipedia Page
  • Irish Times Obituary
• Amir Tafreshipour
• Donnacha Dennehy

Music

• Piano Sonata No. 2: II (Mary Dullea)
• Piano Sonata No. 1: III (Mary Dullea)
• Piano Sonata No. 1: I (Mary Dullea
• Piano Sonata No. 1: IV (Mary Dullea
• String Quartet No. 1: Mov. 4 (St Petersburg String Quartet)
• Piano Sonata No. 2: III (Mary Dullea)
• Nouveau Rivage (BBC Symphony Orchestra)

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CMC's podcast amplify returns with a special episode from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Jonathan Grimes talks to the current composer resident David Coonan, and CCI director Nora Hickey M'Sichili on the annual residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris for CMC represented composers. Evonne Ferguson talks to the 2020 composer resident recipient Finola Merivale.Show notes

• David Coonan
  • Residency annoucement
• Centre Culturel Irlandais
• Finola Merivale
  • CMC Composer Page
  • Residency annoucement
• 2022 composer residency annoucement

MusicDavid Coonan

• Verballing - Irish National Opera
• Vain Prayer - BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Pierre-André Valade
• Requiescat - Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London, Colm Carey
• Butterfly Songlines - ConTempo Quartet

Nora Hickey M'Sichili - Centre Culturel Irlandais

• Greg Caffrey - Garden Of Earthly Delights (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)

• Michael Gallen - Barricades (from Elsewhere)

Finola Merivale

• The Language of Mountains is Rain (Adrianne Pope (vn), Min Park (vn), Gabriel Taubman (va), Doublas Machiz (vc))
• des os (Catherine Sikora)
• Do You Hear Me Now? (Desdemona Ensemble)

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In the final episode of the current series, we hear a selection of audio reflections from some composers and musicians on the past year. Roger Doyle, Judith Ring, Isabelle O’Connell, John McLachlan, Frank Corcoran, Anne Marie O’Farrell and Jenn Kirby all provide insights into their creative lives over the past 15 months and look ahead to the future.Show notes

• Roger Doyle
  • rogerdoyle.com/
  • CMC composer page
• Judith Ring
  • judithring.com
  • CMC composer page
• John McLachlan
  • johnmclachlan.org
  • CMC composer page
• Frank Corcoran
  • frankcorcoran.com
  • CMC composer page
• Anne-Marie O’Farrell
  • annemarieofarrell
  • CMC composer page

Music

• Jenn Kirby - Awake
• Roger Doyle - Obstinato
• Roger Doyle - The Sea Would Not Have Us from iGirl
• Judith Ring - Is It Over Yet? (Lina Andonovska)
• Judith Ring - The Wood Between the Worlds (Martin Johnson)
• Judith Ring - Solo set Valentia Island 2018
• Andrew Hamilton - O.A.I.R. (Isabelle O’Connell)
• John McLachlan - Vela X
• John McLachlan - Fanfaron
• John McLachlan - Headland (Evlana)
• Frank Corcoran - Rhapsodic Bowing for 8 Celli (Martin Johnson, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Frank Corcoran - Nine Looks at Pierrot (Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble)
• Anne-Marie O’Farrell - Eitilt (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra)
• Jenn Kirby - Awake
• Jenn Kirby - Arlene Solo

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Episode 46 features composer Deirdre Gribbin on her latest commission ‘Dark Matter Hunting’ from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival and her long association with the Bantry-based festival, and artistic director Francis Humphrys on this year’s programme and the challenges of putting on an online festival. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

CMCIreland · amplify #46 - Deirdre Gribbin & West Cork Chamber Music Festival's Francis Humphrys

Show notes

• West Cork Chamber Music Festival
  • Festival progamme
  • Pacifica Quartet concert featuring Deirdre Gribbin world online premiere
  • Citizens of Everywhere concert featuring Finola Merivale ‘The silent sweep as you stand still’
• Deirdre Gribbin
  • deirdregribbin.com/
  • CMC composer page

Music

Visit West Cork Chamber Music’s archive for a comprehensive collection of past performances from the festival

• Deirdre Gribbin - How to Make the Water Sound (Fidelio Trio)
• Deirdre Gribbin - Amazing Face (Vanbrugh Quartet)
• Deirdre Gribbin - Devil’s Dwealing Place (Nurit Stark)
• Deirdre Gribbin - Kindersang (Caroline Melzer, Nurit Stark)
• Deirdre Gribbin - Dark Matter Hunting (Pacifica Quartet)
• Finola Merivale - The silent sweep as you stand still (Mairéad Hickey, Ella van Poucke)
• John Kinsella - Prelude and Toccata (Vanbrugh Quartet)
• Emma O’Halloran - Dying is a Wild Night (Quatuor Zaïde)
• Seán Doherty - String Quartet No.3 ‘The Devil’s Dream’ (Vanbrugh Quartet)

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Continuing with a new occasional series which takes a look back at works by Irish composers in the recent past, senior lecturer at TU Dublin Mark Fitzgerald talks to CMC’s Jonathan Grimes about Gerald Barry’s 1991–2 opera, ‘Triumph of Beauty and Deceit’.Show notesMark FitzgeraldGerald BarryCMC composer pageSchott Music pageTriumph of Beauty and DeceitCMC Catalogue pageSchott Music pageMusicGerald Barry - Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (Nicholas Clapton (Ct-solo), Denis Lakey (Ct-solo), Richard Edgar-Wilson (T-solo), Adrian Clarke (Bar-solo), Stephen Richardson (B-solo), Composers Ensemble, conductor Diego Masson)

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