The Golden Age for contemporary music from Ireland? Songs in the Irish language, and rediscovering Irish women composers from the twentieth century - amplify #3

Episode 3 of CMC’s new podcast features an interview with Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival artistic director, Graham McKenzie, Dáirine Ní Mheadhra on her project to commission Irish composers to write songs using Irish language texts, and CMC Scholar-in-residence Orla Shannon on the music and lives of twentieth-century Irish women composers Ina Boyle and Joan Trimble. Presented by Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson.

Recording and production - Keith Fennell 

Editing - Jonathan Grimes

Show Notes

Ann Cleare

https://www.cmc.ie/composers/ann-cleare

Riot Ensemble

http://riotensemble.com/

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

https://hcmf.co.uk/

CMC at HCMF

https://www.cmc.ie/news/11202019–2125/cmc–2019-huddersfield-contemporary-music-festival

Irish Language Art Song Project

https://www.cmc.ie/AmhrainEalaineGhaeilge

Joan Trimble

https://www.cmc.ie/composers/joan-trimble

Ina Boyle

http://www.inaboyle.org/

Music

• Ann Cleare - Glór / Voice, Gavan Ring (voice), Louise Thomas (piano) - 00:02
• Ann Cleare - Eyam V, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra - 3:25, 12:04
• Andrew Hamilton - An dóigh leat? Do you think?, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 14:22, 16:06
• Jennifer Walshe - 12 Amhrán Faoi Athrú Aeráide / 12 Climate Change Songs, Anna Devin (voice), John Hess (piano) - 19:04
• John Kinsella - Bóithre Bána / White Roads, Gavan Ring (voice), Louise Thomas (piano) - 22:11
• Ryan Molloy - Ceoltóir na nÉan / Bird Singer, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 23:20, 24:28
• Linda Buckley - Sólás / Solace, Rachel Kelly (voice), John Hess (piano) - 28:21, 30:02
• Joan Trimble - Green Rain, Carolyn Dobbin (voice), Iain Burnside (piano) - 32:22
• Ina Boyle - Symphony No. 1 ‘Glencree’ (second movement), RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conductor Kenneth Montgomery - 34:46, 45:56
• Ina Boyle - Sleep Song, Aylish Kerrigan (voice), Dearbhla Collins (piano) - 41:02
• Joan Trimble - Girl’s Song, Carolyn Dobbin (voice), Iain Burnside (piano) - 43:27