#3713: New Music from Ireland Part 1

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, 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.

PROGRAM #3713 New Music from Ireland Part 1 (First aired on 4/13/2015)  

ARTIST: The Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
WORK: Irene Buckley: Choral [5:37]
RECORDING: new music::new Ireland two
SOURCE: Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland
INFO: cmc.ie

ARTIST: Emma Nash, soprano and Rhoda Dullea, organ
WORK: Irene Buckley: Lux Aeterna [2:53]
RECORDING: From “The Passion of Joan of Arc” score
SOURCE: Soundcloud

ARTIST: RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
WORK: Irene Buckley: Stórr [9:07]
RECORDING:  Soundcloud

ARTIST: Irene Buckley; James McVinnie, organ
WORK: Irene Buckley: Waiting [5:36]
RECORDING: From “The Fall of the House of Usher” score
SOURCE: Vimeo

ARTIST: Irene Buckley
WORK: October [3:06]
RECORDING: Soundcloud

ARTIST: Ergodos Musicians
WORK: Garrett Sholdice: Song for Magister Léonin [5:19]
RECORDING: All the Ends of the Earth
SOURCE: Ergodos
INFO: ergodos.ie/shop

ARTIST: Ergodos Musicians
WORK: Benedict Schlepper-Connolly: All the Ends of the Earth, excerpt [4:12]
RECORDING: All the Ends of the Earth
SOURCE: Ergodos
INFO: ergodos.ie/shop