Euroradio's RTÉ celebrates the Emerald Isle in music
28 March 2017
EBU broadcaster RTÉ has just released "Composing the Island: A Century of Music in Ireland", commemorating the start of Ireland's fight for independence in 1916. This comprehensive offer is now available in MUS to Euroradio Members and Associates under reference SM/17/03/12/01-25.
Over three weeks in September 2016 at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, "Composing the Island" presented a vast panorama of music by Irish composers written during the last century, honouring the country's vibrant artistic creativity, past and present. In all, the festival enabled audiences to hear over two dozen concerts of orchestral, choral, vocal and chamber music with almost 200 works by some 90 different Irish composers, ranging from such celebrated figures as Sir Arnold Bax and Charles Stanford to contemporary artists like John Kinsella and Ian Wilson.
The selection includes six concerts by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, as well as Chamber Choir Ireland, the Crash Ensemble, the Vanbrugh Quartet, music for winds by the Band of the Defence Forces School of Music, 21st-century piano pieces and, of course, Irish song recitals.
More information can be found on the programme's website and in the programme brochure.
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