Love and Other Nonsense
St Peter’s CoI, Drogheda
10 May 2013
St Thomas’ Parish Church, Belfast
11 May 2013
St Michael’s Church, Dún Laoghaire
23 June 2013
Programme
Orlando Gibbons—The Cries of London
Luciano Berio—The Cries of London (i-iv)
Erik Bergman—Galgenlieder
Peteris Vasks—Encounter
Rytis Mažulis—The dazzled eye lost its speech
Enda Bates—Euphony
Louis Andriessen—Un beau baiser
Siobhán Cleary—Theophilus Thistle and the Myth of Miss Muffet
Janequin—Le Chant des Oiseaux
Jehan Ariste Alain—Variations sur un theme de Clément Janequin
Martin O’Leary—Jubilate (World Premiere – commissioned to celebrate the 40th Dun Laoghaire Summer Concert Series)
Louis Vierne —Carillon de Westminster
Performers
Chamber Choir Ireland
Paul Hillier—Conductor
Fergal Caulfield—Organ (Dun Laoghaire Only)
This series of concerts straddles diverse European regions in a survey of some of hte great choral music fro mthe past five centuries emphasising the light and the humorous. From Orland Gibbons' The Cryes of London and Clémant Janequin's Le Chant des Oiseaux to Siobhán Cleary's very international and multilingual study of tongue-twisters Theophilus Thistle and the Myth of Miss Muffet!