Cross Currents: Episode 2
Cross Currents is a 3-part series narrated by award-winning actor Barry McGovern, exploring contemporary Irish composers and their work. Produced by Athena Media in association with the Contemporary Music Centre and RTÉ lyric fm.
The second programme explores the change of direction for Irish composers during the period and looks at some of the key motivations for this change. Beginning with well known electronic music composer Roger Doyle, who produced his first LP Oizzo No in 1975 and a follow-up release, Thalia, in 1978, the programme explores Doyle’s seemingly unorthodox approach to new music and its reception in Dublin in the 1970s.
Moving from Dublin to Germany, the programme focuses on the experiences there of Gerald Barry and Raymond Deane, both of whom studied in Cologne, then a hotbed of experimentalism in music and where an international community of composers converged. Also central to the changing face of new Irish music during this time was the establishment in 1976 of contemporary music ensemble, Concorde by US-born Jane O’Leary, an ensemble which continues to this day. Jane will talk about her first experiences of musical life in Ireland and will provide perspective on what it was like to be an unknown, American, female composer trying to follow her musical path in Ireland during the mid 1970s.
For more see www.crosscurrents.ie/episode-2/
Episode Playlist
Seóirse Bodley - A Small White Cloud Drifts over Ireland
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Robert Houlihan
A Small White Cloud Drifts over Ireland. RTÉ lyric fm. CD121
Frank Corcoran - Balthazar's Dream
Mad Sweeney’s Shadow. WWE 1CD 20214
Gerald Barry - ‘_____'
Nua Nos
Gerald Barry - Nua Nos. NMC Recordings. NMC D022
Raymond Deane - After Pieces
Raymond Deane
Contemporary Music from Ireland Vol. 1. CMC CD01
Linda Buckley - Revelavit
Michelle O'Rourke
All the ends of the earth. Ergodos. ER14
John Buckley - Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin
Alan Smale
Buckley Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin. CMC
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima etc. EMI. 7243 5 65077 2 2
Roger Doyle - Piano Suite
Rapid Eye Movements. Silverdoor Records. SIDO 013 CD
Jane O'Leary - Forgotten Worlds
Isabelle O'Connell
Reservoir. Diatribe Recordings. DIACDSOL001
Linda Buckley - Chiyo
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Garry Walker
new music::new Ireland one. CMC. nmni01
Mozart - Horn Quintet
David Pyatt, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields
Mozart: Horn Concertos 1-4; Horn Quintet. Elatus
Frank Corcoran - Three Pieces for Orchestra
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Pittman
RTÉ Archives
Frank Corcoran - Piano Trio
Hesketh Piano Trio
Mad Sweeney’s Shadow. Col Legno. WWE 1CD 20214
Witold Lutoslawski - Symphony No. 2
Polish National Radio Symphony, conductor Antoni Wit
LUTOSLAWSKI, W.: Symphony No. 2 / Little Suite / Symphonic Variations / Piano Concerto (Paleczny, Polish National Radio Symphony, Wit). Naxos. 8.553169
John Buckley - Taller than Roman Spears
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce
RTÉ Archives
John Kinsella - The Wayfarer
RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Janos Fürst
RTÉ Archives
Seoirse Bodley - Ceol: Symphony No. 3
Violet Twomey (S-solo), Bernadette Greevy (Mez-solo), Louis Browne (T-solo), Willliam Young (Bar-solo), RTÉ Singers, RTÉ Chorus , Our Lady's Choral Society, St Patrick's Cathedral Choir, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, conductor Colman Pearce, Aindreas Ó Gallchoir (speaker).
Two Irish Symphonies. RTÉ. 61 LP
John Cage - Roaratorio
John Cage - Roratorio. mode 28-29
Roger Doyle - Oizzo No
Oizzo No. DOM. BW03 / Artware 05
Frank Corcoran - Piano Trio
Hesketh Trio
Mad Sweeney’s Shadow. Col Legno. WWE 1CD 20214
Frank Corcoran - Mythologies
Roger Doyle
Collection One. Irish Composer Trust. ICT 01
John Buckley - Guitar Sonata No. 1
Benjamin Dwyer
Irish Guitar Works. El Cortijo.
Gerald Barry - The One Armed Pianist
Aurora Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Collon.
Objects at an Exhibition. NMC Records. NMC D215