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Release Date: 21 February 2025
Label: Voces8 Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060140212614
Description
Celebrating their twentieth anniversary, the internationally renowned Irish chamber choir New Dublin Voices and their conductor Bernie Sherlock present Snow Dance for the Dead - Choral Music by Sean Doherty. Sean Doherty is one of the most exciting Irish composers active today. New Dublin Voices has given the world premieres of six of his pieces and the Irish premieres of four more. Bernie Sherlock says, "an obvious aspect of the power of Sean's music is how the texts he chooses reflect his strong social conscience, his political insight and historical awareness, and his readiness to engage with difficult subject matter. He is often drawn to Irish poets, both living and dead, including W.B. Yeats, Paula Meehan, Brendan Kennelly, Eva Gore-Booth, and Katharine Tynan. He also has a special affinity with the obscure and intriguing Lola Ridge whose verses feature in no fewer than four of the pieces recorded here. "Something else that's so striking about Sean's music is its incredible range. While 'Snow Dance' leaves you devastated, a piece like 'Under-Song' transports you into the heart of nature and "It's Strange About Stars" places you beneath the sky at night. You can hear him poaching effects from pop music, for example in "Time" where he brilliantly recreates the way we perceive time at more than one speed. Sometimes the beauty he creates is simply heart-breaking, as in his arrangement of "Little Girl Blue"." Snow Dance for the Dead - Choral Music by Sean Doherty is New Dublin Voices' third consecutive album of music by Irish composers. The Times awarded five stars to the choir's 2017 disc of Christmas music from Ireland, Make We Merry, which it said "bubbles with energy and wit". VOCES8 Records will release Snow Dance for the Dead on 21st February 2025 with a launch concert by New Dublin Voices at MoLI, The Museum of Literature, on St. Stephens Green in Dublin.
Tracklisting
Davina Clarke
Daniela Mars & Paul Smith
Daniela Mars
VOCES8
Daniela Mars
Apollo5
Thomas Elwin and Lana Bode
New Dublin Voices
New Dublin Voices
RIAS Chamber Choir, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Lieb
Christopher Tyler Nickel
Polina Pastirchak, Anke Vondung, Sungmin Song, Milan Siljanov, Chorwerk Ruhr, Bochumer Symphoniker,
Kammerchor Stuttgart; Barockorchester Stuttgart; Frieder Bernius; Hannah Morrison; Franziska Bobe;
Choralchor der St. Johannis-Kantorei Rostock
Capella Daleminzia, Capella Vocale Waldheim, Rene Michael Roder
Gewandhaus Children's Choir, Frank-Steffen Elster, Gewandhaus Youth Choir, Gewandhaus Choir, Gregor
