Contemporary Music Centre: amplify #50 - Elaine Agnew and Eoghan Desmond

Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson speak to two Irish composers with two brand new pieces for this year’s festival. Elaine Agnew on her new work Remarkable, created in response to stories shared during different stages of the pandemic, which features in Wednesday's concert The Voyage. Eoghan Desmond on his piece for choir and solo cello celebrating the life and legacy of Colmcille, part of Thursday's The Road Home concert.

Show notes

• City of Derry International Choir Festival
  • 2021 programme
  • 2021 podcast programme
• Eoghan Desmond
  • eoghandesmond.com
  • CMC composer page
• Elaine Agnew
  • elaineagnew.com
  • CMC composer page
  • Remarkable Project

Music Eoghan Desmond

• Oxen of the Sun (UCD Choral Scholars, Desmond Earley)
• Thomas Morley - Nolo mortem peccatoris
• Bach - Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 No.1
• The Morningstar (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier)
• This is My Prayer to Thee (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley)
• Mother Goose’s Melodies (Chamber Choir Ireland, Paul Hillier)
• Amra Choluim Chille – A Dheascabháil agus a Shaol (Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Ian Keatley) 

Elaine Agnew

• I am a Miracle (European Union Chamber Orchestra, St Colman’s College Choir, conductor Elaine Agnew)
• The God of Rain (RTÉ Cór na nÓg, Mary Amond O’Brien)
• Remarkable (Remarkable Voices, Codetta, Ulster Orchestra, Dónal Doherty)
• Child Within (Cantairí Óga Átha Cliath, Bernie Sherlock)
• Turnabout (Belfast Philharmonic Youth Choir and Belfast Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Lynsey Callaghan)