Composers like birds!
About this Event
This summer, the Irish Youth Choir will present an incredible programme of wonderful pieces, each one featuring birds - either tucked away in the background or strutting centre-stage.
Whether pieces are from the 1400s or 2021, or by Panufnik or Brahms, there’s a bird in there, somewhere. They appear in music that profoundly celebrates the whole wide world of nature. Sometimes they just sit above, wry observers of the canoodling behaviour of human lovers, and at other times they are feathered symbols of freedom or longing. And sometimes they are simply themselves, the stars in beautiful music that’s all about them.
It will be challenging and great fun to perform this amazing programme which includes four pieces never before performed in Ireland, two of them never performed before anywhere!
- Irish premiere: Roxanna Panufnik Celestial Bird
- Jacob Archadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno
- Caroline Shaw And the Swallow
- Brahms O schöne Nacht
- Irish premiere: Jake Runestad Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Arr. Robert Sund Alouette
- Michael McGlynn Eirí na Gréine
- Rutter Sing a Song of Sixpence
- Rutter It was a lover and his lass
- Monteverdi Quel augellin che canta
- World premiere: Arr. Eoin Conway *Sweet Lemany
- Seán Doherty Under-Song
- World premiere: Seán Doherty *The Peace You Hold
- Stanford The Blue Bird
*Commissioned by the Irish Youth Choir 2021
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch Place, Dublin 8, Ireland
EUR 12.00 to EUR 15.00