DIACD034  |  8th October 2021

Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble

A Terrible Beauty

“A vitality and confidence in contemporary Irish music fully at ease with its multi-accented voice and wider relationship with Europe and beyond.”

Limelight Magazine

“..an extraordinary demonstration of the sheer range of colour it is possible to extract from this type of ensemble.”

Journal of Music

Music

  1. Beneath the Dark Blue Waves – Mvt I (J. O’Leary) |
  2. Beneath the Dark Blue Waves – Mvt II (J. O’Leary) |
  3. Phosphenes (A. Rooney) |
  4. Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder – Mvt I: Snow Flurry (J. Buckley) |
  5. Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder – Mvt II: Black Widow (J. Buckley) |
  6. Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder – Mvt III: Streetcar (J. Buckley) |
  7. Nine Looks at Pierrot (F. Corcoran) |
  8. A Terrible Beauty – Mvt I (G. Caffrey) |
  9. A Terrible Beauty – Mvt II (G. Caffrey) |
  10. A Terrible Beauty – Mvt III (G. Caffrey) |
  11. Found Sounds Lost (I. McCurdy) |
  12. LUCA (G. Mulvey) |
  13. A Battuta (K. O’Connell) |
  14. William Scott – Mvt I (G. Caffrey) |
  15. William Scott – Mvt II (G. Caffrey) |
  16. William Scott – Mvt III (G. Caffrey) |
  17. The Zeddy Dance (S. Mawhinney) |
  18. Gortnagarn II (R. Molloy) |
  19. Non Stop (R. Clarke) |

Performers

  • Aisling AgnewFlutes
  • Will CurranClarinet
  • Sarah WattsClarinets
  • Joanne Quigley-McParland, Ciaran McCabeViolin
  • Dave McCann, Thomas Jackson, Adrian MantuVioloncello
  • Daniel BrowellPiano
  • Alex PetcuPercussion
  • Sinead HayesConductor
  • Chloé MorrisonManager

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    Credits

    • Recorded by Chris Corrigan, Oisin Jayat, Chanel McManus, Caolan McCauley, Amber Rhodes, Ross Lavery
    • Mixed by Chris Corrigan
    • Mastered by Christoph Stickel
    • Cover art by Paula Caffrey
    • Designed by Max Franosch
    • Produced by Nick Roth