O'Riada Orchestral Music

[james]

I see that a CD is being issued with Sean O'Riada's classical music ..

http://www.irishtradtunes.com/www/catal ... cts_id=333

"...
Nomos No.1 and his film score to Mise Éire were the most successful of his orchestral works and are presented on Seán Ó Riada: Orchestral Works in wonderful new performances with the RTÉ National Symphony and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Of Nomos No.1 one commentator, while noting its debt to the European tradition, wrote that ‘…it was unmistakably the work of a great Irishman and could have been written by no-one else’.

Nomas No.4 features Irish pianist Cathal Breslin and is unashamedly modern in conception and in the clarity of the writing for strings. Although it was composed over fifty years ago, there are echoes of Arvo Pärt’s bell-like tintinabulation in some of the piano passages. The other two works on Seán Ó Riada: Orchestral Works The Banks of the Sulán and Seoladh na nGamhan (The Herding of the Calves) are both pastoral in character. These complement perfectly the live bonus track, Noel Kelehan’s orchestral arrangement of Ó Riada’s original piano arrangement of Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland) sung by Seán Ó Sé.

1. Overture Olynthiac
2. The Banks of Sulan
3-10 Hercules Dux Ferrariae:Nomos No.1 for String Orchestra
11.Seoladh na nGamhan(The Herding of the Calves)
12-13 Nomos No.4 for Piano and Orchestra
14-18 Mise Eire(Orchestral Suite)
19. Mna na hEireann
..."

There used to be an LP of his music in the 1970'a called Vertical Man which included 'Hercules Dux Ferrariae' and Holderlinn songs [with -- I think -- Bernadette Greavy].

It would be great if they issued a CD on nomos no.2 which is a choral piece [it was played on rte radio in the early 1970's but seems to have disappeared completly].

By the way the new CD is available for pre-order on amamzon.co.uk

James

[fergus]

Thank you very much for that James. I will definitely keep an eye out for that one!

[Seán]

Thanks James.