amplify #50 - interviews with Elaine Agnew and Eoghan Desmond for City of Derry International Choir Festival

Episode 50 of CMC's podcast 'amplify' features a special episode produced for the 2021 City of Derry International Choir Festival. Jonathan Grimes and Evonne Ferguson speak to Elaine Agnew and Eoghan Desmond, two of the Irish composers whose work is programmed in this year's festival.

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, Donal Doherty)
• Child Within (Cantairí Óga Átha Cliath, Bernie Sherlock)
• Turnabout (Belfast Philharmonic Youth Choir and Belfast Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Lynsey Callaghan)