Forgotten Peoples | Chamber Choir Ireland and Gabriel Crouch

Music about home and the search for belonging.

Veljo Tormis' Forgotten Peoples is a collection of songs preserving the rich folklore of several vanishing cultures along the Gulf on Finland.

These delightful and varied folk songs include creation myths, wedding songs, and lullabies, as well as songs about the natural world around us: birds, animals, changing seasons, life and death in the country.

Woven among these folk tunes, selections from Michael Gordon's Anonymous Man follow the composer's changing New York neighbourhood, from industrial warehouse district to residential area.

Emma O'Halloran's gone draws on the words of people who have experienced homelessness in Ireland over the past decade, offering us fragments of real lived experiences through a collage of direct quotes.

Franciso del Pino's Index honours the story of the Irish diaspora in Argentina, and the thousands of Irish emigrants who arrived in the port of Buenos Aires in the 19th century.

Join Ireland's national chamber choir and conductor Gabriel Crouch for an evening of music that is both joyful and poignant, quirky and heartfelt.

Programme

Veljo Tormis (Estonia, 1930-2017)—Selections from Forgotten Peoples - Votic Wedding Songs

Veljo Tormis—Selections from Forgotten Peoples - Livonian Heritage

Emma O’Halloran (Ireland, b.1985)—gone

Veljo Tormis—Selections from Forgotten Peoples - Vepsian Paths

Michael Gordon (USA, b.1956)—Selections from Anonymous Man

Veljo Tormis—Selections from Forgotten Peoples - Karelian Destiny

Francisco del Pino (Argentina, b.1980)—Index

Veljo Tormis—Selections from Forgotten Peoples - Ingrian Evenings

This programme is c. 1hr 10 min in duration, with no interval.