The Green Road

Join Ireland's national chamber choir for a journey into nature—featuring the world premiere of Eoghan Desmond's Guthanna ar an gCnoc.

Led by Eamonn Dougan of The Sixteen Chamber Choir Ireland explores the beauty of nature and our relationship to the environment in The Green Road.

Cecilia McDowall's The skies in their magnificence is a setting of part of Thomas Traherne’s poem Wonder expressing awe and joy at the beauty of the skies.

Kenneth Leighton's setting of God's Grandeur—a poem written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution—marvels at the magnificence of the natural world and despairs at our disconnection from it.

Bernard Hughes' Precious Things revolves around three precious but diminishing natural resources: gold helium and oil.

Cipriano de Rore's Descendi in hortum meum depicts a lush garden in bloom in a setting of Song of Solomon.

Finally witness the world premiere of a new commission by Eoghan Desmond Guthanna ar an gCnoc (Voices on the Hill).

This setting of 6 Irish language poems by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin takes the listener on a climb up Mount Brandon—a spiritual journey away from the modern industrial world returning to a state of harmony with nature and beginning "a new life" on "the green road”.

Programme

Cecilia McDowall (UK b. 1951)—The skies in their magnificence

God’s Grandeur—Kenneth Leighton (UK 1929-1988)

Precious Things—Bernard Hughes (UK b.1974)

Descendi in hortum meum—Cipriano de Rore (Belgium 1516-1565)

Guthanna ar an gCnoc—Eoghan Desmond (Ireland b. 1989) WORLD PREMIERE

This duration of this concert is approximately 1 hour with no interval.

Host or Publisher Chamber Choir Ireland