[Celtic] Donnacha Dennehy - Grá agus Bás (2011)

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Donnacha Dennehy - Grá agus Bás (2011)
Contemporary Classical, Vocal | Nonesuch | 2011 | 58:46 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Booklet | MU | 379 MB
Iarla O’Lionáird (voice), Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Crash Ensemble, Alan Pierson, conductor

“Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy (b. 1970), whom the New Yorker has called "a star of Dublin's active new music scene," makes his Nonesuch debut with Grá agus Bás. This ambitious set features a pair of dramatic pieces written for two very different but equally extraordinary voices - former Afro-Celt Sound System vocalist Iarla O’Lionáird and American soprano, and Nonesuch label-mate, Dawn Upshaw. Often described as a post-minimalist, Dennehy, says British music magazine The Wire, "has a sound world all his own." Here he uses elements of Irish traditional culture as a springboard to create work with no visible roots - a borderless music that is mysterious and elegiac, as deeply moving as it is utterly transfixing.
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