History as contested ground: Donnacha Dennehy's opera The Hunger, featuring interviews with the composer, Iarla Ó Lionáird and director Tom Creed, and remembering Colin Mawby (1936-2019) - amplify #4

Episode 4 of CMC’s fortnightly podcast features interviews with Donnacha Dennehy, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Tom Creed on Dennehy’s recent opera, ‘The Hunger’, and former RTÉ producer and RTÉ lyric fm station head Seamus Crimmins on composer and choral conductor Colin Mawby, who died recently.

Production - Jonathan Grimes
Recording and editing - Keith Fennell

The feature on Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger was devised and researched by Maynooth University music lecturer and researcher, Stephanie Ford.

Show Notes

Donnacha Dennehy
www.donnachadennehy.com

Iarla Ó Lionáird
iarla.com

Tom Creed
tomcreed.org

The Hunger - Abbey Theatre
www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/the-hunger

Music

The Hunger

• The Hunger: Black Potatoes, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 00:02, 20:28, 23:23, 28:39
• The Hunger: I Feared He Would Die, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 06:17, 26:18
• Grá agus Bás, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Crash Ensemble, conductor Alan Pierson - 09:09, 12:38, 15:55
• Stainless Staining, Lisa Moore - 14:52
• Grá agus Bás, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Crash Ensemble, conductor Alan Pierson - 15:55
• The Hunger: I Have Seen and Handled the Black Bread, Katherine Manley, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson 17:20
• The Hunger: The Keening, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Katherine Manley, Alarm Will Sound, conductor Alan Pierson - 31:44

Colin Mawby

• Ave verum corpus, Westminster Catherdral Choir, City of London Sinfonia, conductor James O’Donnell - 32:51, 41:16
• When David Heard, Chamber Choir Ireland - 36:49
• O magnum mysterium, Kölner Kantorei, conductor Volker Hempfling - 38:44