Category: music
#MarianMay , “Stabat Mater”, Giuseppe Verdi
A whole series of posts of settings of “Stabat Mater” could be made…Pergolesi, Haydn, Dvorâk, Rossini, Poulenc, Arvo Pärt. Here, from his late Four Sacred Pieces, is Verdi’s – which,…
# MarianMay – “Ave Maria” composed Camille Saint-Saëns, arranged Douglas J Walczak performed by William Ferris Chorale
The William Ferris Chorale is a Chicago-based vocal group, specialising in little-performed works by contemporary or Twentieth Century composers. Here they are, however, with a well known composer. Camille Saint-Saëns…
#MarianMay “A Mhuire Mhathair”
Interestingly, “A Mhuire Mhathair” is not a traditional Irish hymn, but the result in the 1970s of setting an Irish text to the Maori tune Pokarekare Ana :
“mar nach mbeidh ‘chuile mháthair mar sin lena mac féin?” #MarianMay – “Caoineadh Na Tri Mhuire” (The Lament of the Three Marys) , Joe Heaney
Joe Heaney was a sean-nos singer born just over one hundred years ago near Carna in Connemara. He sang in both Irish and English, and would contribute to John Cage’s…
“Birds of the Air”, Sharron Krauss
This haunting song reminds me of the eerie folk of the seventies – especially, for some reason, Magnet’s ‘Willow’s Song” from The Wicker Man (if you have seen the movie…
Three Victor Silvester songs for May 10th
Deep Purple/Soir Indigo: Information from the YouTube page of the above: “Deep Purple” composed by Peter De Rose was first published in 1933. The piano composition became very popular…
#MarianMay , “Ave Maria”, Krzysztof A Janczak
From the contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof A Janczak here is a timeless sounding (yet of its time) Ave Maria:
Séamus Sweeney 