#ClockworkMusic with Zoltán Kodály and Fulvio Caldini
In case Choral March has been a little bit too, well, choral, here are a couple of purely instrumental pieces with a theme of clocks and clockwork. First, the Musical…
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#ChoralMarch – March 16th, “Dúlamán”, UCD Choral Scholars
Having blogged lately about UCD Choral Scholars and their album of Irish and Scottish choral works, I have great pleasure to find they have a new album just out – Perpetual…
#ChoralMarch, March 13th, In Paradisum, Fauré (from “Requiem”) performed by Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
I first encountered this piece of music in Terence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line”, in early scenes portraying the initially pacific encounter between US military scouts and the inhabitants of…
#ChoralMarch 11th: “De Angelis”, Moines de Santo Domingo de Silos
Holding the title of having recorded the best-selling Gregorian Chant album of all time, the Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo de Silos have been described as : The ensemble is not…
#ChoralMarch – March 10th “Mó Ghile Mhear” (arranged Desmond Earley), UCD Choral Scholars
This ChoralMarch series probably wouldn’t exist were it not for Desmond Earley and the UCD Choral Scholars. A few years back they released a CD of choral works from Ireland…
#ChoralMarch: March 8th: “Black Christ of the Andes (St Martin De Porres)”, Mary Lou Williams
I’m conscious that some readers may find the music featured in Choral March excessively pious (of course, some may find it not pious enough) If these readers are unfamiliar with…
#choralmarch March 6th, “Hark! I Hear the Harps eternal”, Chanticleer
Around 2005/06 I picked up a freebie Naxos sampler CD which featured, amongst other gems, a wonderful version of “Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal” by a mixed-sex choir whose…
#ChoralMarch, March 5th, “Kyrie”, Schola Gregoriana Hispana
Schola Gregoriana Hispana are a group ” founded and directed by Francisco Javier Lara in 1984 and born with the aim of rescuing from oblivion, neglect and ignorance the great musical treasure…
Séamus Sweeney 