Alarm Will Sound -The Hunger -NONESUCH CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

01. "I have seen and handled the black bread"

02. "I feared he would die"

03. "Black potatoes"

04. "Keening"

05. "Dreadful winter"

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.. Hunger / Alan Pierson/ Katherine Manley

Description:

Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger explores Ireland's Great Famine. Performed by Alarm Will Sound led by Alan Pierson, soprano Katherine Manley, and sean nÃ³s singer Iarla Ã? LionÃ¡ird, the libretto draws from first-hand accounts by American humanitarian Asenath Nicholson. The Hunger "bears hearing and rehearing," said the Washington Post. "It is powerful, and it makes a statement." As Dennehy explains, "The Famine was a topic I had wanted to address in my music for a long time. Only when I discovered Asenath Nicholson's Annals of the Famine in Ireland, published in 1851, was a route unlocked for me. Her astonishing first-hand accounts became the piece's main narrative thread. She made the arduous journey from the U.S. to Ireland, when countless others were going in the opposite direction, and traversed the entire country, often on foot, and often staying in the homes of the suffering, in order to chronicle the conditions of starving Irish people." Alarm Will Sound is a twenty-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music, gaining a reputation for performing demanding works with energetic skill. - .. HUNGER / ALAN PIERSON/KATHERINE MANLEY

2019 release. "The version of The Hunger that is presented on this recording is the concert version of the piece, which I made in 2017-18. The Hunger also exists in an extended version for stage (completed in 2016, revised 2019), incorporating video interviews with economists, historians and philosophers. In the concert version, I dispense with this strand to concentrate entirely on the intersecting narrative developing between Mrs. Nicholson and the old, dying Irish man. More is implied rather than stated in this version. The Hunger was commissioned by Alarm Will Sound, and has received financial assistance from New Music USA, The MAP Fund, and the Arts Council of Ireland. The Hunger also incorporates material from a stand-alone piece, If he died what then, based on a section of Asenath Nicholson's text, that I originally wrote for Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra). The Hunger is dedicated to Courtney Orlando." -Donnacha Dennehy.

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7559792515

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