Ich Ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ
29 August 2010
For the Ergodos Festival MMX, we asked a number of composers to transcribe or re-arrange Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale harmonisation of ‘Ich Ruf’ zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ’. This is Jonathan Nangle’s piano trio arrangement; we will post the others in due course.
Invocation in Amsterdam
29 August 2010
In December 2008, Trio Scordatura played a concert of music from Ireland at Amsterdam’s De Badcuyp. Here is Alfrun Schmid’s performance of Invocation from that concert, an intense, haunting work by Enda Bates. The text is from the Carmina Gadelica, a collection of Scotish folksongs, prayers and charms recorded by Alexander Carmichael between 1855 and 1910.
Contemporary Music Centre interview about Dubh
27 July 2010
Ich Ruf Zu Dir
9 March 2010
As part of the Ergodos Festival MMX, three living composers have made arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach’s setting of the chorale ‘Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ’. Film nuts might be familiar with the haunting tune from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film, Solaris. Garrett Sholdice’s arrangement is for solo piano – in it he strips away the inner voices, leaving only the melody and a skeletal bass line, and it’s exquisitely slow. Here’s a recording made by Stef Conner.
Oshu Saji
21 January 2010
Shakuhachi player Joseph Browning playing Oshu Saji (trad. Japanese) at the National Concert Hall, Dublin as part of Ergodos Festival 2009. In his introduction, he says, ‘This is an old Japanese piece… It’s shaped like three valleys, it starts very low, goes very high and goes low. So it looks like hills and valleys. And, there’s lots of undulating vibrato in the hills and valleys, which is supposed to sound like shomyo, Japanese Buddhist chant… perhaps.’
