Name: Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet At St.Nicholas LCMS by Eamonn Quinn
Duration: 26 min 7 s
Description: New version of Gavin Bryars classic Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet. The performance was a collaboration between Music Generation Louth and Louth Contemporary Music Society. The musicians were the students of St. Malachy's Girls School Dundalk and all the musicians who took part in the festival in 2018. The workshops were delivered by Kathy Prince with input from the composer Gavin Bryars

Recorded with a pair of High End Contact Mics on Sound Devices 702 Recorder.

Dundalk Wind Turbine recorded with Contact Mics

American Dream
music by Scott Wollschleger
performed by Bearthoven (Karl Larson, piano; Pat Swoboda, double bass; and Matt Evans, percussion)

From Scott Wollschleger's second album, American Dream, released on Cantaloupe Music:
https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/american-dream

American Dream (measures 219-392)

Dark Days
music by Scott Wollschleger

Performed by Karl Larson

Dark Days is the title track of the album, Dark Days. Available on New Focus Recordings.
https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/scott-wollschleger-karl-larson-dark-days/

Dark Days

Rational Basis for 8 electric guitars performed by the Los Angeles Electric 8: Gabriel Deutsch, Nicholas Deyoe, Tom Frazer, Jeremy Kerner, Eric Kiersnowski, Andy Lee, Felix Salazar, JohnPaul Trotter. On Guitars & Gamelan from MicroFest Records.

Rational Basis

pero están (1994)
Intérpretes: Ensamble CG (Colombia)
Beatriz Elena Martínez, voz
Laura Cubides, flauta
Olga Marulanda, oboe
Compositora: Graciela Paraskevaídis (Argentina-Uruguay, 1940)

Concierto en el marco de las Jornadas de Música Contemporánea CCMC 2015

Graciela Paraskevaídis, pero están / Ensamble CG

Video: https://youtu.be/qnpk_mk57-M

“…eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the guilty man, for one night givest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed pure of blood...."

Thomas De Quincey (1821)

The title of my string quartet piece is drawn from Thomas De Quincey’s "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821). "Confessions" is an autobiographical account of De Quincey’s struggles with opium addiction. He took the drug in the form of laudanum, a popular opium tincture. De Quincey meditates first on the pleasures of opium, describing its effectiveness in aiding sleep, fostering a sense of wellbeing and assuaging psychological disquiet. He goes on to chart the decline of such pleasures into nightmarish visions, hallucinations and physical frailty. In the early 1800s little was known about the effects of narcotics: "Confessions" was one of the first publications to offer a systematic study of their regular use.

I was intrigued by the fact that Beethoven’s late quartets were published in the same decade as De Quincey’s famous work. In 'The Opium-Eaters' I respond to these two outputs, quietly exploring the idea of the epiphanic moment. The performers are asked to face inwards, a position that string quartets would have adopted when playing from the table music stands of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

'The Opium-Eaters' was premiered by the Escher String Quartet in Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, March 2016. This recording is shared with their kind permission.

The Opium-Eaters (2016)

Song nr. 9 from Niels Rønsholdt's 'Songs of Doubt (Prospect / Retrospect)' studio album released 2017 by Dacapo Records with Roderick Povel, Nathalie Forget and Studium Chorale conducted by Hans Leenders.
Buy / stream the album at your preferred place.

Niels Rønsholdt: Songs of Doubt - 9. The Rain

Graciela Paraskevaídis (Buenos Aires, 1940; Montevideo, 2017)
un par (2015)

I.  sotto voce
II. mezza voce

Agustín Texeira (piano)

Estreno en concierto del Núcleo Música Nueva, en mayo de 2015 en sala Zitarrosa, Montevideo.

un par (Graciela Paraskevaídis)

New version of Gavin Bryars classic Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet. The performance was a collaboration between Music Generation Louth and Louth Contemporary Music Society. The musicians were the students of St. Malachy's Girls School Dundalk and all the musicians who took part in the festival in 2018. The workshops were delivered by Kathy Prince with input from the composer Gavin Bryars

Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet At St.Nicholas LCMS

The Sacrificial Code

Kali Malone - Litanic Cloth Wrung (from "The Sacrificial Code" iDEAL 2xLP/3xCD)

Milk spilt on a stone (2017) 
for saxophone quartet

Helga Arias (1984)
web: www.helgaarias.com

Work commissioned by the BBVA Foundation (Spain)
Dedicated to the SIGMA Project and premiered by the quartet on April 25, 2017, in the VII Contemporary Music Series of the BBVA Foundation in Bilbao.

Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet At St.Nicholas LCMS

Eamonn Quinn

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