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Donnacha Dennehy<\/strong> Land of Winter Alarm Will Sound\/Alan PiersonNonesuch 7559789949\u00a0\u00a0\u00a053:51 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <\/figure> Clip: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter, II. January<\/h6> The Larne-born musicologist Bob Gilmore (1961-2015) once observed that Donnacha Dennehy (b1970) writes \u2018music that deals with big issues, but has such an appealingly odd way of addressing them.\u2019\u00a0Land of Winter<\/em>\u00a0(2022) is typically oblique while being utterly direct \u2013 and wonderfully subtle, with a palette that combines Dennehy\u2019s keen poetic awareness of his Irish roots with his fine, spectral ear for the physical properties of sound, and love of pulse-driven post-minimalism.<\/p> Irish classical music… how it developed and the best Irish composers<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> The land of the title is Ireland, seen through shivering, ancient Roman eyes: \u2018Hibernia\u2019, its cold seeming to penetrate every month of the year. Dennehy has professed a fascination with weather both literal and metaphorical, and here it\u2019s the interplay of light and time that underpins his 12, through-composed movements, \u2018from the shorter days of grey or piercing light in the winter to the much longer, warmer but mercurial light of summer.\u2019<\/p> The result is a propulsive yet static, intensely melancholic yet knowingly playful cycle for large ensemble that starts with December and only nominally ends with November. Overlapping layers of sounds, colours and rhythms expand and contract \u2013 both vertically and horizontally, as sheets and spatters of modal-microtonal rain fall on surfaces born from aeons of shifting subterranean strata.<\/p> Alarm Will Sound are excellent under conductor Alan Pierson: from piccolo to contra bassoon<\/a> via inventively muted brass, strings and bowed, sometimes thudding percussion. 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The Larne-born musicologist Bob Gilmore (1961-2015) once observed that Donnacha Dennehy (b1970) writes \u2018music that deals with big issues, but has such an appealingly odd way of addressing them.\u2019\u00a0Land of Winter<\/em>\u00a0(2022) is typically oblique while being utterly direct \u2013 and wonderfully subtle, with a palette that combines Dennehy\u2019s keen poetic awareness of his Irish roots with his fine, spectral ear for the physical properties of sound, and love of pulse-driven post-minimalism.<\/p> Irish classical music… how it developed and the best Irish composers<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> The land of the title is Ireland, seen through shivering, ancient Roman eyes: \u2018Hibernia\u2019, its cold seeming to penetrate every month of the year. Dennehy has professed a fascination with weather both literal and metaphorical, and here it\u2019s the interplay of light and time that underpins his 12, through-composed movements, \u2018from the shorter days of grey or piercing light in the winter to the much longer, warmer but mercurial light of summer.\u2019<\/p> The result is a propulsive yet static, intensely melancholic yet knowingly playful cycle for large ensemble that starts with December and only nominally ends with November. Overlapping layers of sounds, colours and rhythms expand and contract \u2013 both vertically and horizontally, as sheets and spatters of modal-microtonal rain fall on surfaces born from aeons of shifting subterranean strata.<\/p> Alarm Will Sound are excellent under conductor Alan Pierson: from piccolo to contra bassoon<\/a> via inventively muted brass, strings and bowed, sometimes thudding percussion. Through mist and shafts of sunlight, snippets of JS Bach\u2019s yearning advent chorale\u00a0Wie soll ich dich empfangen<\/em>\u00a0half-emerge, alongside the spectre of climate change.\u00a0Steph Power<\/em><\/p> <\/figure> Video: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Published: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at 11:20 AM Donnacha Dennehy Land of Winter Alarm Will Sound\/Alan PiersonNonesuch 7559789949\u00a0\u00a0\u00a053:51 mins\u00a0 Clip: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter, II. 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The land of the title is Ireland, seen through shivering, ancient Roman eyes: \u2018Hibernia\u2019, its cold seeming to penetrate every month of the year. Dennehy has professed a fascination with weather both literal and metaphorical, and here it\u2019s the interplay of light and time that underpins his 12, through-composed movements, \u2018from the shorter days of grey or piercing light in the winter to the much longer, warmer but mercurial light of summer.\u2019<\/p>
The result is a propulsive yet static, intensely melancholic yet knowingly playful cycle for large ensemble that starts with December and only nominally ends with November. Overlapping layers of sounds, colours and rhythms expand and contract \u2013 both vertically and horizontally, as sheets and spatters of modal-microtonal rain fall on surfaces born from aeons of shifting subterranean strata.<\/p>
Alarm Will Sound are excellent under conductor Alan Pierson: from piccolo to contra bassoon<\/a> via inventively muted brass, strings and bowed, sometimes thudding percussion. Through mist and shafts of sunlight, snippets of JS Bach\u2019s yearning advent chorale\u00a0Wie soll ich dich empfangen<\/em>\u00a0half-emerge, alongside the spectre of climate change.\u00a0Steph Power<\/em><\/p> <\/figure> Video: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Published: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at 11:20 AM Donnacha Dennehy Land of Winter Alarm Will Sound\/Alan PiersonNonesuch 7559789949\u00a0\u00a0\u00a053:51 mins\u00a0 Clip: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter, II. January The Larne-born musicologist Bob Gilmore (1961-2015) once observed that Donnacha Dennehy (b1970) writes \u2018music that deals with big issues, but has such an appealingly odd way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":50173,"template":"","categories":[1,79,19],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",900,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",900,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",900,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at 11:20 AM Donnacha Dennehy Land of Winter Alarm Will Sound\/Alan PiersonNonesuch 7559789949\u00a0\u00a0\u00a053:51 mins\u00a0 Clip: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter, II. January The Larne-born musicologist Bob Gilmore (1961-2015) once observed that Donnacha Dennehy (b1970) writes \u2018music that deals with big issues, but has such an appealingly odd way…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/50172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Video: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
By Published: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at 11:20 AM Donnacha Dennehy Land of Winter Alarm Will Sound\/Alan PiersonNonesuch 7559789949\u00a0\u00a0\u00a053:51 mins\u00a0 Clip: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter, II. January The Larne-born musicologist Bob Gilmore (1961-2015) once observed that Donnacha Dennehy (b1970) writes \u2018music that deals with big issues, but has such an appealingly odd way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":50173,"template":"","categories":[1,79,19],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",900,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",900,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/12\/donnacha-dennehy-land-of-winter-review.jpg",900,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 at 11:20 AM Donnacha Dennehy Land of Winter Alarm Will Sound\/Alan PiersonNonesuch 7559789949\u00a0\u00a0\u00a053:51 mins\u00a0 Clip: Donnacha Dennehy – Land of Winter, II. January The Larne-born musicologist Bob Gilmore (1961-2015) once observed that Donnacha Dennehy (b1970) writes \u2018music that deals with big issues, but has such an appealingly odd way…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/50172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}