Grá agus Bás

Grá agus Bás

Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy, whom, the New Yorker has called <em>"a star of Dublin's active new music scene,"</em> makes his Nonesuch debut with <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Gra Agus Bas</span></strong>. This ambitious set features a pair of dramatic pieces written for two very different but equally extraordinary voices-former Afro-Celt Sound system vocalist Iarla O'Lionaird and American soprano, and Nonesuch label-mate, Dawn Upshaw. Often described as a post-minimalist, Dennehy, says British music magazine The Wire, <em>"has a sound world all his own." </em>Here he uses elements of Irish traditional culture as a springboard to create work with no visible roots-a borderless music that is mysterious and elegiac, as deeply moving as it is utterly transfixing.