Dennehy
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Land of Winter is typically oblique while being utterly direct – and wonderfully subtle, with a palette that combines Dennehy’s keen poetic awareness of his Irish roots with his fine, spectral... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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New. America/Beautiful
Min Kwon, Graeme Steele Johnson, Brian Hong, Yoon Kwon Costello, Siwoo Kim, Andy Lin, Nan-Cheng Chen, Stephen Costello (tenor)
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New. 25x25
Kelly Watkins, Nathalie Joachim, Angélica Negrón, Cristina Altamura, Beth Meyers, Shodekeh Talifero, Bora Yoon, Michael J. Love, Jason Treuting, Vân-Ánh Võ, Alicia Olatuja, Mika Godbole, Elijah Shina, Luca Morante, Petra Elak, Amy Garapic, Sō Percussion, Bergamot Quartet, JACK Quartet
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Coming soon. Donnacha Dennehy: Limina
Eliza McCarthy (piano), Stephen Waarts (violin), National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, Ryan McAdams
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Katherine Manley and Iarla Ó Lionáird bring tremendous colour and clarity to the storytelling. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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This quartet’s taste in repertoire runs toward post-Minimalist composers who work with melody — and an edge. The pop-style rhythmic fury of Judd Greenstein’s “Four on the Floor” is exhilarating. —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Donnacha Dennehy: Grá agus Bás
Iarla O’Lionáird (voice), Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Crash Ensemble, Alan Pierson
[Grá agus Bás]...is a powerful symbiosis of old and new: modal inflections and reflections driven forward by muscular post-minimalist patterns and processes. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Dennehy: The First Child
Sarah Shine (soprano), Emmett O'Hanlon (baritone), Caia Leseure, Niamh O'Sullivan (mezzo-soprano), Dean Power (tenor), Joan Sheehy, Irish National Opera, Crash Ensemble, Irish National Opera Children's Choir, Ryan McAdams
Dennehy's striking music supplies the right balance of tension and emotional release: the score is characterised by percussive forward propulsion and sinewy unease, with the use of microtonal... —
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Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger
Iarla Ó Lionárd (vocals), Katherine Manley (soprano), Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson
The Hunger features an eerily spectral, hollowed-out soundscape consisting of convulsive microtonal pulsing in woodwind and brass against uneasy shifting microtonal oscillations, disembodied... —
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