Sunday, 4 October 2026, 4.00pm
Musici Ireland
Róisín O’Grady soprano
Sharon Carty mezzo soprano
Eamon Mulhall tenor
Kerenza Peacock – violin
Beth McNinch viola
Katie Tertell cello
Arvo Pärt ‘Es sang vor langen Jahren’ mezzo-soprano, violin and viola
Libby Croad ‘To Have Body from Chronically Hopeful (with voices)
Henry Purcell ‘Music for a while’ soprano & strings
Linda Buckley ‘Fiol’ for string trio
Deborah Pritchard ‘Vision’ (World Première)
Arvo Pärt ‘Stabat Mater’
This programme centres around two settings of ‘Stabat Mater’ a 13th century Latin hymn which translates as ‘the mother stood’ depicting the Virgin Mary’s sorrow as she stood at the foot of the cross as her son Jesus Christ was crucified. Written in 1985 Pärt’s Stabat Mater is composed in what he calls his ‘tintinnabuli’ style and bring us back to the liturgical roots: the purity of the thirteenth century. Music critic Robert R. Reilly wrote ‘It is not a study in musical archaism, but a living testimony of belief. This is music to listen to on your knees’.
Deborah Pritchard says of her setting entitled ‘Vision’: ‘The vision was to create a companion piece to the Pärt, responding to the sublime meaning illuminated in this 13th century hymn to Mary…… ‘
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