RIAM guitar teacher, Benjamin Dwyer, has a new CD of Irish Guitar Works which is now available in the RIAM Library. The CD includes John Buckley’s Guitar Sonata No 1, as well as Ben’s own compositions: 12 Studies for Guitar and Guitar Quintet.
Other recordings of Ben’s music in the RIAM Library include:
Contemporary Music from Ireland. Volume 7
Also, check out Benjamin Dwyer’s book on John Buckley, Constellations: the life and music of John Buckley.
Best of luck to the 4th Year BA students who will be giving their concerto performances in the National Concert Hall on Tuesday, 8th May.
If you can’t wait until then, check out Naxos Music Library for recordings of the 4 concertos. They are:
Haydn: Scena di Berenice
Ibert: Flute Concerto
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1, op 107
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2, op 102
All performance students might also be interested in this Reading List that we have put together. These books offer strategies and techniques for getting the best out of your performance!
Claire Duff of the Irish Baroque Orchestra is leading a series of workshops on Baroque performance practice on the following dates:
Thursday, 3rd May: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Thursday, 10th May: 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Sunday, 13th May, 2.30pm to 5.30pm
A concert featuring the works of Vivaldi, Uccellini, Handel, Purcell and Castello will then take place on the 14th May at 7.30pm in the Organ Room.
The following books on Baroque performance are available in the RIAM Library.
Baroque string playing for ingenious learners / by Judy Tarling
A performer’s guide to music of the Baroque era / by Anthony Burton
Performing Baroque music / by Mary Cyr
String playing in Baroque music / by Robert Donington
The keyboard music of J. S. Bach / by David Schulenberg
The interpretation of early music / by Robert Donington
Bach’s solo violin works : a performer’s guide / by Jaap Schröder
In the lead-up to the exams, we will be extending our opening hours on Tuesday and Wednesday over the next couple of weeks. The extended hours are as follows (this applies to the weeks beginning Monday 30 April and 7 May) :
Mon – 10.00 – 1.00 ; 2.00 – 6.00
Tue – 10.00 – 7.00
Wed – 10.00 – 7.00
Thu – 10.00 – 8.00
Fri – 10.00 – 6.00
Sat – 10.00 – 1.00 ; 2.00 – 5.00
The following are just some of the items that have recently been added to the RIAM Library.
You can check out all the New Arrivals on the Library Catalogue.
Dublin: One City, One Book encourages everyone to read the same book during the month of April each year. The chosen book for April 2012 is Dubliners by James Joyce. Check out a copy of Dubliners from the RIAM Library now, and for more information on the special events that are going on around the city, visit the One City One Book website at http://www.dublinonecityonebook.ie
The JSMI has recently published Hugh Tinney’s review of “Music and Sentiment” by Charles Rosen.
You can read Hugh’s full review online at:
http://www.music.ucc.ie/jsmi/index.php/jsmi/article/view/91/98
The book itself is in the RIAM library, and you can check its current availability here.
Polish composer Karol Szymanowski died on this day 75 years ago.
Szymanowski was a founder member of the Młoda Polska (Young Poland) movement in 1905. His early style was very similar to Chopin and Scriabin, with a middle period assimilating influences from Debussy and Ravel and a sparer late style incorporating Polish folk music.
You can view some of our holdings related to Szymanowski by following the links below:
Check out the April edition of Opera magazine which has a review of the Academy’s production of Semele. Ian Fox commends the young artists’ “mature singing and acting” and “fine touch for comedy.” Read the full review now in the library.
Added to the RIAM Library collection this month, the following books all have an Irish theme:
The companion to Irish traditional music / Fintan Vallelly
This second edition is not only revised but also greatly expanded, and has much new information, including material never before printed and unavailable elsewhere. In 1,750 individual articles The Companion gives A-Z coverage of song, dance, instruments, bands, storytelling, technology, tunes and style, composition, organisations and promotion, education and transmission, collectors and archives, revival, broadcasting and recording, English, Scottish and Welsh music and song, and music in all Irish counties, Europe and the USA. The book is uniquely backed by the provision of a parallel website – www.companion.ie – which guides structured exploration of the text and fully integrates it with the existing vast and magnificent range of traditional music internet resources.
(Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2011)
Music has been performed in oral tradition in Ireland now for some ten thousand years, but it was 1724 before the first notated collection of Irish music appeared. Consisting of forty-nine tunes and far older than any surviving manuscript collection, A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes Proper for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy was published that year in the yard of Christ Church Cathedral in central Dublin by the musical-instrument makers John and William Neal, a father and son of obscure origins who dominated the Dublin music trade in the first half of the eighteenth century.
(Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive, 2011)
This illustrated record of the life and songs of Eddie Butcher (1900–1980), an outstanding singer from Magilligan, Co Derry, brings back a vanished way of rural life and verbal entertainment. Hugh Shields (1929–2008) was teaching in Coleraine when he first met Eddie in Magilligan in 1953. Their musical friendship continued until Eddie’s death. During this period, Hugh recorded and published a large repertory of songs from Eddie. The words and notated music of 67 unpublished songs, together with stories and recollections, are given in this book. It is accompanied by three CDs with Eddie’s singing of all the songs.
