Trueman: Olagon - A Cantata in Doublespeak / Eighth Blackbird

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Label
Cedille
Release Date
November 10, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LIONAIRD TRUEMAN
    • PERFORMER
      Eighth Blackbird, Trueman, Lionaird, Mhiollain, Mcdonagh, Gill, Gallicantus, Mudoon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 10, 2017
    • UPC
      735131917421
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDR 174
    • LABEL
      Cedille
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Pillow Talk

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    2. Part I: Introductions

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    3. Part I: Marbhan's Shadow

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Dan Trueman

    4. Part I: Being Only A Dame

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    5. Part I: A Queen Bee

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Gallicantus, Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Páidí Ó Lionáird, Peadar Ó Lionáird, Seán Ó Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    6. Part II: Stirrings I

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

    7. Part II: For Eons and Eons

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird

    8. Part II: Stirrings II

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

    9. Part II: Motet for Medhbh

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Gallicantus, Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    10. Part II: Níl Aon Ton-Ton

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird

    11. Part II: Stirrings III

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Dan Trueman

    12. Part II: You Know It's a Salmagundi

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    13. Part II: Stirrings IV

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Dan Trueman

    14. Part II: Marbhan and Guaire

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    15. Part III: Pillow Talk Reprise

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Dan Trueman

    16. Part III: Restless Rest

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Dan Trueman

    17. Part III: Ululations I

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Dan Trueman

    18. Part III: Zeus to my Demeter

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    19. Part III: Only on Medhbh

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Dan Trueman

    20. Part III: Ululations II

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Dan Trueman

    21. Part III: Reeling Reels

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Laura Gill, Michaela McDonagh, Dan Trueman

    22. Part III: Ailíll

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Michaela McDonagh, Dan Trueman

    23. Part III: The Book of Lamentations

      Composer: Dan Trueman, Iarla Ó'Lionáird

      Ensemble: Eighth Blackbird

      Performer: Iarla Ó'Lionáird, Laura Gill, Michaela McDonagh, Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, Dan Trueman


Olagón: a Cantata in Doublespeak is the newest album from multiple Grammy Award-winning chamber ensemble Eighth Blackbird. The project finds the innovative new-music sextet collaborating with vocalist Iarla Ó Lionaird of the Irish supergroup The Gloaming; Princeton-based composer-fiddler Dan Trueman; and Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon. A modern retelling of an ancient Irish epic, Olagón depicts — not without irony and humor — a privileged “power couple” mired in envy, greed, and adultery, descending into criminality and addiction as Ireland’s “Celtic-Tiger” economy collapses in the early 21st century. Trueman’s score combines elements of the traditional music of Ireland, Norway, and America with the raw urgency and sonorities of contemporary classical music. Muldoon’s text interweaves verses in English and Irish Gaelic, seasoned with word-play and wit. Ó Lionaird, whom The Guardian calls “one of the most dramatic voices in contemporary music,” sings the text in the unique and highly ornamental Irish style known as sean nós. The production incorporates the gorgeous young voices of students of acclaimed Irish sean nós singer Treasa Ní Mhiollain, who also makes an appearance. Eighth Blackbird is “one of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune). Olagón is the new-music sextet’s ninth Cedille Records album. Four of their previous Cedille recordings won Grammy Awards in the Best Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Performance category.