Louth Contemporary Music Society

World première recordings of works by John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov and Alexander Knaifel sit alongside pieces by Henryk Górecki and John Cage on the first recording from a new Irish label operated by noted concert promoters Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS). All of these very popular contemporary composers have in various ways been deeply influenced by profound spiritual, religious or cultural encounters, and the disc celebrates them in a moving, magical programme. A Place Between intersperses - to wonderful effect - beautiful works for string quartet (Silvestrov's meditative Ikon, Tavener's deeply moving Ikon of Joy/Sorrow, Pärt's reflective Da Pacem Domine) with two solo piano works (Pärt's uplifting Hymn to a Great City, and Cage’s melodic and expressive In a Landscape). Górecki's memorial for Michael Vyner, Good Night and Knaifel’s mystical O Heavenly King both feature the haunting voice of soprano Patricia Rozario. Silvestrov's 25.X.1893 lullaby is a melancholic and lyrical piece for violin and piano.

In Search Of The Miraculous is a 2013 compilation of post-modern and contemporary classical music. This was released by the Louth Contemporary Music Society.

The latest release from Louth Contemporary Music Society, Ireland’s most dynamic promoter of new music, features a recording of the world premiere of In C Irish, a new version of Terry Riley’s In C for an ensemble of traditional Irish musicians.

Wolfgang von Schweinitz’s piece Plainsound String Trio ‘KLANG auf Schön Berg La Monte Young,’ Op. 39 (1999-2013) comprises one 45-minute track and is here performed by the Goeyvaerts String Trio. The work provides moments of great calm, of sudden beauty, of agitation, of distress, of startlement, all in a place like nowhere else.