The Great Mystery brings Chamber Choir Ireland back to the Cork International Choral Festival with a programme of Psalms, Madrigals and an affirmation of life.

Following a glorious start to the season with A Letter of Rights, Chamber Choir Ireland return to the Cork International Choral Festival as Choir-in-Residence, where it will first lead an extended seminar session as part of the festival’s Choral Symposium, followed that evening by the annual Chamber Choir Ireland Gala Concert.

The programme will feature works from German composer Bernd Franke, the late Peter Maxwell Davies, John Lonergan’s winning entry of the Seán Ó Riada Composition Competition City Shower as well as the central work to this programme; the world premiere performance of Ne Reminicaris by David Fennessy, the second in a triptych of pieces newly commisioned by CCI/CICF. Fennessy takes some influence from works by Orlandus Lassus as edited by British musicologist Clive Wearing – works which book-end this complete programme.

The Great Mystery will also be performed in St Thomas’ Church, Belfast on the 23rd May and St Ann’s Church, Dublin on the 24th May.

Psalmus Primus Poententialis: Psalm 6               Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)

City Shower                                                               John Lonergan

Luther Madrigals                                                       Bernd Franke (b. 1959)

Ne reminicaris                                                           David Fennessy (b.1976)

O Magnum Mysterium                                              Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016)

Psalmus Septimus Poententialis : Psalm 142      Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594)