Frank Corcoran

irish composer

works

Orchestral
Ensemble
Solo Instrumental
Vocal & Choral
Electro-Acoustic & Mixed Media


Orchestral

CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND LARGE ORCHESTRA (2014)
3.3.3.3. 4.3.3.1. Timp. 3 perc. Strings

VARIATIONS ON MYSELF (2012)
1.1.1.1.1. and strings.
Premiere 13.3.2013 New York North South Chamber Orchestra / Max Lfchitz
CMC Recording

VIOLIN CONCERTO (2011)
3.3.3.3. 4.3.3.0. Tmp. 2 perc. Strings. and Violin Solo
Premiere 2.11.2012 N.C.H. Dublin N.S.O. / Alan Smale Vln. / Christopher Warren-Greene
RTÉ Recording

FOUR ORCHESTRAL PRAYERS for Soprano and Orchestra (2010)
3.3.3.3. 4.3.3.1. Harp Timp. 3 perc. Strs. 16.14.10.12.6. and Soprano
Premiere 7.1.2011 N.C.H. Dublin N.S.O. / Chloe Hinton sop. / Colman Pearce
RTE Recording

QUASI UNA FUGA (2007)
Strings 5.5.4.3.1.
Premiere Shannon Festival, Limerick Cathedral 13.7.2007.
Irish Chamber Orchestra / Anthony Marwood
Lyric Fm Recording

QUASI UNA VISIONE
(2004) 2121 2221 3 perc hrp pf str.
Premiere: Living Arts Festival, February 2005.
Commissioned by RTÉ

QUASI UNA VISIONE (2004)
2121 2221 3 perc hrp pf str.
Comissioned by RTÉ.

QUASI UN LAMENTO ( 2003 )
10′. 0020 1001 ssax asax tsas, perc, acc, pf, str.
Premiere NSOI in ‘‘Horizons ’’Concert, March 8, 2005.

QUASI UN CONCERTINO (2003)
1111 1000 perf pf str. 15′.
Commissioned by Cantus from the Irish Arts Council (2002).
First perf. 9.8.2003, Island
of Vis, Dalmatia, Cantus Ensemble / Berislav Sipus.

QUASI UN CANTO
(2002)
3333 4331 timp 3 perc Pno hp str
MS15′
Premiere : Zagreb Philharmonic / Chikawara Iwamura,
World Music Days , April 2004.

Symphony No. 4 (1996)
P>3333 4331 timp 3 perc hrp str
MS20′
Premiere: 1998.
Recording: Frank Corcoran Symphonies.
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Colman Pearce.
Marco Polo 1999. 8.225107

Symphony No. 3 (1994)
3333 4331 timp 3 perc hrp str
MS17′
Premiere: 30 January 2001. National Concert Hall, Dublin.
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Richard Pittman.
Recording: Frank Corcoran Symphonies.
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Colman Pearce.
Marco Polo 1999. 8.225107

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Mikrokosmoi (1994)
3333 4331
timp 3 perc hrp str MS17′
Commissioned by the Irish Chamber Orchestra
with funds provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Premiere: 22 June 1995. Cork.
Irish Chamber Orchestra director Fionnuala Hunt.
Recording: Strings A-stray.
Irish Chamber Orchestra, director Fionnuala Hunt.
Black Box 1998. BBM1013

Symphony No. 2 (1981)
3332 4331 timp 3 perc str
MS23′
Recording: Frank Corcoran Symphonies.
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, conductor Colman Pearce.
Marco Polo 1999. 8.225107

Symphony No. 1 (1980)
Symphonies of Symphonies of Wind Instruments

2222 4321 timp perc hrp str
MS20′
Premiere: 10 November 1981. Vienna.
Österreichischer Rundfunk Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek
Recording: Frank Corcoran Symphonies
Österreichischer Rundfunk Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek

Marco Polo 1999. 8.225107

Concerto for String Orchestra (1982)
str [4.4.3.2.1]MS 16′
Commissioned by the Dublin Festival of Twentieth Century Music.
Premiere: 9 January 1984. National Concert Hall, Dublin.
New Irish Chamber Orchestra, conductor David Robertson.
Recording: Composers’ Art Label CD 2005.

Three Pieces for Orchestra (1974 rev.
1976)
Pictures from My Exhibition

2222 4331 timp perc str.
MS12′
Premiere: 1 July 1976, RTE Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Colman Pearce
International Composers’ Rostrum, Paris, 1981
Commissioned by RTÉ
Recording:
RTE REC. ( N.S.O. / Richard Pittmann ) 2000.

Chamber Symphony(1978)
12-1 2––– Timp 1 perc hp str
MS 18′
Premiere: 5.5.1978 RTESO, conductor Colman Pearce


Ensemble

RHAPSODIC BOWING (2012)
8 Celli
Premiere 2013 N.S.O. Celli/ Martin Johnson
RTÉ Recording

CLARINET QUINTET (2011)
String Quartet plus Clar. / Bassclar.
Premiere 25.11.2011 RIAM Dublin. Vanbrugh Quartet, Sidney Egan clar.s
Lyric Fm Recording

QUASI UNA SARABANDA (2009)
Cl./Hn./Bassoon/V/V/Vla/VCl. /D.B.
Premiere 12.6.2009 Basel Ensemble “Antipodes”
Swiss Radio Recording


QUASI UN PIZZICATO (2004)

Flutes, Soprano, Speaker, Harp, Piano, Percussion, Electronics. 10′.
commissioned by Wireworks Ensemble Münster
Premiere : Wireworks Ensemble with Frank Corcoran, Speaker,
Hamburg 29.11.2004.
Recording: Musikhochschule Hamburg 2004

SWEENEY’S SMITHEREENS (2000)

Sweeney Smithereens

Sweeney Smithereens

fl, picc, cl +bcl, perc, pf, vn, db MS10′
Commissioned by The Crash Ensemble
with funds provided bythe Arts Council/An Chomhairle
Ealaíon.
Premiere: 12 October 2000. Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany.The Crash Ensemble.

Recording:
CMC Sound Archive

TWO BACH FUGUES
(B.W.V. 876 and 878) (2002)
orchestrated for Chamber Orch.
fl,ob,cl,hn,perc,pno,v,vla,vcl,db. 3.50′ and 3.45′
Commissioned by The National Concert-Hall Dublin
with funds provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Premiere: 26.3.2002 National Concert Hall, Dublin
Nat. Symphony Orchestra of Ireland Chamber Orchestra, conductor: David
Brophy

WIND QUINTET No. 3 (1999)
Sweeney’s Wind-Cries
fl ob cl bn hn MS16′
Commissioned by Stuttgart Wind Quintet
with funds provided by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Premiere: 25 November 2000.
Sligo Contemporary Music Festival, Model Arts and Niland Centre, Sligo.
Daedalus Wind Quintet: William Dowdall (fl), Matthew Manning (ob), John Finucane
(cl), Michael Jones (bn), Fergus O’Carroll (hn).
Recording:
CMC Sound Archive


ICE – ETCHINGS No. 1 (1996)
fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 2 hn MS17′
Commissioned by Musica Aperta with funds provided by
Incontri Europei con la Musica, Italy.
Premiere: 1 February 1997. Bergamo, Italy.
I Fiati Aperti, conductor Giuseppe della Valle.


TRAUERFELDER (1995)
Goirt an Bhróin (Fields of Sorrow)
4 perc MS13′
Commissioned by Minister of Culture, City of Hamburg, Germany.
Premiere: 26 February 1995. Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Percussion Modern
Recording:
Neues aus der Milchstraße.
Modern Percussion
Neues aus der Milchstraße. NADM01


RHAPSODIC THINKING (1994)
4 vn MS10′
Commissioned by the Cappelletti Quartet
with funds provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Premiere: 20 September 1994. Brussels. Cappelletti Quartet.
Recording:
CMC Sounnd Archive


FOUR CONCERTINI OF ICE (1993)
fl ob cl hn vn vc db perc MS12′
Premiere: 1 February 1995. Tonhalle, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Düsssseldorfer Sinfoniker, conductor Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen
Recording:
CMC Sound Archive



MUSIC FOR THE BOOK OF KELLS (1990)
All that we saw was his shadow under his shield

5 perc pf MS13′
Commissioned by Book of Kells Committee
of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Premiere: 27 May 1990. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
New Music Ensemble, Frank Corcoran (pf), conductor Pavel Burda.
Recording:
Mad Sweeney. Percussion Modern, Frank Corcoran(pf), conductor Dieter Cichewiecz.
Black Box 1999. BBM1026

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SHADOWS OF GILGAMESH (1988)
from Gilgamesh
fl ob cl hn tpt trb perc pf vn va vc db MS125′
Commissioned by Carroll’s Summer Music with funds
provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Premiere: June 1988. St Stephen’s Church,
Mount Street Crescent, Dublin.
Ulysses Ensemble, conductor Colman Pearce
Recording:
CMC Sound Archive

STRING QUARTET No. 2 (1979)
2 vn va vc MS14′
Commissioned by Jubal String Quartet.
Premiere 1984, Jubal Quartet , Hamburg
Recording: NDR.
CMC Sound Archive

WIND QUINTET No.2 (1978)

fl ob cl bn hn
MS16′

Premiere: 10 October 1978. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
Les Amis de la Musique.
Recording:Mad Sweeney.
Stuttgart Wind Quintet, director Willy Freivogel.
Black Box 1999. BBM1026


PIANO TRIO (1978 commission)
10′. Hesketh Trio.
Out on LP
Self Help – Frank Corcoran OIO .


Solo Instrumental

SNAPSHOT (2012)
Cello Solo
Premiere 20.07.2012 N.C.H. Martin Johnson, Cello
CMC Recording

IN THE DEEP HEART´S CORE (2011)
Harp Solo
Premiere 21.09.2012 Dublin. Andrea Malir, Harp
CMC Recording

A DARK SONG (2011)
Bass Clarinet Solo
Premiere 11.5.2012 Leipzig Opera Volker Hemken, Bass Clarinet

NINE PRATOLEVA PEARLS (2008)
Piano Solo
Premiere 12.11.2008 N.C.H. Andreas Skouras, Piano
CMC Recording


QUASI UN BASSO
for Allan von Schenkel 2005.
ca. 4′

VARIATIONS ON
‘‘A MHÁIRÍN DE BHARRA’’

for Solo Viola (2004)

Commissioned by Lyric Fm 2004.
Recording: Constantin Zanidache 2005, Lyric Fm


SWEENEY’S TOTAL RONDO (2002)
pf Contemporary Music Centre Editions/CMC 1021
Commissioned by AXA Dublin International Piano Competition 2003
with funds provided by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon


THREE PIECES FOR GUITAR(1990)

gui MS8′
Commissioned by Peter Baime.
Premiere: 1990. Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Peter Baime (gui).
Recording:
Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume Two.
Benjamin Dwyer (gui).
Contemporary Music Centre 1997. CMC CD02


IRISCHE MIKROKOSMOI (1993-2001)
pf MS 21′
Premiere: Finghin Collins, 11.11.2002, Roscommon


ICE-ETCHINGS No.2 vcl(1996)

commissioned by the Rome Festival with funds
provided by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon)
8′
premiere Madeleine Shapiro, vcl., Rome Festival,
Istituto Polacco di Cultura, Rome, 2.6.1996.
Recording: William Butt BBC 1996


HERNIA d.b.(1980)
9′
Premiere 2.2.1981
Wolfgang Güttler, db solo.
Recording: Sender Freies Berlin


GESTURES OF SOUND AND SILENCE
for pno and vcl (1976) 12′
Premiere : Telefís Éireann 1978
Aisling Drury-Byrne, vcl. and Frank Corcoran, pno.
Recording: RTÉ
LP. Frank Corcoran Self Help SH 010


SOLO CELLO SUITE vcl (1972)
Premiere : 7.6.1972
Aisling Drury-Byrne, solo cello
Dublin Festival
Recording: RTÉ


Vocal and Choral

EIGHT HAIKUS [to texts by Frank Corcoran] (2012)
Choir SS AA TT BB
Premiere 2013 NDR Radio Choir Hamburg

TWO UNHOLY HAIKUS (2011)
Choir SATB
Premiere 4.5.2012. St. Finbarre’s Cathedral, Cork . National Chamber Choir/ Paul Hillier
( Winner of Cork International Choral Festival´s Seán ´O Riada Composition Competition 2012 )
CMC Recording

SONGS OF TERROR AND LOVE (2011)
“Pierrot” Ensemble line-up plus Baritone
Premiere 14.3.2011 NYC Church of Christ And St. Stephen. North South Ensemble/ MaxLifchitz / David Salsbery Fry, bass baritone
CMC Recording

CAOINE (2011)
Choir SATB
Premiere 26.02.2012 St Ann´s Church Dublin, National Chamber Choir / Paul Hillier
CMC Recording


Beyond Beckett (2006)
for Soprano, Violin, Cello and Bassclarinet
Commissioned by Concorde: Premiere 23.4.2006
at the Beckett Centenary Celebrations, National Gallery, Dublin


SÚIL / SAOL (2005)
for Cantairí Oga Atha Cliath
4′.

9 ASPECTS OF A N IRISH POEM (2004)
for Choir and Violin
premiére with the National Chamber Choir,
Conductor : Celso Antunes
Violin: Catherine Leonard
at the National Gallery, Dublin, 12.8.2004


QUASI UNA MELODIA (2000)
Sop, Alto Sax,Vib.-Marimba, V-Vla,Pno
commissioned with funds made available by
the Arts Council/Anchomhairle Ealaíon
9′
Premiere: Ensemble Intégrales, 15.10.2001 Hamburg


BUILE SUIBHNE (1996)
Mad Sweeney

fl+picc+afl, ob, cl+bcl, hn perc vn va vc db speaker

Text: Séamus Heaney.

MS16′

Commissioned by Slí Nua with funds provided by
The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Premiere: 22 January 1998. Hamburg, Germany.
NDR Ensemble, Frank Corcoran (speaker), conductor Dieter Cichewiecz

Recording: Mad Sweeney.
Das Neue Werk NDR Ensemble,conductor Dieter Cichewiecz, Frank Corcoran (speaker).

Black Box 1999. BBM1026

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GILGAMESH (1990)
An Opera in Two Acts

7 soli, satb, 3323 4331 timp perc hrp pf str

MS25′
Recording:
CMC Sound Archive

Aus Rilkes STUNDENBUCH (1990)
Male Choir and Org.
commissioned by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaéon)
6′
Premiere: Dublin 1991
Goethe Institute Choir, conductor: Cáit Lanigan-Cooper.


CÚIG AMHRÁIN
de Chuid Gabriel Rosenstock (1980)
Five Songs by Gabriel Rosenstock

S-solo, vn, vc, pf
Text: Gabriel Rosenstock
MS11′

Premiere: 13 May 1980. Sender Freies Berlin.
Concorde: Anne Woodworth (Mez-solo), Alan Smale (vn),
Brigid Mooney-McCarthy (vc),
Jane O’Leary (pf).
Recording:
Mad Sweeney’s Shadow
Col-Legno CD WWE 1CD 20214
Sabine Sommerfeld, sop., and Hamburg Piano Trio
NDR recording


DÁN AIMHIRGÍN (1973)
Aimhirgín′s Song

satb
Text: Anon. Oifig an tSoláthair/Government Publications Office
[An Gúm]

M3286′

Commissioned by Cork International Choral and Folk Dance Festival, 1973,
with funds provided by the Goethe Institute, Dublin.

Premiere: 5 May 1973. Cork International Choral and Folk Dance Festival.
Choir of the Goethe Institute, conductor Cáit Lanigan-Cooper.
Recording:
CMC Sound Archive


NINE MEDIEVAL IRISH EPIGRAMS (1973)

satb
Text: Anon
MS11′

Premiere: First Broadcast 18 January 1973. RTÉ.
RTÉ Singers, conductor Hans Waldemar Rosen
1979 International Composers’ Rostrum, Paris
Recording: RTÉ,
CMC Sound Archive


HERR JESU CHRIST (1976)
for S.A.T.B. Choir
commissioned by Heinrich Schütz Gesellschaft
Text: Paul Eber
13′
Premiere 21.11.1978
RTÉ Singers, conductor: Eric Sweeney
Recording: RTÉ


Electro-Acoustic & Mixed Media


TRADURRE – TRADIRE (2005)
Recording : Composers’ Art Label


QUASI UNA MISSA (1999)

tape 20′

Commissioned by WDR, Cologne.

Premiere: 2 August 1999. WDR, Cologne.
Recording:CMC Sound Archive


SWEENEY’S VISION (1997)

tape 25′
Commissioned by WDR Cologne.

Premiere: 10 June 1997. WDR, Cologne, Germany.
Recording:Mad Sweeney. Black Box 1999. BBM1026

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JOYCESPEAK – MUSIK (1995)
tape 10′
Premiere: 26 February 1995. Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
WDR Studio Acoustic Art Prize 1995.
Recording:WDR,
CMC Sound Archive


FAREWELL SYMPHONIES (1982)
2221 2330 timp perc str tape speaker

Text: Frank Corcoran
MS20′
Commissioned by RTÉ for the Priz Italia 1982.
Recording:
CMC Sound Archive

BALTHAZAR’S DREAM(1980)

tape 13′
Premiere: 1980. Seoul Festival, Korea.
Recording:
CMC Sound Archive



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