Eoghan Desmond

Quoting a fragment of text from Chapter 14 of James Joyce's Ulysses, composer Eoghan Desmond portrays childbirth as a divine mystery. The greeting fanfare of a solo horn in tandem with the choir depic...

Be All Merry evokes the often chaotic cheer of Christmas. The title of the piece is a command as much as anything else, and as the piece builds towards the lines 'Be All Merry in this house/Exultet Ca...