Cuore stepped into spring with a vibrant and uplifting evening of choral music, for our first concert in the beautiful acoustic of St Mary’s Haddington Road, at 7:30pm on Saturday 27th of April.
Our audience heard us preview our repertoire for the prestigious Ave Verum International Choral Competition in Austria, featuring the Irish premieres of Non nobis, Domine by Erika Budai and In Taberna by Michał Ziółkowski.
Performances from Mirabilia
We really enjoyed learning the virtuosic In Taberna by Polish composer Michał Ziółkowski, and performing the Irish and Austrian premieres in 2024. This Goliardic ode to drinking was popularised by Carl Orff as one of the movements in his Carmina Burana.
Here is the encore performance from Cuore’s Mirabilia concert on 27th April 2024:
In taberna quando sumus (‘when we are in the tavern’) begins as a militaristic account of the immoral acts of the inebriated crowd, and the march soon descends into anarchy with a list of merrymakers joining in the mischief: included are mistress, master, priest, pauper, men, women, white, black, the Pope, old ladies, mothers, children, merchants, Christians, the smart, and the lazy. The composer writes: “In my imagination, the piece is a fusion of primal energy, irony, and dark grotesque, envisioning an ecstatic celebration akin to a lively party at Bacchus’ house.”. He fuses percussive lyrics, energetic rhythms and sometimes almost drunken modulations to capture this raucous mood.
We are grateful to the composer for access to the score before publication, and to St. Mary’s Church, Haddington Road, Dublin for the wonderful venue.