Termon by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Uilleann piper Mark Redmond and the NSO conducted by David Brophy

Описание: From the concert 'Lumen: A Celebration of the Light', performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, by piper Mark Redmond with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Brophy, September 2022.
Commissioned by the American Ireland Fund for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (1950 - 2018) composed this work for solo pipes and string orchestra in 2011. Entitled ‘Termon’, a word which ‘derived from the Gaelic word “tearmann” meaning place of sanctuary’. Ó Súilleabháin described the work as one which: ‘invokes the sacred space of boundaries and thresholds. It seeks to facilitate a listening at the borders of difference, and to reach towards a shared sanctuary of sound.’ His depiction, particularly the use of ‘sacred’ and ‘space’ as well as the fact that it was commemorating a catastrophe, reflects the slow tempo of this work.
The piece has been performed multiple times by piper Pádraic Keane and the Irish Chamber Orchestra.
According to Keane, Ó Súilleabháin initially experimented by using a whistle, to imitate the chanter, and a shruti box to duplicate the drones and regulators. The score features the inclusion of chordal accompaniment on the regulators.