THE VOYAGE music inspired by the sea with West Cork Choral Singers

Music by John Ireland, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Eric Whitacre, Charles Stanford and others

Time and date

Sunday 22 March 2026

7:30 pm

9:00 pm

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West Cork Music and West Cork Choral Singers present a mixed programme. Like flotsam and jetsam washed up on the shore. Full of treasures and curiosities, laments and longings, wanderings and wonderments.

Susan Nares - Director
Orlaith Horan - Soprano
Gheorghe Palcu - Bass
Tom Doyle - Piano

Admission: €20/€10 children

Tickets will go on sale 1 February

This concert will have an interval with a bar

 

All works performed by West Cork Choral Singers


Composer Work
Thomas Campion Never weather beaten sail
Traditional arr. Ben See Lowlands Away
Eric Whitacre The seal lullaby
John Ireland sea fever
Joseph Haydn The Mermaid’s Song
Edward Elgar - arranged for choir by Donald Fraser Sea Pictures numbers 1,2,3 and 4
Ralph Vaughan Williams ‘on the beach at night alone’ from the Sea Symphony
G. F. Handel ‘Da tempeste il legno infranto’ from Julius Caesar act 3
Charles Stanford- homeward bound from songs of the sea
Traditional ‘the fisherman’s night song’ (my love’s an arbutus)
Gilbert and Sullivan poor wandering one, from Pirates of Penzance
Traditional setting by Craig McLeish Crossing the Bar