Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger

2019 release. "The version of The Hunger that is presented on this recording is the concert version of the piece, which I made in 2017-18. The Hunger also exists in an extended version for stage (completed in 2016, revised 2019), incorporating video interviews with economists, historians and philosophers. In the concert version, I dispense with this strand to concentrate entirely on the intersecting narrative developing between Mrs. Nicholson and the old, dying Irish man. More is implied rather than stated in this version. The Hunger was commissioned by Alarm Will Sound, and has received financial assistance from New Music USA, The MAP Fund, and the Arts Council of Ireland. The Hunger also incorporates material from a stand-alone piece, If he died what then, based on a section of Asenath Nicholson's text, that I originally wrote for Dawn Upshaw and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra). The Hunger is dedicated to Courtney Orlando." -Donnacha Dennehy.