ELATHA'S ASCENSION - Samuel Kane (2022)

World premiere performance of 'Elatha's Ascension' at the Ink Still Wet concert in the Harty Room, Belfast in January 2023. Commissioned with funding from the PRSf Talent Development Partnership.

In Irish Mythology, the Fomors or Fomorians were the demons of night, darkness, death,
barrenness, and evil. ‘Elatha’, one of their chiefs, is described in an old manuscript as of
magnificent presence – a beautiful prince of darkness.

‘A man of fairest form, with golden hair down to his shoulders. He wore a mantle of gold braid over a shirt interwoven with threads of gold. Five golden necklaces were round his neck, and a brooch of gold with a shining precious stone thereon was on his breast. He carried two silver spears with rivets of bronze, and his sword was golden-hilted and golden-studded.'

Aisling Agnew - alto flute
Ciaran McCabe - violin
David McCann - violoncello

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