This edition is the first in a series dedicated to Irish composers on the Marco Polo label. Victory (1921) draws on various literary and musical sources for his grand cantata. For example, he contrasts texts by William Blake and Walt Whitman with early Irish poems, texts from the Koran and Latin texts from the traditional requiem Mass. As for music, he draws on neoclassical, medieval, atonal chromatic
… and aleotoric techniques. The result is a powerful statement of our time, an impressive intellectual and musical highlight.more
