Love Blooms | Chamber Choir Ireland and Ellie Slorach

Ireland's national chamber choir welcomes Ellie Slorach for a Valentine's bouquet of music, expressing the rollercoaster of emotions that go along with romantic love:

The nervousness and elation that composer Derri Joseph Lewis felt when he first came out to his dad, in his piece 'Something Exciting'; intimate settings of Pablo Neruda's poetry by Shruthi Rajasekar and Song of Songs by Áine Mallon; the fleeting beauty of love and flowers in Gerald Finzi's 'Seven poems of Robert Bridges' and Nathan James Dearden's 'full of sweet days'; the turbulence of Alex Groves’ 'Stream and Pool' for choir and electronics; and Benjamin Britten's 'Five Flower Songs', composed for the 25th wedding anniversary of botanists Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst.