Spin: New Music for Violin and Orchestra from Northern Ireland | Darragh Morgan (violin), Ulster Orchestra, David Brophy (conductor) | Resonus Classics | RES10382

Spin: New Music for Violin and Orchestra from Northern Ireland

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Total playing time [70:50]

Darragh Morgan (violin)
Ulster Orchestra
David Brophy (conductor)

Irish violinist Darragh Morgan, a tireless advocate for new music, here presents four concertos written for him over the past two decades by Frank Lyons, Brian Irvine, Bill Campbell and Ryan Molloy.

Recorded with the Ulster Orchestra under David Brophy, this compelling programme reflects the richness of Northern Ireland’s contemporary voice. Electronic transformation, folk-inflected rhythms and lyrical introspection coexist with passages of dazzling virtuosity, each work revealing a distinctive sound world.

Together they form a vivid, cohesive portrait in which solo brilliance and symphonic imagination are fused with striking assurance and colour.

Album Booklet (PDF)

About the Artists: Darragh Morgan, Ulster Orchestra, David Brophy

Tracklist

Bill Campbell (b.1961)
1. Swim

Brian Irvine (b.1965)
À mon seul désir
2. With a big life embracing energy
3. Distant and still

Ryan Molloy (b.1983)
Violin Concerto
4. Goltraí
5. Suantraí
6. Geantraí

Frank Lyons (b.1964)
7. Spin 3

'Electronic transformation, folk-inflected rhythms and lyrical introspection coexist with passages of dazzling virtuosity, each work revealing a distinctive sound world. Together they form a vivid, cohesive portrait in which solo brilliance and symphonic imagination are fused with striking assurance and colour.'

- British Music Society

'Darragh Morgan, a life time proponent of new music […] The huge dexterity of Darragh Morgan, he can play in so many different ways, so many different worlds, each one is really captivating in its own way.'
BBC Radio 3's Record Review

'Electronic transformation, folk-inflected rhythms and lyrical introspection coexist with passages of dazzling virtuosity, each work revealing a distinctive sound world. Together they form a vivid, cohesive portrait in which solo brilliance and symphonic imagination are fused with striking assurance and colour.'
British Music Society

'[...] a thrilling ride across styles and sometimes audacious musical imaginations, captured in rich, detailed recorded sound.'
The Strad

‘Fiercely entrancing…a gripping concerto, Darragh Morgan and the orchestra circling each other in this fiery dance…moments of clarity that just stop me in my tracks…such ravishing writing, gorgeous playing to from violinist Darragh Morgan’
BBC Radio 3 New Music Show

'[Morgan's] never afraid to shine a light on composers who sometimes fall under the radar'
Gramophone

'Darragh Morgan and the Ulster Orchestra excel throughout'
Presto Classical

'A violinist with fire in his bow [...] the musical firebrand [...] ends with angelic beauty on Morgan’s highest, finest strings.'
seismograf.org

'[...] a widescreen collection of orchestral pieces, some of which will absolutely reach out of the speakers and shove you backward in your chair'
Burning Ambulance ('Five Albums you need to hear')

© 2026 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2026 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. RES10382
Producer & editor: Adam Binks
Engineer: Richard Campbell
EAN: 5060262794234
Release date: 22 May 2026