Near FM is pleased to present The Hugh Lane Concert series – Episode 40. In this programme Ficino Ensemble with special guest piper Mark Redmond present Jubal’s Air by Kevin Volans in an exciting programme which includes Felix Mendelssohn’s jubilant String Octet. The concert is interspresred with an engaging interview with Elaine Clark (violin), Mark Redmond (pipes) and Nathan Sherman (Viola).

Kevin Volans – Jubal’s Air with Mark Redmond, Uilleann pipes

Felix Mendelssohn –  The String Octet in E♭ major, Op. 20, MWV R 20

 Jubal is probably best known in the words of ‘Oh, had I Jubal’s lyre!’ from Handel’s oratorio Joshua. Depending on the translation of Genesis, Jubal is credited as being the inventor of music, as ‘the father of all such as handle the harp and organ’ in the King James Version, and in the New International Version of the Bible, Jubal is given as the father of stringed instruments and pipes. Ficino Ensemble with special guest piper Mark Redmond present Jubal’s Air by Kevin Volans in an exciting programme which includes Felix Mendelssohn’s jubilant String Octet.

Credits – Concert recorded by Darby Carrol. Radio series produced and mixed by Paul Loughran. Interview and presentation by Cliodhna Ryan. Production team of Paul Loughran and Jaye Palmer. Made with the support of Coimisiún Na Mean with the Television License fee. Thanks to Mary Barnecutt and the Sunday at Noon concert series. Thanks to all in the Abbey Presbyterian Church, Parnell Square, and all in The Hugh Lane gallery. Recorded in the Abbey Presbyterian Church, May 10th 2026 and first broadcast on May 26th 2026.

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