In Blue and Gold - Simon Mawhinney

Rapptli - Fergal Carroll

Knotenli - Rob Canning

Divided We Stand United - Geraldine Nolan Spada

Some kind of - David Fennessy

Under the heading of "Tomorrow's Composers Today", Concorde presented works by five young Irish composers who have either finished or are about to finish their studies. None of the works in the latest recital in the Sundays at Noon series had been heard in Dublin before, and each work had a brief presentation by its composer.

Simon Mawhinney had been inspired by an oriental scene, but not having learnt from Edward Said that Western orientalism was a form of cultural imperialism, he was a little too anxious to conceal the exotic elements in his piece for flute, oboe, violin, cello and vibraphone. It adumbrated a rather sombre mood and lacked the rhythmic vitality that was present in Fergal Caroll's Rappt for clarinet and percussion.

Rob Canning's Knoten (German for "knots") explored harmony at the expense of melody and rhythm, using the various colours of flute, clarinet, cello and vibraphone.

Geraldine Nolan Spada introduced herself as an extremist; her piece was based on a tight cluster of seven notes, which is a dissonance and should jar on the ear, but it was treated with such obsessive care that it ended by being consonant rather than extreme.

Indeed, all the composers seemed to have taken a step back from the brink of avant-gardism, and David Fennessy's setting for soprano, clarinet, viola and piano of a strange text by the American playwright, Sam Shepard, brought a strong sense of order to words that dismally (and deliberately) failed to articulate the feelings behind them.