Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Sun noon Adm free 01-2225550

In April 2008 soprano Sylvia O’Brien (above) presented an all-Seóirse Bodley programme at Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery, with the composer himself at the piano. The focus on that occasion was the composer’s settings of Mícheal O’Siadhail.

O'Brien and Bodley are back at the gallery this Sunday for The Hiding Places of Love,a new song-cycle written for O'Brien, again setting words by an Irish poet, this time Seamus Heaney.

Sunday's programme surveys more than four decades of Bodley's work, beginning with Ariel's Songs(1969), which was premièred by Marni Nixon (famous for having dubbed the singing voices of Deborah Kerr in The King and I,Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady) at the Dublin Festival of 20th Century Music in 1970.

All of the other works on the programme – Look to this day(1997), By the Margin of the Great Deep(1995), and Wandrers Nachtlied(2003) – were premiered by the composer's long-time collaborator, mezzo soprano Aylish Kerrigan.