National String Quartet Cork Concert March 9th

 

Dear Subscribers PIATTI QUARTET ON TOUR MARCH 6-10 Waterford - Sligo - Wexford - Cork - Dublin The outstanding Piatti Quartet return for their latest tour for the National String Quartet Foundation with a wide-ranging and entertaining programme. Mendelssohn’s beautiful E flat quartet was his first published quartet and from the first bars draws the listener into a world of dramatic story-telling. Moeran’s second quartet shares the same key but in contrast offers a beguiling world of English and Irish folk song and dance, mixed perhaps with the influence of Debussy and Vaughan Williams. Charlotte Harding’s ‘Iorsa’ evokes the scenic glen on the Isle of Arran, while Dvořák’s famed ‘American’ Quartet draws on both native American and Slavonic folk music, as well as, in its strong rhythmic vitality, on the composer’s fascination with railways. For the shorter programmes in Cork and Dublin, the Dvořák is replaced by Benjamin Britten’s arrangement for string quartet of Purcell’s memorable and atmospheric Chacony. WATERFORD - Wednesday 6th March at 7.30pm - Large Room, Waterford City Hall - presented by Waterford Music SLIGO- Thursday 7th March at 7.30pm - Methodist Church, Wine St. - presented by Con Brio WEXFORD - Friday 8th March at 8pm - Grantstown Priory, Wellingtonbridge, Co. Wexford.Y35 D4C4 - presented by Music for Wexford CORK - Saturday 9th March at 1pm - Triskel Christchurch DUBLIN - Sunday 10th March at 12pm - Hugh Lane Gallery (Booking opens Monday at 10) CONCERT PROGRAMME AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: Waterford / Sligo / Wexford Cork / Dublin Watch Charlotte Harding's introduction to her quartet 'Iorsa': on Instagram or on Facebook Watch our promotional video for the Moeran Quartet: on Instagram or on Facebook Please do share publicly or amongst your friends! ORA QUARTET AT CORK'S EVERYMAN THEATRE MARCH 10 John O'Brien's collaborative series Music Of... at the Everyman continues, the Ora Quartet are joined by West End musical sensation Molly Lynch and harpist Anne-Marie Papin Labazordiere for Music of... Love and Heartache Click here for details VANBRUGH & FRIENDS MARCH 22-24, APRIL 18-21 Two short tours by the Vanbrugh & Friends are coming up, taking them to Cork, Youghal, Baltimore, Carrrick-on-Shannon, Drogheda, Bandon and Limerick Click here for details NSQF SUMMER GALA CONCERT 2024 Our annual gala concert will take place on Saturday June 8th at 7.30pm at UCC's Aula Maxima. 25 musicians playing music by Vivaldi, Schubert, Shostakovich, Brahms, Dvorak, Mendelssohn and more. The webpage is still being prepared but just for our subscribers here is a preview: https://nsqf.ie/uccjune8. Tickets will go on sale on April 1st. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks and appreciation to our funders, sponsors and co-presenters, the Arts Council, RTÉ Lyric FM, the National Concert Hall, University College, Cork, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Dublin International Chamber Music Festival, the Contemporary Music Centre, many private donors, and the thirty or so venues and promoters we work with around the country with best wishes Chris   Find Out More