Friday 08th December 2023
Location: The Parade Tower, Kilkenny
TIME & LOCATION
Dec 08, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Kilkenny, R95 YRK1, Ireland
PROGRAMME & PERFORMERS
Osvaldo Gojijov
Tenebrae
Ailbhe McDonagh
String Quartet No. 2 ‘’The Lore Quartet’
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet in F# minor, Op. 108 No. 7
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Cellist-composer Ailbhe McDonagh presents her newly commissioned second string quartet on this tour by the Ficino Quartet. Osvaldo Golijov’s hauntingly beautiful Tenebrae reflects both the brutality of human conflict and the parallel perspective of the earth’s serene progress through space. Shostakovich’s short and enigmatic seventh quartet was dedicated to his first wife who had died six years earlier and the concert ends with Brahms’ glorious masterpiece, his A minor quartet Op. 51 No. 2
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