NCH Chamber Music Series 2018

Navarra Quartet

Fidelio Trio

Irish Baroque Orchestra

Malcolm Proud

Sharon Carty

National Concert Hall

CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAMME 2018/2019

Kevin Barry Recital Room | Autumn 2018 Concert Series Tickets from €17.50

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NCH CHAMBER MUSIC PROGRAMME 2018 AT A GLANCE

Series 1: Sunday String Quartets Series

Series 3: Female Composer Series

Sunday 23 September, 3pm Ficino Ensemble

Thursday 1 November, 7.30 pm Fidelio Trio

Sunday 7 October, 3pm Navarra Quartet

Sunday 14 October, 3pm RTÉ Contempo Quartet

Sunday 21 October, 3pm Carducci Quartet

Sunday 11 November, 3pm RTÉ Contempo Quartet

Sunday 18 November, 3pm Shandon Quartet

Sunday 2 December, 3pm Esposito Quartet

Thursday 15 November, 7.30 pm Réamonn Keary piano | Annette Cleary cello

Sunday 9 December, 3pm Lir Quartet Series presented in association with the National String Quartet Foundation

Thursday 24 January, 7.30pm Sharon Carty mezzo soprano Fionnuala Hunt violin | Úna Hunt piano

Thursday 7 February, 7.30pm

Concorde | Jane O’Leary director

Thursday 7 March, 7.30pm Irish Baroque Orchestra

Thursday 4 April, 7.30pm Miriam Roycroft cello | Lance Coburn piano Series presented in partnership with ‘Sounding the Feminists’ and supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Tickets: €17.50. Package Price €90 for all 6 concerts

Tickets: €17.50. Package Price €120 for all 8 concerts

Series 4: Couperin 350

Series 2: Irish Baroque Orchestra | The Evolution of the Trio Sonata

Wednesday 7 November, 7.30pm Dances and Character Pieces Camerata Kilkenny

Tuesday 25 September, 7:30pm The Birth of the Trio Sonata - Venice, a fountain of creativity Thursday 27 September, 7:30pm Corelli in Rome Saturday 29 September, 7:30pm The Trio Sonata is vanquished by the upstart String Quartet!

Wednesday 14 November, 7.30pm ‘The noble bass viol’ Nicholas Milne bass viol |Robert Smith bass viol and Malcom Proud harpsichord Wednesday 21 November, 7.30pm ‘Lamentations’ Aisling Kenny soprano |Sharon Carty mezzo soprano | Nicholas Milne bass viol Malcolm Proud harpsichord & organ

Series presented in association with the Irish Baroque Orchestra Tickets: €20. Package Price €55 for all 3 concerts.

Tickets: €17.50. Package Price €50 for all 3 concerts

Navarra Quartet

Series 1:

Sunday String Quartets A series of Sunday afternoon concerts featuring Irish and international quartets performing music ranging from the classical period to contemporary composers.

Sunday 23 September, 3pm

Ficino Ensemble Elaine Clark violin Lynda O’Connor violin Nathan Sherman viola Ailbhe McDonagh cello Szymanowski String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op. 37 Janáček String Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Schubert String Quartet No.14 in D minor D. 810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Sunday 7 October, 3pm

Navarra Quartet Haydn Pēteris Vasks Schubert

String Quartet Op. 20, No. 2 String Quartet No. 4 String Quartet No.15 in G major, D. 887

Carducci Quartet

Sunday 14 October, 3 pm

RTÉ Contempo Quartet Bogdan Sofei violin Ingrid Nicola violin Andreea Banciu viola Adrian Mantu cello Haydn String Quartet Op. 76, No 1 in G major Jennifer Walshe ‘Minard/Nithsdale’ (for quartet and electronics) Brahms String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 Sunday 21 October, 3 pm

Carducci Quartet Matthew Denton violin Michelle Fleming violin Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola Emma Denton cello Beethoven String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 Donnacha Dennehy ‘Pushpulling’ Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mishima’ Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 Sunday 11 November, 3 pm

RTÉ Contempo Quartet

Bogdan Sofei violin Ingrid Nicola violin Andreea Banciu viola Adrian Mantu cello

Haydn String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Linda Buckley ‘Haza’ (quartet and electronics) Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67

Esposito Quartet

Sunday 18 November, 3pm

Shandon Quartet

Siún Milne violin Brendan Garde violin David Kenny viola Aoife Burke cello Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 ‘Emperor’ Raymond Deane ‘Embers’ Schumann String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3 Sunday 2 December, 3pm

Esposito Quartet Mia Cooper violin Anna Cashell violin Joachim Roewer viola William Butt cello Boccherini Shostakovich Sebastian Adams Grieg

String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 26 Two Pieces for String Quartet: Elegy & Polka String Quartet No. 2 String Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op. 27

Sunday 9 December, 3pm

Lir Quartet Mairéad Hickey violin Siobhán Doyle violin Ed Creedon viola Christopher Ellis cello Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 Seán Doherty String Quartet No. 3 ‘The Devil’s Dream’ Beethoven String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 Presented by NCH in association with the National String Quartet Foundation Tickets: €17.50. Package price €120 for all 8 concerts

Series 2:

Irish Baroque Orchestra | The Evolution of the Trio Sonata Tuesday 25 September

Thursday 27 September

Saturday 29 September

Irish Baroque Orchestra Monica Huggett director/violin Claire Duff violin Sarah McMahon cello Malcolm Proud harpsichord Alex McCartney lute

Irish Baroque Orchestra Monica Huggett director/violin Claire Duff violin Sarah McMahon cello Malcolm Proud harpsichord Alex McCartney lute

Irish Baroque Orchestra Monica Huggett director/violin Claire Duff violin Emilia Benjamin viola Sarah McMahon cello Malcolm Proud harpsichord

The Birth of the Trio Corelli in Rome Sonata - Venice, Corelli Trio Sonatas Op. a fountain of 1, 2 & 4 creativity Corelli Violin Sonata in G

The Trio Sonata is vanquished by the upstart String Quartet!

Buonamente Ballo del Gran Duca Cima Sonata for violin, cello and harpsichord in A major Fontana Sonata No. 7 Marini Passacaglia Castello Violin Sonata No. 2 Marini Sonata per due violini in quattro corda Gabrieli Canzona for solo cello Fontana Sonata No. 11 Marin Pass e mezzo concertato

Sammartini Trio Sonata No. 12 in B flat major, Op. 3 No.12 Galuppi Concerto a Quatro Giordani String Quartet in A

minor, Op.5 No.5 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1, No. 12, "La follia"

Series presented in association with the Irish Baroque Orchestra Tickets: â‚Ź20. Package Price â‚Ź55 for all 3 concerts

Fidelio Trio

Series 3:

Female Composer Series The first series of a multi-annual project focusing on female composers over the centuries. Presented in partnership with Sounding the Feminists.

Thursday 1 November, 7:30pm

Fidelio Trio Darragh Morgan violin Dierdre Cooper cello Mary Dullea piano Clara Schumann Joan Trimble Lili Boulanger Rebecca Clarke

Piano Trio in G minor Op. 17 (1846) Phantasy Trio (1940) Nocturne for violin and piano (1911) Piano Trio (1921)

Thursday 15 November, 7:30 pm

RĂŠamonn Keary piano Annette Cleary cello Fanny Robinson C.V. Stanford Nadia Boulanger Leokadiya Kashperova

Selection of piano pieces (1850s-1870s) Cello Sonata No. 2 (1889) Trois pieces for cello and piano (1914) Cello Sonata No. 1 in G major (c.1905)

Sharon Carty

Thursday 24 January, 7:30pm

Sharon Carty mezzo soprano Fionnuala Hunt violin Úna Hunt piano Songs and piano music by Fauré and Debussy coupled with the prominent female composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) and Franco-Irish composers: Augusta Holmès (1847-1903), Adela Maddison (1862-1929) and Hope Temple (1859-1938).

The music of Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) is celebrated with her Deux Morceaux (Nocturne and Cortége) for violin and piano coupled with Debussy’s violin sonata, the composer’s last completed work before his death in 1918.

Thursday 7 February, 7:30pm

Concorde|Jane O’Leary director

‘Trailblazers’ Thea Musgrave Sofia Gubaidulina Marta Ptaszyńska Jane O’Leary Nicola LeFanu Kaija Saariaho Unsuk Chin Joan Tower

Orfeo I (1975) De Profundis (1978) Moon Flowers between 2 waves of the sea (2016) Iso Birthday (2002) Cendres (1998) Alice in Wonderland - Advice from a caterpillar (2007) Amazon I (1977)

Lance Coburn

Thursday 7 March, 7:30pm

Irish Baroque Orchestra ‘Donne Barocche’ Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre Sonatas for violin & continuo Barbara Strozzi Serenata ‘HorforApollo’ & Arietta ‘Miei pensieri’ Antonia Bembo Cantata ‘Lamento della Vergine’ Rosa Giacinta Badalla Mottetto ‘Non plangete’ Isabella Leonarda Sonata duodecima for violin solo and continuo (from Sonate a 1, 2, 3, 4, istrometi Op. decima sesta) Presented in association with Finding a Voice

Thursday 4 April, 7:30pm

Miriam Roycroft cello Lance Coburn piano Louise Farrenc Vítězslava Kaprálová Ethel Smyth Luise Adolpha LeBeau Henriëtte Bosmans

Cello Sonata in B flat Major Op. 46 (1859) April Preludes, Op.13 (1937) Cello Sonata in A Minor Op. 5 (1887) Cello sonata in D Major Op. 17 (1882) Sonata (1919)

Series presented in partnership with ‘Sounding the Feminists’ and supported by The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Tickets: €17.50 or €90 for all 6 concerts

Series 4:

Couperin 350 To celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth on the 10th November 1668 of François Couperin, the great French composer of the baroque, Malcolm Proud curates a series of three Wednesday evening concerts.

Wednesday 7 November, 7:30pm

‘Dances and character pieces’

Camerata Kilkenny Wilbert Hazelzet & Miriam Kaczor baroque flute Maya Homburger & Claire Duff baroque violin Sarah Groser bass viol Malcolm Proud harpsichord Couperin Ordre No. 8 in B minor (Second book of harpsichord pieces, 1716/17) Telemann Quartet No. 6 in E minor (New Quartets, 1738) Marais Sonnerie de Ste. Geneviève du Mont de Paris (1723) Couperin Troisième Ordre ‘L’Impériale’ (Les Nations, 1726) Wednesday 14 November, 7:30pm

‘The noble bass viol’ Nicholas Milne bass viol Robert Smith bass viol Malcolm Proud harpsichord Couperin Suite for bass viol and continuo in E minor (1728) Marais Duets for two bass viols Couperin Ordre no. 26 in F sharp minor (Fourth book of harpsichord pieces, 1730) Couperin Suite for bass viol and continuo in A major (1728)

Aisling Kenny

Malcolm Proud

Wednesday 21 November, 7:30pm

‘Lamentations’ Aisling Kenny soprano Sharon Carty mezzo soprano Nicholas Milne bass viol Malcolm Proud harpsichord & organ Couperin Couperin Purcell Marais Couperin

Trois Leçons de Ténèbres Ordre no. 3 in C minor (First book of harpsichord pieces, 1713) O dive custos (Elegy for Queen Mary) Tombeau pour Sieur de Sainte Colombe Motet pour le jour de Pâques

Tickets: €17.50 or all 3 concerts for €50

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