Friday 24th November 2023
Location: The Parade Tower, Kilkenny
TIME & LOCATION
Nov 24, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Kilkenny, R95 YRK1, Ireland

PROGRAMME & PERFORMERS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quartet No. 15 in D minor K421

Elizabeth Maconchy

String Quartet No. 3

Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky

String Quartet No. 3 in Eb minor Op. 30

Elizabeth Maconchy was born in England in 1907 to Irish parents and was a prolific and successful composer through much of the twentieth century. The third of her thirteen quartets is among the most popular and was written with Europe on the cusp of yet another war; it is dramatic, yearning and very much according to her feeling that ‘the best music is an impassioned argument’. Brian O’Kane’s celebrated Navarra Quartet opens with Mozart’s D minor quartet and ends with Tchaikovsky’s towering third quartet, perhaps most memorable for its slow movement which alternates between a doom-laden funeral march and the radiant beauty of remembrance. Taking its name from a bottle of red from the wine region famously known for its multi-coloured landscapes, the Quartet’s diverse cultural backgrounds are united in serving the music with relentless passion and commitment.
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