NSQF Autumn 2021 - Ficino Quartet at the NCH featuring a work by Deirdre McKay

12 December 2021 13:00

Ficino Quartet - Elaine Clarke, violin Siun Milne, violin Nathan Sherman, viola Ailbhe McDonagh, cello

Ficino Ensemble was formed by Artistic Director Nathan Sherman in 2012 as a flexible group aiming to perform popular chamber music alongside lesser known works that deserve to be appreciated. The Quartet features four outstanding musicians who are building an impressive reputation and an exciting repertoire. Their fascinating programme opens with the joyful ease of Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, moves into Deirdre McKay’s contemplation of ‘the vast quietude of space’ and ends in the alternately riveting and beautiful Bartokian world of Ligeti’s first quartet.

Programme

Mozart - Quartet in C major K.465 ‘Dissonance'
Deirdre McKay - ‘mr shah stares to the heavens’
Ligeti - Quartet No.1 - ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’