NCH Chamber Music Series: "Melodic Masterworks" Fiachra Garvey and Mairéad Hickey featuring a work by Deirdre McKay
Kevin Barry Recital Room, National Concert Hall
The National Concert Hall presents a new series of chamber music concerts for 2023 curated by pianist Fiachra Garvey. The Natural World provides the inspiration for this unique series which comprises six Sunday afternoon recitals from February to April next year featuring familiar chamber classics and Irish premieres.
Brahms’s Sonata No. 2, nicknamed “Thun” after a holiday he spent at Lake Thun in Switzerland, has been described as being “so full of melodies that one has to be careful not to step on any”, the perfect way to begin a recital dedicated to the power and appeal of beautiful melodies. Strauss was besotted with a soprano when he was writing his violin sonata and these amorous feelings can be heard throughout the work. The sonata places huge demands both lyrically and technically on both the violinist and pianist.
Deirdre McKay’s ethereal work, sandwiched between these two masterworks, offers the perfect calm before the Strauss storm.
Programme
Johannes Brahms - Sonata No. 2 in A major for violin and piano, Op. 100
Deirdre McKay - "a quarter million miles from the moon"
Richard Strauss - Sonata in Eb major for violin and piano, Op. 18
Tickets
Tickets available via the National Concert Hall website.