West Wicklow Festival: Gwendolyn Masin / Sara Ferrández / Brian O’Kane / Fiachra Garvey

A star-studded opening concert of the festival's Winter Weekend on Friday 14th November sees Irish / Dutch violinist Gwendolyn Masin, Spanish violist Sara Ferrández and Irish cellist Brian O Kane join Artistic Director and native Wicklow pianist Fiachra Garvey for a bravura programme of piano quartet masterworks!

Mozart’s turbulent G minor Piano Quartet, famously considered “too difficult” by the work’s commissioner Hoffmeister, is paired in a first half with Mahler’s haunting Piano Quartet in A minor, a one movement work which the composer abandoned after the first movement and his sole surviving work of instrumental chamber music.

Undercurrent by Irish composer Rhona Clarke depicts both the frenetic energy and calmness of the sea, before Brahms’ G minor Piano Quartet, one of the composer’s most adored works of chamber music, a tour de force taking audiences on an emotional roller-coaster and featuring the ever-popular “Gypsy Rondo” firework finale to finish!

Programme

W.A.Mozart Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, K.478
G.Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor
[Interval]
Rhona Clarke - Undercurrent
J.Brahms Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25

Tickets

Tickets €35 / €17.5 student concession (+ booking fee). Booking at West Wicklow Festival.