The Four Seasons Chamber Music Series: Uisce agus Oighear

Featuring:
Fiona Kelly, flute
Cian Ó Dúill, viola
Jean Kelly, harp

Four Seasons Chamber Music Series: inviting audiences on a journey through the seasons, with music exploring themes of light and shadow, water and ice, and the passing of time.

Curated by cellist Aoife Burke, this programme of works exploring water and its various forms encompasses two, short, evocative, contemporary pieces for solo flute – one by Canadian flautist Robert Aitken and one by Cork native composer Solfa Carlile. Alongside these features an arrangement of a song, Flow my Tears, by English Renaissance composer John Dowland, as well as a suite of seven vignettes – Algues – exploring algae and the water in which it is carried. The programme also includes two substantial works conceived in the early twentieth century especially for this formation – one by Arnold Bax, composed following the 1916 Easter Rising, and one by Debussy, written the previous year, after an extended period of limited output in the aftermath of the outbreak of the First World War. The concert will conclude with a traditional Irish jig written by contemporary composer Matthew Berrill, a work which draws its inspiration from the OPW’s archival hydrometric charts of the rivers and lakes of Ireland.

Programme

Robert Aitken - Icicle for Solo Flute
Bernard Andrès - Algues for Flute and Harp
John Dowland - Flow my Tears (arranged for Viola and Harp)
Solfa Carlile - Dystopia for Solo Flute
Arnold Bax - Trio Elégiaque for Flute, Viola and Harp
Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp, L. 137
Matthew Berrill - The Flood Gig for Flute and Harp

Tickets

€17.50. Booking at NCH.