The Four Seasons Chamber Music Series: Solas agus Scáth
Kevin Barry Recital Room, National Concert Hall
Photo: Amanda Feery, credit Dennis Cassidy.
Featuring artists:
Mia Cooper, violin
Siún Milne, violin
Ruth Gibson, viola
David Kenny, viola
Brian O’Kane, cello
Aoife Burke, cello
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.
To open its 2026 Chamber Music Series, the National Concert Hall presents a programme of works, curated by cellist Aoife Burke, exploring light and darkness, shade and shadow. The concert will begin with Max Richter’s heart-wrenching "On the Nature of Daylight", from the composer’s 2004 album The Blue Notebooks, conceived in protest to the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. A short piece by renowned Irish composer Amanda Feery will follow, a solo violin work, Thighs in Bark, about the Greek myth of Daphne, who was transformed into a laurel tree by her father. The piece traces the stages of Daphne’s transformation into a tree, from the snapping of wood, to the blossoming of a shade-offering canopy of laurel leaves, and a final stage of rootedness. Josef Rheinberger’s sacred motet, Abendlied, tells of evening shadows darkening. It is arranged here for string sextet, and acts as a beautiful taster of the richness of string writing embodied in the final work of this programme, Brahms’ first String Sextet.
Programme
Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
Amanda Feery - Thighs in Bark, for Solo Violin
Josef Rheinberger - Abendlied
Brahms - Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major
Tickets
€17.50. Booking at the NCH.