Are you a fan of chamber music? If so then you need to be all over this. It’s a fresh name for the classic musical festival which will see six days in eight iconic building showcase nine great musical performances for you in June.
The festival will run from June 12th to 17th 2012 and will see tickets for these world class concerts be available at €20 or less with the aim of being recession friendly. The festival will bring some of the finest chamber musicians in the world to Ireland and have them play in less formal surroundings.
It will see the Irish premiere of Steve Reich’s powerful Drumming and The Colin Currie Group will mark the festival’s frist ever performance in the National Concert Hall on June 17th. Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time will be performed on June 13th. The festival opens on the 12th at Rathfarnham Castle with quartets Haydn and Schubert performing Korngold’s Third Quartet.
The full schedule is below for you to make your chamber plans.
KBC Great Music in Irish Houses 2012 Programme
June 12th at 8.00 pm in Rathfarnham Castle
Doric String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in D major op 20 no 4
Korngold: String Quartet No 3 in D major, op 34
Schubert: String Quartet in A minor, D804 “Rosamunde”
June 13th at 8.00 pm in Smock Alley
Finghin Collins, piano; Catherine Leonard, violin; Guy Johnston, cello and Carol McGonnell clarinet
Salvatore Sciarrino: Let me die before I wake for solo clarinet
Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
June 14th at 6.00 pm in The Little Museum of Dublin
Xuefei Yang, guitar
A Musical Salute to Spain and Ireland
Music by Albeniz, De Falla, Tarrega and Benjamin Dwyer
June 15th at 8.00 pm in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Dermot Dunne, accordion; Katherine Hunka, violin; & Carol McGonnell, clarinet
Kodály: Dances of Galanta
Piazzolla: Tangos
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
June 16th at 11.30am in the Mansion House
Elias Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, op 64 no 6
Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, op 132
June 16th at 8.00 pm in Killruddery House
Tara Erraught, mezzo-soprano and Henning Ruhe, piano
Hamilton Harty: Irish Songs
Schumann: Frauenliebe und-leben, op 42
Wolf: Selection from Mörike- Lieder
Er ists
Dasverlassene Mägdlein
Begegnung
Verborgenheit
Lied eines Verliebten
Nixe Binsefuß
Handel: Dopo notte (Ariodante) and Lascia ch’io pianga (Rinaldo)
Mozart: Parto Parto (La Clemenza di Tito)
June 17th at 3.00 pm in Castletown House
Elias Quartet and Xuefei Yang, guitar
Rodrigo: Invocacion y danza for Solo Guitar
JS: Bach Violin Concerto in A minor for Guitar and String Quartet, BWV 1041
Boccherini: Quintet in D major G448, Fandango
Dvorak String Quartet in Eb major, op 51
June 17th at 6.30 pm in the Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall – Support Act
Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint for Guitar Ensemble
June 17th at 7.30 pm in the National Concert Hall
Colin Currie Group
Steve Reich: Drumming (Irish première)