An evening of music at Tullynally Castle
The outstanding Lir Quartet was formed in 2016 at Barry Douglas’ Clandeboye Festival. They come together this year for the first time since the pandemic, working as NSQF Fellowship Quartet at the ConCorda chamber music course in August, followed by a five concert summer tour of Cork and Kerry. This autumn they bring their superb summer programme to four venues nationwide.
Fanny Mendelssohn’s 1834 string quartet remained unpublished until 1988 but is now a core and much loved work in the quartet repertoire. Bach’s Chorale Prelude BWV668 offers a short interlude before a new quartet by Kerry composer Harry O’Connor. A graduate of MTU Cork School of Music, Harry is continuing his composition studies at Oxford where the Castalian Quartet premiered his fine Summer Idyll earlier this year. Brahms’ C minor quartet is one of the greats, its dramatic and impassioned outer movements contrasting with the sublime beauty and lyricism of the Romanze and the relaxed musings of the third movement.
This concert is toured by the National String Quartet Foundation and funded by the Arts Council and supported by Lyric fm.
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2024/25 Concert schedule Venue: Tullynally Castle
Saturday 28th September 2024, Pirosmani Quartet
presented in association with the NSQF
Saturday 26th October 2024, Lir Quartet
presented in association with the NSQF
Saturday 30th November 2024, Francisco Fullana & Alba Ventura
presented in association with Music Network
Full details of the Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025 concerts can be found here