Concert: Marmen Quartet on Tour Around Ireland in November
The Marmen Quartet are on tour from November 24-29 across Ireland, locations include Sligo, Tipperary, Cork and Dublin.
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Presented by the National String Quartet Foundation.
Cork cellist Sinead O’Halloran joined the Marmen Quartet in June of 2021 at a time when the quartet’s international star continues to rise, with a busy schedule including concerts at the Berlin Philharmonic, the BBC Proms and the Lucerne Festival. Their programme for this tour opens with one of Bartok’s greatest and most riveting masterpieces, its tightly symmetrical structure centered on a deeply atmospheric central movement. Ian Wilson’s slick and entertaining collage of famous Rossini themes is followed by Beethoven’s towering second Rasoumovsky quartet with, at its heart, a rapturous slow movement inspired by contemplation of the starry firmament.
Locations:
SLIGO – Thursday, 24 November at 8pm – Methodist Church, Wine St – presented by Con Brio Sligo.
THURLES – Friday, 25 November at 7 pm – The Source Arts Centre.
CORK – Saturday, 26 November at 1pm – Triskel Christchurch.
DUBLIN – Sunday, 27 November at 3pm – National Concert Hall.
CASTLECONNELL – Tuesday, 29 November at 8pm – All Saints’ Church – presented by Limerick City and
County Council.
Marmen Quartet:
Johannes Marmen, violin
Laia Valentin Braun, violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Sinéad O’Halloran, cello
Programme:
Bartok – Quartet No.4 in C major [1928]
Ian Wilson – ‘Rossiniana’ [2018]
Beethoven – Quartet Op.59 No.2 ‘Rasoumovsky’ [1808]
