ANTHONY Marwood launches his Irish Chamber Orchestra 2010/11 season with a Beethoven night that features First Symphony, alongside Beethoven’s only Violin Concerto, the D, Op. 61, one of the most famous orchestral violin works composed.
Marwood, artistic director of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, is sought after as a guest soloist on the international stage. In the coming season he will perform with some of the world’s leading ensembles and orchestras such as the Boston Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Marwood is a Hyperion label artist and has made well over 30 recordings. A violinist with the celebrated Florestan Trio, Limerick can attest to the quality of his artistry, musicianship and direction at UCH on Thursday, September 23, 8pm.
“Beethoven’s First Symphony is a superbly balanced act between tension and release, interspersed with brilliant examples of musical wit and was hugely popular in the early 19th century,” says Charlotte Eglington, PRO for the orchestra. “The unique qualities of his stunning Violin Concerto in D, the maestro’s only surviving concerto, limits speculation on what sort of work he might have produced had Beethoven composed a second concerto in his lifetime. His Symphony No. 1 in C shows us in embryo all those qualities which made Beethoven the greatest symphonic writer the world has thus far produced”.
This 8pm programme also showcases the ICO’s newly contracted wind players in a short work by French composer Darius Milhaud. Book on www.uch.ie.
