IRISH Chamber Orchestra returns to typical form – world class – at University Concert Hall on Friday October 9 following the season launch with ‘Agrippina’, achieved with other stakeholders.
Post-opera, pianist Finghin Collins is this concert’s peak interest with violinist Katherine Hunka directing “revolutionary moments in music in Haydn, Mozart and Stravinksy”.
According to the orchestra’s Charlotte Eglington, “Haydn’s D Major Piano Concerto is witty and dramatic and Finghin Collins will clearly delight in the humour of the piece, enjoying its unpredictable twists and turns.
“He also performs Stravinsky’s short Septet with ICO musicians, which is full of lively rhythmic patterns, fascinating interplay, dance-like impulses and acerbic harmonies so typical of the composer. The orchestra relishes the opportunity to perform another masterwork by Stravinksy. His eerie and mysterious Concerto in D for Strings is virtuosic and unparalleled in the repertoire for string orchestra”.
This UL based orchestra precedes the Limerick date in Dublin at the RDS on October 8 and follows through in Galway on Saturday 10, Black Box Theatre.
The programme is book-ended by exquisite symphonies by Mozart. His Symphony in D major, K 196/121 is a compact piece while his Symphony No. 29, composed as an 18 year-old, “blazes like the sun and is one of Mozart’s finest in terms of expressivity and mastery”. www.uch.ie
