Booking available HERE from 10am Monday 2nd February
Venue – Abbey Presbyterian Church www.abbeychurch.ie/
Hugh Lane Sunday Concert Series and the National String Quartet Foundation present:: Lumiere Quartet
Ioana Petcu-Colan, violin
Elaine Clark, violin
Nathan Sherman, viola
Carina Drury, cello
Haydn – String Quartet in D minor Op.76 No.2 Fifths [1797]
Donnacha Dennehy – Pushpulling [2007]
Beethoven – String Quartet in F major Op.18 No.1 [1798-1800]
The Lumiere Quartet explores the expressive, authentic, soundworld created by playing with classical bows on gut strings rather than today’s more practical steel strings. For this concert they present two wonderful classical quartets alongside a short work by Donnacha Dennehy.
Haydn’s Op.76 was his last complete set of quartets, written at the height of his extraordinary powers and for sizeable public audiences befitting his fame as a composer. No.2 in D minor features a virtuosic finale with a distinctly Hungarian flavour
Describing Pushpulling, Donnacha Dennehy writes of the poignancy of ever-elongating pushes away from home, only to return, as sure as night follows day, to the same position again.
Beethoven’s iconic F major quartet was written only a year or two after the Haydn quartet but in his first set of quartets the 28 year old composer is already exploring new and boldly original directions. At the heart of the work is a slow movement of great drama and emotional power, inspired by the tomb scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
