Programme 2019 "Notes from Literature"
ThursdAY, 30TH OF May
7.30PM, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL
“Pimpinone” by Georg Philipp Telemann
in partnership with Opera Collective Ireland
Opera in three acts. Sung in English. Irish Premiere.
A comic opera first performed in 1725 and hugely popular in its day with both story and music delightfully entertaining. Vespetta, a chambermaid, is looking for a rich husband. She decides the wealthy and gullible Pimpinone fits the bill but discovers she is not quite suited to the responsibilities that come with marriage!
Pimpinone Rory Dunne (bass-baritone)
Vespetta Kelli-Ann Masterson (soprano)
Peter Whelan (music director)
Jonathan Cocker (stage director)
Claire Duff (1st violin); Anita Vedres (2nd Violin); Marja Gaynor (viola); Aoife NicAthlaoich (cello)
Sarah Halpin (double bass); Alex Mc Cartney (theorbo);
FRIDAY, 31st OF May
3.00pM, St. flannan's cathedral
Matinee
“Pimpinone” by Georg Philipp Telemann
in partnership with Opera Collective Ireland
Opera in three acts. Sung in English. Irish Premiere.
A comic opera first performed in 1725 and hugely popular in its day with both story and music delightfully entertaining. Vespetta, a chambermaid, is looking for a rich husband. She decides the wealthy and gullible Pimpinone fits the bill but discovers she is not quite suited to the responsibilities that come with marriage!
Pimpinone Rory Dunne (bass-baritone)
Vespetta Kelli-Ann Masterson (soprano)
Peter Whelan (music director)
Jonathan Cocker (stage director)
Claire Duff (1st violin); Anita Vedres (2nd Violin); Marja Gaynor (viola); Aoife NicAthlaoich (cello)
Sarah Halpin (double bass); Alex Mc Cartney (theorbo);
We invite under 18s to enjoy the musical fun FREE at this afternoon performance of Pimpinone.
7.30pm, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL
The adventures of Don Quixote in music and song with readings by Barry Mc Govern. A new composition by Irish composer Sam Perkin and the Piano Quintet by Elgar. Telemann and Ravel were among the composers inspired by the Cervantes classic novel. Sam Perkin's Festival commission is a Duet for violin and Baroque violin and after the interval Elgar's piano quintet.
George Philipp Telemann
Don Quixote Suite for Strings and Continuo in G Major
Peter Whelan (harpsichord);
Claire Duff, Anita Vedres (violins);
Marja Gaynor (viola);
Aoife Nic Athlaloich (cello);
Sarah Halpin (double bass); Alex Mc Cartney (theorbo)
Reading of Cervantes’
“Don Quixote”
Barry McGovern
Maurice Ravel
"Don Quichotte a Dulcinée"
for voice and piano.
Maurice Ravel's song cycle based on the story of Don Quixote sung by Rory Dunne, bass-baritone. Michael McHale, piano.
Sam Perkin
The Copy and The Original (2019) For Baroque Violin and Modern Violin
Commissioned by Killaloe Chamber Music Festival 2019
Diane Daly (violin);
Claire Duff (Baroque violin)
Edward Elgar
Piano Quintet op.84
Navarra String Quartet
Michael McHale (piano)
100th anniversary of its first performance
SATURDAY, 1st OF June
9.00am, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL
CREATIVE WRITING SESSION
I am in Need of Music
A music-inspired creative writing session with writer Jessica Brown
Motifs, cadence, crescendos, emotions, memories, and the imaginary; a beautiful tradition exists between music and writing. Inspired by this year's theme Notes from Literature this creative writing session will offer a series of prose and poetry prompts exploring the experiences of music put to words. Come and enjoy in the Chapter Room at St Flannan's Cathedral.
Session costs €15
Limited spaces, please pre-register by emailing jessicabrown4@gmail.com
7.30pm, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL
11.00am, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL
"Emerging Artist Platform"
Matthew Breen (organ/jazz piano)
A not to be missed opportunity to hear St. Flannan’s magnificent organ and some early morning jazz by the hugely talented Matthew Breen.
Johann Sebastian Bach Organ Concerto in A minor BWV 593
Donnacha Dennehy Work for Organ
Edward Elgar Chanson de Matin, Chanson de Nuit (Organ)
A collection of Jazz preludes and improvisations (Piano)
Frederick Scotson Clark Marche aux flambeaux (Organ)
Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata is the key to tonight's concert. Dedicated by Beethoven to the famous violinist Rudolph Kreutzer, it inspired Tolstoy to write his novella of the same name during which the sonata is performed. Later the Tolstoy work was the inspiration for Janaček's Kreutzer Sonata. Tolstoy's jealousy of the composer Sergei Taneyev is well documented. We will hear some of Taneyev's most beautiful works for solo piano tonight.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Kreutzer Sonata op.47
Katherine Hunka (violin);
Michael McHale (piano)
Sergej Taneyev
Works for solo piano
Michael McHale (piano)
Reading of Leo Tolstoy’s “Kreutzer Sonata”
Barry McGovern
Leos Janaček
String Quartet No.1 “Kreutzer Sonata”
Navarra String Quartet
10.00pm, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL
The music of George Gershwin
Voice, strings, saxophones and piano for your late night entertainment!
with singer Kathleen Turner, Katherine Hunka (violin), Eoin Scanlon (piano), the Navarra String Quartet, Michael McHale (piano), the Chatham Saxophone Quartet.
Sunday, 2nd of June
3.00pm, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL
Children's Concert "Let's play together!" - Directed by diane daly
This is where we hand over the platform to the next generation of young musicians with a concert played by local children under the direction of Diane Daly.
7.30pm, ST. FLANNAN’S CATHEDRAL - Festival Finale
This Concert is dedicated to the memory of John Kelly and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
“Romeo and Juliet” is the theme of our final concert this year with music by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Bernstein. The tomb scene from the Shakespeare play was the inspiration for the tragic second movement of Beethoven's String Quartet op.18 No.1. Prokofiev's Ten Pieces for piano op.75 are drawn from his great ballet score Romeo and Juliet and in 1957 Leonard Bernstein based his contemporary setting of the story in New York's West Side. We'll hear a suite from West Side Story arranged for Saxophone Quartet.
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet op.18 No.1
The Navarra String Quartet
Scenes from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
Performed by Aisling Ryan and Martin McCormack, students of the Department of Drama and Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College Limerick
Sergey Prokofiev
10 pieces from Romeo and Juliet op.75 for solo piano
Michael McHale (piano)
Leonard Bernstein
Suite from West Side Story (arrangement)
Chatham Saxophone Quartet
Dave Mullen (percussion)
TALKS
A series of talks will take place at 7pm prior to the main Chamber Music Concerts, these will be held in the side chapel. Dr Michael Murphy of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick will give a talk about each of the evening Chamber Music Concerts. Michael Murphy has lectured in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick since 2001. He has published three books on music in the nineteenth century, and has created many music documentaries for RTÉ lyric fm.
Friday 31st May: “The music of Don Quixote”
Saturday 1st June: “The music of the Kreutzer Sonata”
Sunday 2 June: “The music of Romeo and Juliet”
ART EXHIBITION
In addition to the musical offerings, works by artists John Shinnors and Trish Taylor Thompson will be on view in the entrance foyer of St Flannan's Cathedral throughout the festival from 9:30am until the end of each evenings concert.