Great Music in Irish Houses New Year's Eve Online Concert
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About this Event
Music: A Message of Hope
In difficult times, in music there is hope. With that thought in mind, the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival is closing this particularly difficult year with a special New Year’s Eve concert recorded in the magnificent setting of Dublin Castle’s Chapel Royal. Featuring violinist Katherine Hunka; cellist, William Butt; clarinettist John Finucane, and pianists Finghin Collins, Fionnuala Moynihan and Hugh Tinney, the event will include movements from Messiaen’s evocative and inspiring Quartet for the End of Time performed alongside works for solo piano by German composers, Clara and Robert Schumann.
First performed on a brutally cold January night in 1941, the Quartet for the End of Time gave a measure of comfort to the composer's fellow prisoners at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Görlitz, Germany during World War II. A similar measure of “of unfailing light, of immutable peace” (Messiaen) is wished for the Festival’s audiences as we leave this challenging year and look to the next with hope.
The concert will be free to view until Friday, January 15th at 6.00 pm, the 80th anniversary of the first performance of Messiaen's seminal work.
However, you may wish to consider a donation of any amount to help us maintain our longstanding goal - that, of bringing world-class performers and exciting programmes to unique spaces in Ireland.
Presented in partnership with the Office of Public Works in association with Dublin Castle, the French Embassy in Ireland and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Dublin
PROGRAMME
Olivier Messiaen: Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus
Clara Schumann: Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann Op 20
Olivier Messiaen: Abîme des oiseaux
Robert Schumann: Drei Fantasiestücke Op 111
Olivier Messiaen: Louange à l'immortalité de Jésus
Further information can be found on www.DICMF.com
The Great Music in Irish Houses Festival is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media