HLG Sunday Concert Series Presents: Spotlight II, Cassiopeia Winds

From the Abbey Presbyterian Church on Parnell Square, the HLG Sunday Concert Series presents:

Spotlight II: Cassiopeia Winds

Catriona Ryan – Flute

Matthew Manning – Oboe

Deirdre O'Leary – Clarinet

John Hearne – Bassoon

Cormac Ó hAodáin – French Horn

Programme:

Ibert: Trois Pièces Brèves

Cambini: Wind Quintet No. 3

Deslandres: Trois Pièces en Quintette

Trimble: Three Diversions

Arnold: Three Shanties, Op. 4

For this concert, the Hugh Lane Gallery Sunday Concert Series partners with the Spotlight Chamber Music Series to present the renowned Cassiopeia Winds with an eclectic programme of works for wind quintet.

Written in 1930, French composer Jacques Ibert’s only work for wind quintet, his good-humoured and colourful Three Short Pieces (Allegro, Andante and Assez lent – Allegro Scherzando), will open the recital. This will be followed by Giuseppe Cambini’s third and final wind quintet, which was composed in 1802, comprising two sonata form movements (Allegro maestoso and Larghetto sostenuto) and a Rondo (Allegro con brio) finale. Adolphe Deslandres’ three charming pieces for wind quintet, written in 1900, will precede Joan Trimble’s Three Diversions – Preamble, Pastoral and Burleske – which were commissioned in 1990 by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland to mark the composer’s 75th birthday. The programme will conclude with three jovial and boisterous shanties written by Malcolm Arnold early in his career.

This promises to be an exciting, engaging and wonderfully varied recital, given by five instrumentalists of the highest calibre.