War & Peace: Irish Chamber Orchestra /Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Director / Fiona Kelly, Emma Roche, Flute

War & Peace: Irish Chamber Orchestra /Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Director / Fiona Kelly, Emma Roche, Flute

Thursday, 8 December 2016, 8.00pm

Irish Chamber Orchestra
Jean-Christophe Spinosi Director
Fiona Kelly, Emma RocheFlute 

Shostakovich   8th String Quartet /Chamber Symphony Op.110a (arr. Barshai)
Corelli  Christmas Concerto
Telemann  Concerto TWV 52:e1 in E minor for Flute, Recorder, Strings & Bass Continuo
Haydn  Symphony 83 in G minor, Hob. I:83 La Poule

Shostakovich’s 8th String Quartet is one of the most powerful and personal compositions of the twentieth-century, dedicated to the victims of war and inspired by the destruction of Dresden.  It conveys a sense of a world falling apart in a hallucinatory slow motion. Barshai’s transcription was authorised by the composer himself, and magnifies the inherent tragedy and drama of the music. Christmas concertos were popular in Italy, and Corelli’s Christmas Concerto is easily his best-known work.  Telemann’s concerto in four uniquely contrasting movements is more like a series of small tone poems than a typical Baroque concerto, which holds its audience by variations more or less within the same psychic space.  Of Haydn’s Paris Symphonies, No. 83 La Poule is a seminal work marking a new level of compositional skills, launching the important cycle of mature symphonies and the aesthetic basis for their extraordinary appeal. It is light and sensitive in spirit and displays, to great effect, Haydn‘s humour & ingenuity, and the variety of his fertile imagination.

Concert Dates
20:00, Thursday, December 8, 2016
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick
Tickets

19:30, Friday, December 9, 2016
St. John’s Church, Waterford
Tickets

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Published by Journal of Music on 15 November 2016

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