Following the clamorous Midwinter Festival featuring the works of Maurice Ravel, Music for Galway’s offensive against the darkness and the cold continues with a concert featuring the virtuosic Fidelio Trio in the welcoming setting the Hardiman Hotel’s ballroom, on Monday, February 17, at 7.30pm.
The trio returns to Galway to perform a programme filled with pillars of the piano trio repertoire.
Masterpieces by Beethoven and Schubert frame Edward Steuermann’s transcription for piano trio of Schoenberg’s sensuous late Romantic string sextet ‘Transfigured Night’, inspired by a poem by Richard Dehmel.
The poem from 1896 bears a message of remarkable modernity and transcending love: A woman confesses to her lover that she carries the child of another. He assures her that this is no obstacle for them, as their love will transfigure the ‘alien’ child into theirs.
Beethoven’s ‘Ghost Trio’ will open the evening, bringing a roller coaster of emotions from stridency, through doubt, loneliness and despair, to joyful exuberance. The sumptuous sounds of Schubert’s Piano Trio Op. 100 – its Andante famously put to great use by Stanley Kubrick in Barry Lyndon - comprises the second half of the concert.
The Fidelio Trio are Darragh Morgan, violin; Tim Gill, cello; and Mary Dullea, piano.
Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, The Fidelio Trio broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WQXR, and have been featured on a Sky Arts documentary.
Tickets range from €10 to €20. See www.musicforgalway.ie or phone 091 705962.
Music for Galway gratefully acknowledges the support from the Arts Council. This concert has been made possible by additional support from Tigh Neachtain.
