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There have been many classic chamber music works performed at Con Brio concerts over the years but none more worthy of the description than Franz Schubert’s masterwork, his string quartet No. 14 in D minor, better known as “Death and the Maiden”. This pillar of the chamber music repertoire is the opening piece of the […]
Clonmelâs Finding a Voice festival, a festival devoted exclusively to music by women, is happening online this year, the only way thatâs possible for it. The great Japanese marimba player Keiko Abe and percussionist/composer Evelyn Glennie are among the names represented in the opening programme performed by Alex Petcu, who will also play a new work by Elaine Agnew.
There will be songs by Pauline Viardot, marking the bicentenary of the birth of the great French singer and composer, for whom Berlioz made the now-dominant version of Gluckâs Orfeo ed Euridice with Orfeo cast as a mezzo-soprano. Thatâs in concert by soprano Kelley Lonergan, actor Aideen Wylde and pianist Gabriela Mayer.
Look east A season of Japanese film is available to rent from the IFI from March 5, including classics of the genre as well as newer movies.
Japanese Story includes
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985), the cult musical about two wannabe popstars, and 2009’s
Fish Story, a science-fiction tale of an obscure rock band’s single making a strange journey through time. See ifihome.ie
Focal suas International Irish language festival Seachtain na Gaeilge le Energia is on from March 1-17, and this year’s ambassadors are musician Imelda May, Limerick hurling captain Declan Hannon and presenter Bláthnaid Treacy. Thousands of activities will be taking place online and everyone from those with just the cúpla focal to fluent speakers are encouraged to join in.