By Rose Rushe
WORKING well in advance, Irish Chamber Orchestra announces details of its Autumn/ Winter season at University Concert Hall, Limerick and the RDS in Dublin, with a Christmas appearance pencilled in for Cork.
2014/15 will be a third season working with artistic partners, Hungarian conductor Gábor Tákacs Nagy, principal, and clarinettist and composer Jörg Widmann, principal guest conductor/ artistic partner. The orchestra, Takacs Nagy and Widmann together present “a combined vision with two very distinctive styles of programming for the season ahead”.
For the purpose of this article, we chime with September concerts set for Thursday 11 in Limerick and Friday 12. Haydn, Wagner, Bartok feature under the baton of the Hungarian artist, marking the end of Tákacs Nagy’s symphonic journey with Haydn.
“The programme is booked-ended by two of his celebrated London symphonies,” marketing manager Charlotte Eglington tells us. “‘The Clock’ epitomises Haydn’s wit with elegance, alongside his final and greatest ‘London Symphony’ which is a tour de force, a work of consummate mastery”.
Wagner’s romantic ‘Siegfried Idyll’ was named so after his son.
Finally, Bartok’s landmark set of six quartets spanned his creative life and his first, with apparent echoes of ‘Siegfried Idyll’ showing a young composer greatly influenced by Wagner in its harmonic intricacy.
Book for Thursday September 11 at the box office of UCH or online at www.uch.ie for this season launch. Preview the full A/W season at the orchestra’s own www.irishchamberorchestra.com
