From Cork to Buenos Aires to Paris at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on Friday 6 June. Music from across the globe, from Ireland to Argentina to Greece. Part of Cork PianoFest, in association with MTU Cork School of Music.
A whistle-stop world tour starting in Ireland, with music from Cork composers Linda Buckley and John Gibson, Dublin composer Philip Martin and Bill Whelan’s solo piano transcription ‘The Currach” from his double violin concerto; all commissioned by the Dublin International Piano Competition. We then head for Argentina and the music of Carlos Guastavino. His set of four colonial songs is followed by Ravel’s setting of five popular Greek folksong melodies, and finally a selection of his Miroirs for solo piano.
The melancholic birdsong of Oiseaux tristes is followed by the sardonic humour and strumming guitar chords of Alborada del gracioso, before the chiming Parisian midday bells of La vallée des cloches bring the series to its conclusion.
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