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1 15th – 19th May, 2019 Lauren Fagan (soprano) © Victoria Cadisch 2 International Concert Series 2018/2019 Boston Symphony Chamber Players Tuesday 21 May 8pm Françaix Dixtuor for wind quintet and string quintet Mozart Quartet for oboe and strings in F major, K. 370 Michael Gandolfi Plain Song, Fantastic Dances for strings and winds Beethoven Septet for strings and winds in E flat, Op. 20 Made up of principal players from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players (BSCP) are one of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles. Tickets from €19.50 nch.ie 01 417 0000 Welcome 3 Welcome to the West Wicklow Festival 2019. Time has flown since the inaugural Festival in 2017 and I am hugely excited about our third festival which will build on the enormous success of previous years. This year’s programme celebrates two important themes. Firstly, 2019 marks the second centenary of the birth of perhaps the world’s most significant female composer, Clara Schumann. To honour her legacy we feature arguably her greatest work for solo piano, the Variations Op. 20, her stunning 3 Songs Op. 12 and the poignant 3 Romances for violin and piano Op. 22. The Festival is also proud to recognise other significant Irish and international female composers and will feature works by Rhoda Coghill, Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, Rhona Clarke and Joan Trimble. The 2019 programme further includes seminal works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok, Dvorak, Gershwin, Janacek, Kreisler, Liszt, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schumann, Strauss and more! Secondly, by way of contrast, 2019 also marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921).
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