Ficino Quartet
The Ficino Quartet comprises four of our most decorated musicians who have been playing as a quartet for many years and have featured in every National String Quartet Foundation season. This autumn they present one of Beethoven’s greatest masterpieces, his A minor quartet Op.132. Perhaps most famous for its moving slow movement, the Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, the quartet as a whole depicts a quite extraordinary range of emotions, from the urgency and searching of the opening, through the homely conversations of the second movement and the radiance of the slow third movement, to the glorious finale. Amanda Feery’s From Ashes was written in 2019 as a prelude to the Beethoven quartet, introducing and exploring some of its motifs and ideas. They open with Haydn’s famous and popular Sunrise quartet. FICINO QUARTET Elaine Clark, violin Lynda O’Connor, violin Nathan Sherman, viola Ailbhe McDonagh, cello PROGRAMME Haydn - String Quartet in B flat major Op.76 No.4 Sunrise [1797] Amanda Feery - From Ashes [2019] Beethoven - String Quartet in A minor Op.132 [1825] Audience members under 18 years old can avail of a discount courtesy of Music Generation Mayo. Please contact Box Office for further details.