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FUAIM Concert - The Vanbrugh & Friends - 28/03/25, 1:10pm, Devere Hall, UCC
Join us on Friday, 28th March at 1:10 PM at the Devere Hall for a captivating concert of classical masterpieces. The Meliora Quartet will perform the powerful first movement of Beethoven’s Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2 Razumovsky. Then, the Vanrugh will bring Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 to life, a work often called the “Champagne Quintet” for its sparkling, effervescent opening. A liquid lunch not to be missed!
Meliora Quartet
Cillian O Cathasaigh, violin Kate Ní Shé, violins Kseniia Yershova, viola Oscar Casey, cello
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor Op.59 No.2 Razoumovsky, first movement
Vanbrugh & Friends
Keith Pascoe, violin Marja Gaynor, violin Simon Aspell, viola Ed Creedon, viola Christopher Marwood, cello
Mozart - String Quintet in C major K.515 [1787]
Adjectives have been heaped on Mozart’s C major quintet – elegant, sublime, majestic, joyful, bewitching… call it what you will, they are all testament to its timeless appeal. We call it the Champagne Quintet, after its bubbly opening!
The Vanbrugh has evolved from the work of the Vanbrugh Quartet which was based in Cork as RTE’s Resident Quartet from 1986 to 2013 and as Artists-in-Residence at University College, Cork from 1990 until the retirement of violinist Gregory Ellis in 2017. Over three decades the quartet gave close to three thousand concerts, presenting the chamber music repertoire to audiences throughout Ireland, Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. Commercial recordings include more than thirty CDs of repertoire ranging from the complete Beethoven quartets to many contemporary Irish works. In 2016 the group was presented with the National Concert Hall’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their contribution to music in Ireland.
Keith Pascoe, Simon Aspell, and Christopher Marwood continue to perform together as the nucleus of the Vanbrugh and are joined by guest artists for performances of a wide range of chamber music repertoire.