Irish Songmakers 2019/2020 Season at The National Concert Hall, Dublin
“Beloved Clara…”
Songs by Clara Wieck-Schumann, Robert Schumann & Johannes Brahms
Irish Songmakers kick-off their 2019/20 Series with a recital of songs by Clara Wieck-Schumann, Robert Schumann & Johannes Brahms in celebration of Clara’s 200th birthday year. Join Irish performers Victoria Massey, Amy Ní Fhearraigh, Andrew Gavin and Niall Kinsella for a lunchtime of beautiful German lieder.
A gifted virtuoso pianist and renowned composer, Clara Schumann (née Wieck) was a woman ahead of her time. Even after her marriage to composer Robert Schumann, a marriage that was met with much resistance from her father, Clara maintained an active performing life. The Schumanns’ friendship with the younger Johannes Brahms is well documented, and it is rumored that Brahms was secretly, or maybe not so secretly, in love with Clara.
In this recital, we explore the beautiful world of these three composers’ songs, featuring such treasures as ‘Widmung’, ‘Liebst du um Schönheit’, ‘Die Mainacht’ and others.
Victoria Massey, mezzo-soprano
Amy Ní Fhearraigh, soprano
Andrew Gavin, tenor
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 18th October 2019, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
Songs by Clara Wieck-Schumann, Robert Schumann & Johannes Brahms
Irish Songmakers kick-off their 2019/20 Series with a recital of songs by Clara Wieck-Schumann, Robert Schumann & Johannes Brahms in celebration of Clara’s 200th birthday year. Join Irish performers Victoria Massey, Amy Ní Fhearraigh, Andrew Gavin and Niall Kinsella for a lunchtime of beautiful German lieder.
A gifted virtuoso pianist and renowned composer, Clara Schumann (née Wieck) was a woman ahead of her time. Even after her marriage to composer Robert Schumann, a marriage that was met with much resistance from her father, Clara maintained an active performing life. The Schumanns’ friendship with the younger Johannes Brahms is well documented, and it is rumored that Brahms was secretly, or maybe not so secretly, in love with Clara.
In this recital, we explore the beautiful world of these three composers’ songs, featuring such treasures as ‘Widmung’, ‘Liebst du um Schönheit’, ‘Die Mainacht’ and others.
Victoria Massey, mezzo-soprano
Amy Ní Fhearraigh, soprano
Andrew Gavin, tenor
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 18th October 2019, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
Majella Cullagh in Recital
Including songs by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini.
Internationally renowned Cork soprano Majella Cullagh performs a recital of her favourite repertoire, with pianist Niall Kinsella. Join Majella for a concert of beautiful music, including songs by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, composers with whom Majella has become most closely associated throughout her glittering career.
Majella Cullagh in one of Ireland’s foremost international sopranos and has graced the great stages and halls of the world including Glyndebourne, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Danish Royal Opera, La Fenice, Venice, Royal Albert Hall, London, Arena di Verona, The Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Cadogan Hall, London, to name a few. She has an impressive discography of over 30 operatic recordings across the majority of the major recording labels.
Majella Cullagh, soprano
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 24th January 2020, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
Including songs by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini.
Internationally renowned Cork soprano Majella Cullagh performs a recital of her favourite repertoire, with pianist Niall Kinsella. Join Majella for a concert of beautiful music, including songs by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, composers with whom Majella has become most closely associated throughout her glittering career.
Majella Cullagh in one of Ireland’s foremost international sopranos and has graced the great stages and halls of the world including Glyndebourne, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Danish Royal Opera, La Fenice, Venice, Royal Albert Hall, London, Arena di Verona, The Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Cadogan Hall, London, to name a few. She has an impressive discography of over 30 operatic recordings across the majority of the major recording labels.
Majella Cullagh, soprano
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 24th January 2020, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Irish tenor Eamonn Mulhall and pianist Niall Kinsella perform Schubert’s first iconic song-cycle, Die schöne Müllerin. Composed in 1823, this beloved cycle explores themes of unrequited love, jealousy and heartbreak as a young man falls in love with a Miller’s daughter over the course of twenty songs. In Die schöne Müllerin, Schubert takes inspiration from folksong, and fashions these songs into a narrative that explores a wide variety of scenes and emotions. Die schöne Müllerin would become a blueprint for his later song-cycle, and arguably his greatest work, Winterreise.
Eamonn Mulhall, tenor
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 21st February 2020, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
Irish tenor Eamonn Mulhall and pianist Niall Kinsella perform Schubert’s first iconic song-cycle, Die schöne Müllerin. Composed in 1823, this beloved cycle explores themes of unrequited love, jealousy and heartbreak as a young man falls in love with a Miller’s daughter over the course of twenty songs. In Die schöne Müllerin, Schubert takes inspiration from folksong, and fashions these songs into a narrative that explores a wide variety of scenes and emotions. Die schöne Müllerin would become a blueprint for his later song-cycle, and arguably his greatest work, Winterreise.
Eamonn Mulhall, tenor
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 21st February 2020, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
Le Petit Parisien: French Mélodies [POSTPONED due to COVID-19]
Songs by Satie, Poulenc, Hahn and others, including Poulenc’s La Dame de Monte Carlo.
Renowned soprano Sandra Oman performs a programme of French art-songs in a recital that is sure to transport you to the Paris of bygone years. Embracing her love of French music, Sandra, with pianist Niall Kinsella, explore songs by Reynaldo Hahn, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and others. Focusing particularly on early 20th-Century French songs, the programme showcases the melting pot of musical influences at this time, which combined older musical traditions with new sounds and modes of expression.
Sandra Oman, soprano
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 3rd April 2020, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
Songs by Satie, Poulenc, Hahn and others, including Poulenc’s La Dame de Monte Carlo.
Renowned soprano Sandra Oman performs a programme of French art-songs in a recital that is sure to transport you to the Paris of bygone years. Embracing her love of French music, Sandra, with pianist Niall Kinsella, explore songs by Reynaldo Hahn, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and others. Focusing particularly on early 20th-Century French songs, the programme showcases the melting pot of musical influences at this time, which combined older musical traditions with new sounds and modes of expression.
Sandra Oman, soprano
Niall Kinsella, piano
Friday 3rd April 2020, 1:05pm
National Concert Hall, Dublin
Tickets €15 | Concessions €13
