1/3/2012
Barrow River Arts Festival
Two venues, London
The 2nd edition features concerts and an exhibition of the English Abstract Expressionist painter Albert Irvin.
Programme
Friday 2nd March
Katia and Marielle Labèque - Piano
For many years Katia and Marielle Labèque have formed one of the most widely recognised and popular piano duos on the international scene. They have performed with the leading conductors and orchestras of the age, and are frequently invited to appear at the most prestigious music festivals in Europe and overseas. A record audience of 33,000 enjoyed their concert in 2005 together with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the German capital’s famed Waldbühne. For the opening gala concert of the 2012 Barrow
River Arts Festival, in the magnificent setting of the 13th century Duiske Abbey, they will perform works by Debussy, Stravinsky and Gershwin.
Tickets: €30.00/€25.00
Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny.
8pm
Saturday 3rd March
Opening of Albert Irvin Exhibition Evan Parker – Saxophone (U.K)
An exhibition celebrating the 90th birthday of the English Abstract Expressionist painter Albert Irvin (‘A painter who lets the sun shine into the city’) will adorn the walls of the Ballroom at Borris House throughout the festival and at limited opening times until Sunday 11th March. Evan Parker (among Europe’s most innovative and intriguing saxophonists) will play solo improvisations at the opening reception.
Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow
2pm
Calmus Ensemble (GERMANY)
If you heard the Calmus Ensemble on their extensive Music Network tour of Ireland early in 2011 you will want to hear them again. If you missed them then this is an opportunity to hear the superb à capella singing of these five exceptional singers. They perform music by Schutz, Bach, Franke, Monteverdi, Mateo Fletcha the elder (15th century) in beautiful Borris House.
Sponsored by the Goethe Institut
Tickets: €20.00/€15.00 concession
Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow
4.30pm
The AURORA Trio (SPAIN & U.K)
Compositions and Improvisations
The works performed by the duo of Agustí Fernández and Barry Guy at last year’s festival were described by Michael Dervan in the Irish Times as ‘a sequence of numbers that ranged from riotous and manic to the sheerly soulful’. As they are being joined for this year’s festival by the sensational percussionist Ramón López you can expect to be blown away!
Tickets: €20.00/€15.00 concession
Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow
8.30pm
Sunday 4th March
Eddie Lenihan (IRELAND)
Irish Storytelling
If you have no magic in your life, you’re in a sad place – so says leading Irish story-teller Eddie Lenihan who has been at the forefront of story telling and collecting in Ireland for the last twenty years. Sitting around the Borris House fireside, one of Ireland’s most historic (and maybe even haunted!) houses, Eddie will have adults and children alike on the edge of their seats. Not for the faint-hearted!
Tickets: €10.00/€5.00 (children and concession)
Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children): €25.00
Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow
2.30 pm
Marcella Riordan and Roger Marsh Women in Joyce and Beckett
Marcella Riordan, well known for her portrayal of Molly Bloom on the award winning Naxos audio book of Joyce's Ulysses, performs passages from Molly's soliloquy, from the Anna Livia chapter of Finnegans Wake, and from Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days.
The programme is introduced by Roger Marsh, Professor of Music at York University.
Tickets: €20.00/€15.00 (concession)
Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow
4.30pm
Calmus Ensemble and Camerata Kilkenny
Ich Habe Genug is among Bach’s best loved cantatas. Originally for bass solo and oboe obligato, in this performance we will hear Bach’s own arrangement of the work for soprano, flute obligato and strings. Cantata 150 is considered to be one of the earliest of Bach’s cantatas to survive. Leading international early music ensemble Camerata Kilkenny is joined by the German soprano Anja Lipfert and her colleagues from the Calmus Ensemble for the grand finale of the second Barrow River Arts Festival. The programme also includes one of Biber's great Mystery Sonatas for violin and basso continuo with violinist Maya Homburger and Rachel Beckett as baroque flute soloist in Bach's sparkling B minor Orchestral Suite (with its famous Badinerie movement).
Tickets: €20.00/€15.00 (concession)
Sponsored by the Swiss Embassy
Borris House, Borris, Co. Carlow
7pm