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2008 Festival Fringe
A programme of four regional concerts to bring world-class organ virtuosi to local audiences around the country, and to highlight fine heritage instruments and the buildings housing them.
Pipeworks in Kilkenny
Saturday 21 June, 8pm,
St Canice’s Cathedral
Pipeworks joins in the festivities surrounding the opening of the newly rebuilt Bevington organ in Kilkenny’s stunning medieval cathedral. An afternoon programme of events, including a talk by Prof. Gerard Gillen and Evensong sung by the cathedral choir, concludes with a recital by celebrated American virtuoso and Pipeworks jury member David Higgs. A celebratory tone is set by works ranging from the profound to the profane: Bach, Kittel, Pärt, Bolcom, Conte, Lefebure-Wely, Karg-Elert and concluding with Liszt’s dazzling Prelude and Fugue on BACH. Special travel arrangements by rail are available for Pipeworks friends and sponsors.
In association with Music in Kilkenny.
Tickets: €20 / €15 (concession)
To book your ticket, please phone 056 776 1497.
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Pipeworks juror Daniel Roth, organist of the famous Parisian church of St Sulpice, presents French symphonic masterworks on the superb Father Willis organ in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk. |
This recital concludes a day of events in Dundalk featuring this magnificent instrument. Special travel arrangements by rail are available for Pipeworks friends and sponsors.
Tickets: €15 / €10 (concession)
Book your tickets through the Central Ticket Bureau's website on www.ctb.ie or phone 0818 205 205.
Hans Fagius plays the 1858 Telford organ as part of the centenary
celebrations of this unique instrument by Ireland’s leading 19th century
organ builder.
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1838): Benjamin Staern (born 1978): |
 Organ in Wexford's Church of the Immaculate Conception |
Felix Mendelssohn:
Allegro, Choral and Fugue D minor/D major (1844)
Andante with variations D major (1844)
No. 1 in C minor
No. 2 in G major
No. 3 in D minor
Otto Olsson (1879-1964):
Sonata E Major op. 38 (1910/11)
Allegro moderato
Meditation – Fugue. Andante lento
Finale. Allegro con brio
Pipeworks in Galway
Sunday, 29 June, 8 pm,
Galway Cathedral
Daniel Roth gives the first concert in Galway Cathedral's annual summer
series, on the Cathedral's magnificent recently-rebuilt Trevor Crowe organ.
Daniel Roth, organ
Programme:
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785 - 1858)
Fantasy & fugue in B flat major
Quartet in G minor
Allegro in F minor
César Franck (1822 - 1890)
Symphony in D minor, transcribed for the organ
- ii. Allegretto
Charles Marie Widor (1844 - 1937)
Symphony no. 6 in G minor, op. 42 no. 2
- iii. Intermezzo
Charles Tournemire (1870 - 1939)
Fresque symphonique sacrée, op. 76
Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
Diexième fantaisie
Daniel Roth (b. 1942)
Fantaisie fuguée sur Regina Cæli
Rolande Falcinelli (1920 - 2006)
Esquisses symphoniques, op. 45
- vii. Allegro giocoso
- x. Allegro ritmico
Improvisation
In association with Galway Cathedral Recitals.
For further information please see the Galway Cathedral website: www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals
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