Liverpool Quartet
Roisín Walters violin
Sarah Hill violin
Dani Sanxis viola
Nick Byrne cello

Programme

Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires [1970]
Deirdre Gribbin Merrow Sang [2007]
Zemlinsky Quartet No.1 in A major Op.4 [1896]

Róisín Walters’ Liverpool Quartet brings an exciting and varied programme including their own arrangement of the impassioned tangos of Piazzolla’s extraordinary Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. Still relatively unknown, Zemlinsky pursued a parallel compositional path to Schoenberg and this beautiful early masterpiece is very much in the genre of Brahmsian late romanticism. Deirdre Gribbin’s magical and mysterious Merrow Sang from 2007 vividly recounts a tale of merrow-maidens emerging from the sea during the burial of one the Cantillon family of Ballyheigue.

Presented by NCH in association with the National String Quartet Foundation