Ireland's longest running quartet will perform at a Tipperary arts festival

The popular ConTempo will perform at the Clonmel Junction Arts Festival

Ireland’s longest running quartet will entertain a Clonmel audience with a dazzling selection of works from Mozart, Beethoven and a world premiere of Marian Ingoldsby’s String Quartet No.2.

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Mozart’s D minor quartet K.421 is the second in the set of six quartets that Mozart dedicated to Haydn, famously describing them as his children and as ‘the fruit of long and laborious efforts’.
It is the only one of the set in a minor key and the prevailing mood of intense darkness sets in memorable relief those precious moments where the music moves into a major key and the clouds lift.

Marian Ingoldsby’s world premiere of her String Quartet No.2 written in memory of artist Eimear King, whose work will be projected during the performance.

Beethoven wrote his set of three Rasoumovsky Quartets in 1806, commissioned by the Russian Ambassador in Vienna, Count Andrey Rasoumovsky.

The famously edgy and brittle first movement gives way to one of Beethoven’s most gorgeous creations, the slow second movement which he marked ‘to be played with deep feeling’.

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The intricate Scherzo is followed by a wild and spectacularly virtuosic finale…