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First tour ✅

Thank you so much to everyone who came to support us! And @nsqf_ireland for making this happen! 🎻✨

📍Castletownshend
📍Kenmare
📍Triskel Church Cork
📍Doneraile Court by @melioraquartet

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OFF WE GO!!! See you all at the first stop of our summer tour: St. Barrahane’s Church, Castletownshend 🥳🥳🥳

📸: @aodhomuiri by @melioraquartet

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The Meliora Quartet ahead of their NSQF Young Artists summer tour this week. Catch them from Thursday in Castletownshend, Kenmare, Cork or Doneraile Court. Thanks to Hugh Murray for a stunning new photo! See NSQF.ie by @melioraquartet

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See NSQF.ie! taken in Cork, Ireland by @melioraquartet

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See NSQF.ie! taken in Castletownshend by @melioraquartet

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The Meliora Quartet sounding great in St Brendan’s Church, Bantry a couple of weeks ago! Catch them at one of their summer tour concerts in August! See NSQF.ie by @melioraquartet

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MELIORA QUARTET
Cillian Ó Cathasaigh, violin
Seán Hurley, violin
Kseniia Yershova, viola
Alina Obreja, cello

Haydn - String Quartet Op.76 No.4 Sunrise [1797]
Webern: Langsamer Satz [1905]
Caroline Shaw - Blueprint [2016]
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet in B flat major Op.130 [1826]

The outstanding Meliora Quartet took part in the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in June/July and will also be the NSQF Fellowship Quartet at the Concorda Chamber Music Course in July/August, working with the course participants as well as preparing for this tour.

The Sunrise is perhaps the most popular of all Haydn’s wonderful string quartets. Each of its four movements is vividly characterised - the first evoking the rising of the sun, the second prayerful, the third presenting a wild dance and the finale creating imaginative variations around a simple folksong-like theme and building to a virtuosic conclusion.

Webern’s ‘Langsamer Satz’ (slow piece) is a beautiful and passionate love song to his future wife, written in the rich late Romantic soundworld of his teacher Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht.

Pulitzer prize winning composer Caroline Shaw took Beethoven’s quartet Op.18 No.6, as the blueprint of her 2016 quartet of that name and its transformation is both fascinating and entertaining.

The magnificent, epic, opening movement of Beethoven’s B flat major quartet Op.130 is followed by four beautifully crafted and highly contrasted inner movements, culminating in the famous Cavatina of which Beethoven wrote that he had composed it truly in the tears of melancholy. It leads into the quartet’s concluding finale, a good-natured antidote which Beethoven wrote, at his publisher’s request, as an alternative to the quartet’s original last movement, the massive Grosse Fuge.

CASTLETOWNSHEND - Thursday 6th August at 8pm - St Barrahane’s Church - presented by Barrahane Music
KENMARE - Friday 7th August at 6pm - Carnegie Arts Centre
CORK - Saturday 8th August at 1pm - Triskel Arts Centre (Shaw, Webern, Beethoven)
DONERAILE - Sunday 9th August at 3pm - Doneraile Court - presented by OPW by @melioraquartet

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🚨LISTEN UP YALL🚨 We are SO EXCITED to perform as part of the Young Musicians Series @westcorkmusic tomorrow, 2nd July at 2pm in BEAUTIFUL, BELOVED BANTRY! Come along to hear love stories from Borodin & Mendelssohn, as well as @aidanmctaylor scintillating String Quartet No. 2! Bígí linn by @melioraquartet

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Tickets in bio!!
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I got a parking ticket for this #quartet taken in St.Catherine's Cultural Centre Kinsale by @melioraquartet

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Two brilliant young string quartets come to Kinsale on Friday 19th June at 8pm. See NSQF.ie!

These two outstanding groups are both heading for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival at the end of June. The Meliora will go on to present NSQF.ie’s summer tour in August and the Olympia Quartet, recently featured on the Tommy Tiernan show, have played concerts to great acclaim around Cork, Kerry and Dublin.

They return for their second appearance at St. Catherine’s with Mendelssohn’s gorgeous E flat major quartet, Borodin’s famous Nocturne and Janáček’s spectacular ‘Intimate Letters’. The quartets will come together to end the evening with the glorious first movement of Mendelssohn’s Octet. taken in Kinsale, Ireland by @melioraquartet

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We are so excited to be performing in @sccckinsale next Friday the 19th 🥳
We’ll be performing Janáček’s Intimate Letters, as well as the wonderful first movement of Mendelssohn’s Octet, with our friends in @melioraquartet ! 🌟
Tickets in our bio 👯‍♀️👯‍♂️ taken in St.Catherine's Cultural Centre Kinsale by @melioraquartet

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Join us at UCC’s Aula Maxima this Saturday 13th June for a night of musical treats and help mark 40 years since the Vanbrugh Quartet landed in Cork in 1986! See NSQF.ie. Thanks to West Cork photographer Aldo Belmonte for this priceless photo! by @melioraquartet

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