Leon Fleisher has the most famous right hand in classical music - famous because for 30 years of his life it didn’t work! Hailed as “the pianistic find of the century” in this teens, he enjoyed a fifteen year period of worldwide acclaim in the 1950s and 60s, before a neurological disease lost him the use of his right hand.
Irish Chamber Orchestra ~ Leon Fleisher, director/piano ~ Katherine Jacobson Fleisher, piano (more…)
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is joined by two stunning soloists for an evening of dramatic, beautiful music, ending with a bang!
Limerick born Mairead Buicke, one of Ireland’s top young sopranos, is the soloist in Barber’s Knoxville, singing of that lazy summer of 1915, the swing on the back-porch, the streetcar rattling by…..
Then expect fireworks from Tchaikovsky! The wonderful Scottish violin star Nicola Benedetti makes a welcome return to Limerick, joining the RTÉ NSO for the red-blooded romantic virtuosity of his Violin Concerto. To finish, the orchestra takes centre stage for the famous and irresistible 1812 Overture. (more…)
Anthony Marwood directs a programme that ranges fro the court of Louis XIV where Lully wrote his Ballet suite to one of Mozart’s timeless violin concerti and Schubert’s exquisite fifth symphony.
Irish Chamber Orchestra ~ Anthony Marwood, director/violin (more…)
ICO leader Katherine Hunka teams up with popular accordian virtuoso Dermot Dunne for a programme that ranges from baroque master Vivaldi to the tangos of Piazzolla.
Irish Chamber Orchestra ~ Katherine Hunka, director/violin ~ Dermot Dunne, accordian (more…)
Leon Fleisher has the most famous right hand in classical music - famous because for 30 years of his life it didn’t work! Hailed as “the pianistic find of the century” in this teens, he enjoyed a fifteen year period of worldwide acclaim in the 1950s and 60s, before a neurological disease lost him the use of his right hand.
