Darragh Morgan & Mary Dullea
Sunday 20th October, 6.30pm at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, Camden, London, WC1R 4RL
Programme
Arvo Pärt – Fratres
Deirdre McKay – a quarter million miles from the moon
Hannah Kendall – A Winged Spirit
Evis Sammoutis – Monogenesis
Chick Corea – Children’s Songs: nos. 7, 16, 19 & 18
Cesar Franck – Violin Sonata in A major
Performers
Darragh Morgan – violin
Mary Dullea – piano
For this special concert, as part of Bloomsbury Festival, Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea explore themes of ‘human’ qualities and ‘kindness’ in their programme.
Musical art is a force that inspires and connects humankind, evoking our desire to create artistic expression. Plato said music gives soul to the universe.
Reflecting on ‘human’ qualities and ‘kindness’, Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) have created a programme that teases out the fantastical and the familial. The title of Arvo Pärt’s Fratres translates as ‘brothers’. César Franck’s Violin and Piano Sonata is one of the giants of the repertoire and was composed as a wedding gift for the ‘King of the Violin’, Eugène Ysäye. It is a work with an inventive structure and cyclic form, themes reappearing in later movements, and a central Recitativo-Fantasia movement. ‘Human Kind’ in terms of our relation to the universe and coming into being is explored in Deirdre McKay’s a quarter million miles from the moon and Evis Sammoutis’s Monogenesis. Hannah Kendall’s A Winged Spirit and a set of Chick Corea’s inimitable Children’s Songs complete this journey.