Mozart by Moonlight
March 2012
Joana Carneiro Director
Elaine Agnew Twilight
Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201 (186a)
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) Op.4
Noted for her vibrant performances in a wide diversity of musical styles, Joana Carneiro is one of the most outstanding young conductors of today. In her debut performance with the ICO, Carneiropresents Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, one of the composer’s most famous early works, written at just 18 years of age. It is tentative and graceful, capturing the fire and beauty of Mozart’s spirit. The expressive range and technical sophistication places this symphony in a class of its own.
Two nocturnal works from the 19th and 21st centuries feature. Twilight by Elaine Agnew, commissioned by the Irish Chamber Orchestra, is an atmospheric work which explores the orchestra’s rich string sonority, evoking a time of meditation, unassuming and still, in the quiet time and after sunset. Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night is a late-Romantic work that delivers a passionate message against a gleaming moonlit landscape. Regarded as his earliest instrumental masterpiece, this epic continues to surprise and seduce audiences with its sensuousness and air of moonlit mystery.
Booking: 061 331549 or www.uch.ie
Tickets: €20/ Conc €18/ Student €10
Concert Dates
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20:00, Thursday, March 29, 2012
University Concert Hall, Limerick
