French Reverie

Join the Irish Chamber Orchestra for an evening that moves from stillness to splendour - a journey shaped by elegance, reflection, and quiet emotional power.

Ravel’s Pavane pour une Infante Défunte opens the night with its gentle, aching nostalgia, before giving way to the soft glow of Debussy’s La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin. Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1 brings a moment of calm - music that seems to breathe - before Massenet’s Méditation rises in a wash of heartfelt intensity. Katherine Hunka’s own elegy follows, intimate and deeply felt.


And then, Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major, heard here in a radiant orchestral arrangement, gathers colour, momentum and light - building toward a finale that feels vivid, alive, and full of joy.

From stillness to splendour, this concert will stir your heart.