I will be performing a recital alongside organist David O’Shea at St Michael’s Church, Dunlaoghaire as part of the Dunlaoghaire Organ Concerts series on Sunday 7th of July at 8pm.
This series has been ongoing weekly for the summer months since the organ was built in 1974 featuring organists and soloists from Ireland and all over the world.
The organ itself is a 26 stop, 2 manual and pedal instrument that, at the time of its construction, it was the first all-mechanical action organ to be built in Ireland for almost 100 years, and the first new organ to be based on neo-baroque aesthetic principles of design and construction. It was constructed by the Austrian firm Rieger Orgelbau.
The Rieger Organ at St Michael’s Church, Dunlaoghaire
David and I will be performing a recital of Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn – just one of the 12 concerts on offer this summer.
Tickets are available on the door (full programme below).
See here for more information on the Dunlaoghaire Organ Concerts.
Programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
From St Matthew Passion, BWV 244:
Aria: Blute nur, du liebes Herz
Recitative: Wiewohl mein Herz in Tränen schwimmt
Aria: Ich will dir mein Herze schenken
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Adagio in C for Glass Harmonica, K. 356
Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Exsultate, jubilate
Recitative: Fulget amica dies
Tu virginum corona
Alleluja
Felix Mendelssohn (1808 – 1847)
Sonata in A major, op. 65 no. 3
Con moto maestoso
Andante tranquillo
Hear ye, Israel! (from Elijah)
Daire Halpin - Soprano 