Vanbrugh & Friends
Sat, Mar 28
|The Parade Tower
Keith Pascoe - violin Marja Gaynor - violin Simon Aspell - viola Ed Creedon - viola Christopher Marwood - cello
TIME & LOCATION
Mar 28, 2026, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
The Parade Tower, Kilkenny Castle, The Parade, Kilkenny, R95 YRK1
PROGRAMME & PERFORMERS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet No. 6 in Eb
Major, K. 614
Johannes Brahms String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, op. 88
Felix Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Major, op. 87
Mozart always brings charm, elegance and wit, however
harsh his circumstances, and nowhere more so than in his
gorgeous E flat major string quintet, written in the last year of
his short life along with the Magic Flute, the clarinet concerto
and the Requiem.
Brahms wrote his F major quintet ‘in the spring of 1882’ and
the resulting nickname of ‘Spring’ Quintet is perfect for this
extraordinarily uplifting, fresh and joyful music.
The irrepressibly virtuosic outer movements of Mendelssohn’s
B flat quintet offer great contrast to an elegantly playful
scherzo and perhaps the highlight of the work, the anguished
and yet profoundly beautiful Funeral March.
