[Events] LEON FLEISHER IN CONCERT AT UNIVERSITY CONCERT HALL THURSDAY 15 APRIL

[Charlotte.Eglington]

The legendary American pianist and conductor, Leon Fleisher performs in Ireland for the first time with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.  His story is so compelling, his manual renaissance so inspiring that this performance should not be missed.

Fleisher is the extraordinary pianist who lost the use of his right hand to a neurological ailment in 1964 at the height of his career. Undaunted, he took up teaching, conducting, and performing the left-hand literature so brilliantly that it was hard to believe he was using only one hand. When he returned to two-handed playing after years of medical treatments and determined, arduous rehabilitation, the public greeted him not only as a great artist but a conquering hero. 

Fleisher conducts, from the podium and directs from the piano, his all-Mozart programme.  Like Fleisher, Mozart was a child prodigy.  His Symphony No. 1 was written when he was just eight years old.   Fleisher’s features an arrangement for two (instead of three) pianos of the "Lodron Concerto" K. 242, which he plays with his wife Katherine Jacobson Fleisher communicating a sense of fun as they perform this lively work together.  Mozart’s rather sombre Adagio and Fugue in C minor was played at Herbert von Karajan’s funeral. The music demonstrates how the baroque and the rococo co-existed in classical Vienna. This brings us to the last, but crowning creation of Mozart's symphonic domain, the Symphony in C major (K.551), the Jupiter Symphony.   This great work by contrast was written at a not so great time in Mozart’s personal life. He was broke and had just lost his new-born daughter.  Despite this, the Jupiter Symphony is regarded his greatest and most scholarly symphony, a masterpiece, a summing up of all that happened in symphonic music before it.

Catch Leon Fleisher, the magic with Mozart and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. in Cork, Limerick and Dublin on 14, 15 and 17 April.  

See www.irishchamberorchestra.com <http://www.irishchamberorchestra.com/>  

These concerts are supported by Continental Airlines, flying non-stop to New York.


 


 

 

APRIL 

 

Irish Chamber Orchestra

Leon Fleisher piano

Katherine Jacobsen Fleisher

Mozart Symphony Nr. 1, KV 16, E-flat major
Mozart Piano concerto for two Pianos K. 242 Double Concerto
Mozart Adagio & Fugue
Mozart Symphony No. 4 KV 551, C-major (Jupiter)

City Hall Cork  Wed 14 April

University Concert Hall Limerick Thurs 15 April 

RDS Concert Hall Dublin Sat 17 April

 €35 + €25 (& conc.) (€30 + €20 for members of the RDS, 

Cork Orchestral Society/ICO  Friends 

Limerick/Cork:   061 331549/314314  www.uch.ie Dublin:  0818 719 300 www.ticketmaster.ie

 


Charlotte Eglington, 


ICO Press Office


Irish Chamber Orchestra


T: 061-202583  M: 086 8092781 F: 061-202 6217  E: charlotte.eglington at ul.ie <mailto:charlotte.eglington at ul.ie> 




 

 

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