Ledenconcert Aisling Casey
This evening’s event will be an open rehearsal and play through of the programme we are preparing for a concert in Hilversum later in the week. This programme places the Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy at the heart of twentieth-century British and Irish music. Born to Irish parents and shaped within the British musical establishment, she developed a voice of striking originality: concentrated, powerful, and uncompromising in its expressive force. Her music belongs alongside that of the most significant composers of her generation, even if her name has too often been less prominently remembered.
Maconchy studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose example formed part of the musical world she inherited, even as her own language became more taut, dramatic and individual. In 1933 her Oboe Quintet won the 1st Prize in the Daily Telegraph Composition Competition, a competition Benjamin Britten also participated in with his Phantasy Oboe Quartet. Yet is was Britten who went on to become a central public figure in British music, and internationally well known, while Maconchy’s achievements were more often overlooked. This programme offers a chance to hear her story differently.
Aisling Casey - oboe
Nadia Wijzenbeek & Julia Kleinsmann - violin
Lotte de Vries - viola
Michael Müller - cello
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