Luminosa Music presents Éirí – II -Athrú for a candlelit concert. This is Galway’s own string orchestra.

Prepare to be delighted and charmed with this beautiful programme of music inspired by the personal transformations we have all undergone. After journeying through covid times, through tragic times of loss and transfiguration, the music we have selected reflects on transformation both internally within pieces of music and on a greater scale, between teachers and students, between a composer’s young self and the ultimate realisation of himself; and between centuries during which many pandemics, wars, political upheavals and challenges abounded.

In a stunning candlelit church, they begin with John Dowland’s Lachrimae Verae (True Tears) the last of the Seven Teares, published in 1604. Then joyfully on to J.S.Bach with the seminal Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major BWV 1048. Fast forward then to Schoenberg in an early work entitled Nocturne for Harp and strings. Followed with a exploration of the work of Vaughan Williams and his Irish student Ina Boyle – with her recently posthumously published work Psalm for Cello and Strings – (with thanks to the Ina Boyle Society and Boyle Family) – and her teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams and his gloriously lush pastoral Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.

On the day they will be joined by Harpist Clara Booth
Keyboard continuo by Ray O’Donnell
The Luminosa String Orchestra is Led by Paul Ezergailis. Our Principal Guest Conductor is Sinead Hayes.