Chamber Music Series: Pirosmani Quartet: Tenderness and Turmoil

Schumann String Quartet in F major Op.41 No.2 [1842] Jane O’Leary new work [2026] † Schubert String Quartet in G major D.887 [2026] † First performances Acclaimed Cork violinist Mairéad Hickey brings together colleagues from Brazil, Ukraine and the USA for a third tour by the Pirosmani Quartet They open with the second of the three vividly expressive string quartets that Schumann wrote in a frenzy of creativity in the early summer of 1842. The previous September, his wife Clara - apart from Liszt, the most famous pianist of their time - had given birth to their first child, and perhaps that is