Music for Galway present in association with the National String Quartet Foundation

Róisín Walters violin
Sarah Hill violin
Dani Sanxis viola
Nick Byrne cello

ZEMLINSKY String Quartet No.1
DEIRDRE GRIBBIN Merrow Sang
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No 3

Róisín Walters’ Liverpool Quartet brings an exciting and varied programme to Galway. Zemlinsky’s beautiful early masterpiece is very much in the genre of Brahmsian late romanticism. Shostakovich’s third quartet is a heart-breaking musical commentary on the futility and pain of war. Deirdre Gribbin’s magical and mysterious “Merrow Sang” from 2007 vividly recounts a tale of merrow-maidens emerging from the sea during the burial of one the Cantillon family of Ballyheigue.