Seasons is the title of the 20th annual Mid-Winter Music Festival that will take place from Friday, January 20, to Saturday, January 22, in Galway City.

The event will explore not only winter but all the four seasons.

And one composer who is synonymous with that theme is Antonio Vivaldi whose hugely popular classic Four Seasons will be the opening event of the weekend. The Town Hall Theatre is the venue as the vibrant Irish Chamber Orchestra and soloist/director Katherine Hunka, will pair the renowned Italian’s work with its Argentinian counterpart, written by Piazzolla.

For Saturday and Sunday’s concerts, the venue will be the Ballroom of the Hardiman Hotel.

These will kick off at 6pm on Saturday when English pianist Freddy Kempf will juxtapose Tchaikovsky’s Seasons with Chopin’s Grande Polonaise Brillante.

The final events of the festival are two song recitals which will bring audiences on two very different journeys.

On Saturday, January 21, at 9pm, Schubert’s deeply moving and intensely beautiful Winterreise will be sung by German baritone Jochen Kupfer with Finghin Collins on piano.

Then, on Sunday at 3pm there will be a journey of redemption, promise and joy, with songs from Spring, Autumn and Summer, brought to life by Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten, a firm favourite with Galway audiences. She will be singing work by Schubert, Berlioz, Strauss, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Brahms and others, with Finghin Collins on piano.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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