Music for Galway’s next concert, featuring the virtuosic Fidelio Trio from the UK, will take place in the ballroom of the city’s Hardiman Hotel on Monday, February 17, at 7.30pm. It follows the success of last month’s Midwinter Festival which celebrated the music of Maurice Ravel.

The trio – Darragh Morgan on violin, Tim Gill on cello and Mary Dullea on piano – return to Galway to perform pillars of the piano trio repertoire.

Masterpieces by Beethoven and Schubert will open and close the event, which will also feature Edward Steuermann’s transcription of Schoenberg’s sensuous late Romantic string sextet, Transfigured Night, for piano trio.  This was inspired by a poem written in 1896 by Richard Dehmel, in which a woman confesses to her lover that she is pregnant by another man. His response is that this won’t be a problem because their love will transform the ‘alien’ child into theirs.

Beethoven’s Ghost Trio will open the evening, offering a roller coaster of emotions from stridence through doubt to loneliness, despair, and to exuberance. The sumptuous sounds of Schubert’s Piano Trio Op. 100 – its Andante was used Stanley Kubrick in the film Barry Lyndon –  will form the second half of the concert.

The Fidelio Trio, who were shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WQXR, and were featured on a Sky Arts documentary. They perform widely in the UK and worldwide.

Tickets for their concert range from €10 to €20, available online at www.musicforgalway.ie or by phone 091 705962.

Pictured: The Fidelio Trio.