Filmed live from the sculpture hall in the Hugh Lane Gallery on January 15th 2023.

Sundays at Noon concert series with the Spotlight Chamber Music Series present duo partners Katherine Hunka and Sophia Rahman. Their recital will consist of Romantic works by Germanic composers Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann, late nineteenth-century soaring and lyrical Romance by American composer Amy Beach, and a short movement, A Virtue, from Cork native Sam Perkin’s 9 Snapshots for Violin and Piano. This work was commissioned in 2012 by Ruxandra Petcu-Colan and Gabriela Mayer with funds from Cork City Council Arts Office. Sam writes that “each snapshot in this suite of intimate miniatures for Violin and Piano captures a cherished moment of friendship spent with friend and violinist Eoin Ducrot, student of Ruxandra Petcu-Colan”.

Programme

Brahms: Scherzo in C minor (from The F-A-E Sonata)

Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22

Sam Perkin: A Virtue from 9 Snapshots for Violin and Piano

Schumann: Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105

Amy Beach: Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23

Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 2

(transcribed by Joseph Joachim)

With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for their continued support.