Enjoy a concert of early music, given in the atmospheric setting of St Mary’s Church of Ireland (at the main gates to the south campus).
Recorder-player Theresa Burton and harpsichordist Rachel Factor come to Maynooth to present a beautiful programme of baroque masterpieces, performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach alongside music by French composers Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Pierre Danican Philidor and Jacques-Martin Hotteterre.
Programme
Pierre Danican Philidor (1681-1731): Suite No. 5 in E minor
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673-1763): Prelude in D minor (from 'L'Art du Preluder’)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Sonata in F major, BWV 1031; French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755): Premiere Suite de pièces in E minor, Op. 35