Echoes and Inspirations: The Fews Ensemble at Carlingford Heritage Centre

Ensemble in Residence 2026 — Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland

As Ensemble in Residence at Carlingford Heritage Centre, The Fews Ensemble presents Echoes and Inspirations — a four concert journey through music that draws on memory, faith, and imagination.

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Miniatures

Welcome to our Season 26/27 Opening Concert. Newry Chamber Music and the Fews Ensemble warmly invite you to Our NCM Hub at the Quays, Newry for a concert of exquisite Single Movement Strings Quartets interspersed with beautiful readings and poetry. We are delighted to welcome back Soprano Mary McCabe fresh from her appearance at NI Opera's critically acclaimed production of Bizet's Carmen and BBC NI Broadcaster and Newry native John Toal who will provide the narration for the evening.

Mia Cooper/Joanne Quigley McParland: Violin

Paul Cassidy: Viola

Jonathan Aasgaard: Cello

Mary McCabe: Soprano

John Toal: Narrator

Programme

Jesse Montgomery: Strum
Ernest Hemingway Extract from Death in the Afternoon
Joaquin Turina: La Oracion del Torero
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Sunset
Ottorino Respighi: Il Tramunto
Roisin Kelly Oranges
Caroline Shaw: Valencia

INTERVAL

Emily Dickinson: By The Sea
Osvaldo Golijov: How Slow the Wind
Rainer Maria Rilke The Sonnets to Orpheus (Book II, No. 29)
Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz
Anton Chekhov:Letter to A. S. Suvorin
Tchaikovsky: Andante from String Quartet No 1
Daniel Kemper: The Tango Argentine
Astor Piazzolla: Four for Tango

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