'Transfigurations' - Orchestral Masterworks

Esker Festival Orchestra
​​​​​​​Peter Joyce, Conductor

Richard Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite 1919
Peter Joyce - ‘Purgatory’ Tone Poem for Orchestra after the play by W.B. Yeats
Richard Strauss - Death and Transfiguration

The Esker Festival Orchestra, now in its 12th year, is Ireland’s most exciting and established peer-led orchestra, made up of Irish and international young professionals and advanced students all over the age of 18.  Following our highly successful debut NCH performance of Holst’s Planets last August we are delighted to return again this August to perform a programme of Orchestral masterworks all based on the theme of Transfiguration.  This performance will feature beloved works by Wagner, Stravinsky and Richard Strauss as well as the world premiere of a new composition by prize-winning composer, conductor and Esker Festival Founder Peter Joyce

Presented by the Esker Festival Orchestra