RECORDINGS
Listen to Fiachra’s For The Piano album and debut recordings from the Wigmore Hall including performances of Schumann, Debussy, Barber, Ravel, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky and more.
Lekeu, Ysaÿe, Ravel & Boulanger
Patrick Rafter Violin
Fiachra Garvey Piano
Two Irish musicians bring to you their first album with Rubicon Classics. violinist Patrick Rafter and pianist Fiachra Garvey have selected repertoire by Belgian and French composers, including two great violin sonatas – Ravel’s famous violin Sonata in G, and the fabulous yet mostly neglected sonata in G by Guillaume Lekeu, whose tragically early death at the age of 24 surely robbed us of a great composer.
The great Belgian violinist and composer Ysaye’s seldom heard Poeme Elegiaque and Lili Boulanger’s (who died at only 22 years) Nocturne complete this attractive programme.
Patrick has performed alongside Maxim Vengerov and Schlomo Mintz, Barry Douglas and John O’Conor, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Mark Elder, Marin Alsop and Gianandrea Noseda.
Summer Proms July 2024
National Youth Orchestra of Ireland
Ruth Reinhardt Conductor
Fiachra Garvey Piano
On his debut CD Fiachra performs Samuel Barber’s 1949 Piano Sonato, Debussy Pour le Piano, along with Schumann’s Fantasiestucke Op 12 – brings a deeps and infectious enthusiasm ( Sunday Times)
Celebrating a stunning debut at Wigmore Hall – “fire as well as poetry”… “a first rate performance”
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
With RTÉ Concert Orchestra and conductor John Wilson from 2011
3rd mov from Tchaikovsky piano concerto no 1
With RTÉ Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell
