- Date & Time
- Friday 22nd May 2026, 8pm
- Venue
- Russborough House
- Ticket Info
- Tickets €42 / €21 Student (+ booking fee)
- Artists
- Marmen Quartet string quartet
Fiachra Garvey piano - Programme
- J. Haydn String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 No. 2 “The Joke”
C. Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Interval
C. Franck Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14
This programme performed by the Marmen Quartet brings together three landmark chamber works spanning more than a century of musical innovation. Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat major, affectionately known as ‘The Joke’, opens the concert with elegance and humour, its famous teasing pauses and unexpected ending a masterclass in musical wit.
Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, his only work in the genre, follows. Its luminous textures, bold harmonies and cyclical form signal a decisive break from tradition and established Debussy as a leading voice of modernism.
After the interval, Fiachra Garvey joins the quartet for Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor, providing an impassioned conclusion to the programme. Intensely expressive and richly textured, the work was considered shockingly emotional at its premiere and remains a compelling and dramatic centrepiece of the chamber music repertoire.
“The Marmens succeeded in wringing every last drop of turbulent yearning and passion”Bachtrack
