Lunchtimes never sounded so good
By Pat O’Kelly

Irish Independent
Aug 06, 2005

OVER the coming weeks the National Concert Hall presents Summer Sounds
at Lunchtime – a series of events in a variety of styles stemming
from classical, jazz and traditional roots.

Yesterday found the Hall’s organ custodian Peter Sweeney in the
company of trumpeter Eamonn Nolan for a programme of originals and
arrangements.

The latter had HA Fricker’s organ version of the Sibelius tone
poem ‘Finlandia’ seeming to growl and grind more than well-known
orchestral score but an account of the tenor aria from Bach’s ‘Wachet
auf Cantata’, in a trumpet/organ adaptation had Eamonn Nolan producing
velvety mellow tone.

In four marches by Telemann and the majestic ‘Prayer of St Gregory’
by Armenian/American Alan Hovhaness, Mr Nolan was resonantly bright
with accurate pitch against the occasional hesitancy of Peter Sweeney’s
accompaniment.

However, performing on his own Mr Sweeney excelled in the swirl of
Marcel Dupr’s ‘Op 7 Prelude and Fugue’ and encompassed the Finale
from Widor’s ‘6th Organ Symphony’ with the wild abandon necessary to
further its cause.

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