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West Cork Chamber Music Festival 3/4

Sean Rafferty's penultimate visit to the West Cork Chamber Music Festival this week begins with the arrangement Bartok's friend, the Hungarian violinist Zolt谩n Sz茅kely, made of his Six Romanian Dances - there are actually seven in all as the last movement contains two dances! These are followed by Bartok's Third String Quartet - the shortest and most concentrated of his six quartets. Kodaly's Dances of Marossz茅k are best known in their orchestral form of 1930 but were originally written for the piano in 1927. Marossz茅k is the name of a district in Transylvania.
Today's programme closes with Szymanowski's First String Quartet. Szymanowski had a passion for the exotic and the other-worldly slow introduction immediately announces that this is not an ordinary quartet - there is a certain sense of ecstasy and longing.

Bart贸k (arr. Sz茅kely): Six Romanian Dances Sz.56
Catherine Leonard (violin), Ji Hye Jung (percussion)

Bart贸k: String Quartet No.3 Sz.85
Signum Quartet

Kodaly: Dances of Marossz茅k
Ewa Kupiec (piano)

Szymanowski: String Quartet No.1 in C major Op.37
Apollon Musagete Quartet.