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John Toal presents highlights from the 22nd West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

We begin in the rich acoustic of St. Brendan's Church, situated on the main square in the centre of Bantry, for a performance of Haydn's Quartet in F major, Op.50 No.5, known as The Dream. Its nickname stems from the lulling effect of the Poco adagio, which is filled with undulating chords below a rhapsodic violin line.

We then move to the opulence and grandeur of the Library in Bantry House for Debussy's Violin Sonata in G minor: a work which he began to sketch in 1916 and completed it the following year. It is his final composition.

And finally a performance of Mozart's Serenade in E flat for wind octet, K.375, performed by an international line-up. It is the earliest of Mozart's three great wind serenades, and the most modest in scale.

Haydn: Quartet in F major, Op.50 No.5, The Dream
Quatuor Za茂de - Charlotte Juillard & Leslie Boulin-Raulet (violins), Sarah Chenaf (viola), Juliette Salmona (cello)

Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
Viviane Hagner (violin), Huw Watkins (piano)

Mozart: Serenade in E flat for wind octet, K.375
Olivier Doise & Armel Descottes (oboes), Christopher Sundqvist & Mathias Kj酶ller (clarinets), Herv茅 Joulain & Susanne Schmid (horns), Peter Whelan & Amy Harman (bassoons).