John Toal presents highlights from the 23rd West Cork Chamber Music Festival featuring music by Brahms, Maconchy and Beethoven.
John Toal rounds off our highlights from the 23rd West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Featuring music by Brahms, Elizabeth Maconchy and Beethoven, recorded in the rich acoustic of St. Brendan's Church, situated on the main square in the centre of Bantry town.
Pianist Barry Douglas opens the programme with a performance of Brahms’ Three Intermezzos, Op.117 and is joined by an international line-up of musicians to close it with Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E Flat Major, Op.16. They bookend Elizabeth Maconchy’s String Quartet No.2, performed by the French string quartet Quatuor Danel, composed in 1936.
Brahms: Three Intermezzos, Op.117
Barry Douglas (piano)
Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet No.2
Quatuor Danel
Beethoven: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat Major, Op.16
Ramón Ortego Quero (oboe), Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet), Ron Schaaper (horn), Bram van Sambeek (bassoon), Barry Douglas (piano)
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Johannes Brahms
3 Intermezzi, Op.117
Performer: Barry Douglas. -
Elizabeth Maconchy
String Quartet No.2
Ensemble: Quatuor Danel. -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Quintet for piano and wind in E flat Major, Op.16
Performer: Ramón Ortega Quero. Performer: Annelien Van Wauwe. Performer: Ron Schaaper. Performer: Bram van Sambeek. Performer: Barry Douglas.
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- Fri 19 Oct 2018 13:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3