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CHAmber Music
Festival 2016
Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland
Friday 1 – Saturday 9 July
West Cork
CHAmber Music
Festival 2016
Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland
Friday 1 – Saturday 9 July
The Festival marks two of the 1916 centenaries with new works
by Irish composers. Visiting Quartets will be the Borusan from
Istanbul, the Kelemen from Budapest, the multi-national
Chiaroscuro led by Alina Ibragimova alongside Cork’s own
Vanbrugh Quartet.
Image: Nicola Benedetti - (Decca) Simon Fowler
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FRIDAY 1 JULY
The spirit wakes in the night wind – is naked.
What is it that hides in the night wind
Near by it?
Lettres d’un Soldat – Wallace Stevens
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SATURDAY 2 JULY
At break of day the fowler came
And took my blackbirds from their songs
Lament for the Poets – Francis Ledwidge
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SATURDAY 2 JULY 8. CRESPO SERIES – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 16.00
Beethoven Eroica Variations Op.35
5. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 11:30 Schumann Carnaval Op.9
Elm Quartet with Lilli Maijala Prokofiev Toccata Op.11
Free admission class ends 13:00 Tamar Beraia
Admission €18/€13/€9 RECITAL ends 17:00
6. YOUNG COMPOSERS FORUM – ST BRENDAN’S HALL 14:00
Forum directed by Deirdre Gribbin 9. MAIN EVENING CONCERT – BANTRY HOUSE 20.00
Free admission forum ends 16:00 Seán Doherty Lament for the Poets
Caroline Melzer, Vanbrugh Quartet World Premiere
7. BAROQUE MASTERCLASS – THE COURTROOM 15:30 Grieg Quartet in G minor Op.27 Borusan Quartet
Bantry Baroque with Peter Spissky and Torbjörn Köhl
Brahms Clarinet Quintet Annelien von Wauwe, Kelemen Quartet
Free admission class ends 17:00
Admission €47/€37/€27/€13 concert ends 22:00
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SUNDAY 3 JULY
The tumult in the heart
keeps asking questions.
Four Poems – Elizabeth Bishop
12. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 10:00 14. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 11:30
Beara Quartet with Lawrence Power Behn Quartet with Kelemen Quartet
Free admission class ends 11:30 Free admission class ends 13:00
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SUNDAY 3 JULY 18. CRESPO SERIES – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 16.00
Beethoven String Quintet Op.29
15. TOWN CONCERT – ST BRENDAN’S HALL 14.00 Hartmann Quartet No.2
Beethoven String Trio in G major Op.9/1 Kelemen Quartet with Lawrence Power
Linda Buckley Fiol admission €18/€13/€9 concert ends 17:00
Dohnanyi String Trio
Mairéad Hickey, György Kovalev, Ella van Poucke 19. MAIN EVENING CONCERT – BANTRY HOUSE 20.00
Erkin Quartet Borusan Quartet
Image: Annelien van Wauwe Photo: Christian Ruvolo
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MONDAY 4 JULY
Les donneurs de serenades
Et les belles écouteuses
Mandolin – Paul Verlaine
21. MORNING TALKS – THE BRICK OVEN 10:00 26. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 15:30
Evelyn Grant in conversation with Vanbrugh Quartet Hydra Quartet with Kelemen Quartet
ADMISSION €6 TALK ENDS 10:45 FREE admission class ends 17:00
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29. MAIN EVENING CONCERT – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 20.00
Fauré Verlaine Songs Op.58
MONDAY 4 JULY Carolyn Sampson, Cédric Tiberghien
Hartmann Concerto Funebre
Image: Caroline Melzer Photo: Hannes Caspar
27. BAROQUE MASTERCLASS – THE COURTROOM 15:30 Lawrence Power, Festival Strings, leader Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Schubert Death and the Maiden
Image: Nurit Stark Photo: Cordula Tremi
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TUESDAY 5 JULY
He inlaid the sound-hole with ivory swans,
each pair a valentine of entangled necks,
and fitted tuning pegs of apricot
to give a good smell when rubbed
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth – Ruth Padel
The classical string quartet was created by Haydn and his six
Opus 20 quartets, with their complete mastery of technique,
form and expression, became the foundation of the modern
quartet. The Chiaroscuro with their classical tuning and gut
strings are ideal exponents of these quartets.
Schumann’s last Piano Trio wanders in a dream world, the 32. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 10:00
opening movement obsessed with his two magical themes, as Behn Quartet with Borusan Quartet
though forever seeking some unattainable goal. This unearthly FREE admission class ends 11:30
mood attains an indescribable beauty in the slow movement,
the magic occasionally shattered by the unruly forces of 33. COFFEE CONCERT – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 11.00
reality. Fazil Say, as well as being a remarkable pianist, is one Haydn Quartet in C major Op.20/2, Quartet in G minor Op.20/3
of Turkey’s leading living composers. His Divorce Quartet is
Chiaroscuro Quartet
brutally self-explanatory, three short movements, relationship Admission €20/€14/€10 Concert ends 12:00
breakdown in Technicolor.
34. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 11:30
Late night Paul Lewis pays his first visit to Bantry with one
Elm Quartet with Kelemen Quartet
Image: Chiaroscuro Quartet Photo: Sussie Ahlburg
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39. CRESPO SERIES – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 16.00
Mendelssohn String Quintet No.2 in B flat Op.87
Borusan Quartet with Lawrence Power
Weber Clarinet Quintet
Borusan Quartet with Annalien von Wauwe
admission €18/€13/€9 concert ends 17:00
Beara Quartet with Tamsin Waley-Cohen Admission €47/€37/€27/€13 concert ends 22:00
FREE admission class ends 17:00
41. LATE GREAT SHOW – BANTRY HOUSE 22.30
38. BAROQUE MASTERCLASS – THE COURTROOM 15:30 Schubert Sonata in B major D.575
Bantry Baroque with Brahms Intermezzi Op.117
Peter Spissky, Fredrik Bock and Torbjörn Köhl Paul Lewis
FREE admission class ends 17:00 Admission €13 concert ends 23:30
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WEDNESDAY 6 JULY
Fremd bin ich eingezogen, Fremd zieh ich wieder aus.
Winterreise - Wilhelm Müller
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WEDNESDAY 6 JULY
45. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 11:30
Behn Quartet with Chiaroscuro Quartet
FREE admission class ends 13:00
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THURSDAY 7 JULY
C’est le premier matin du monde
Paradis – Charles van Lerberghe
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THURSDAY 7 JULY
56. VIOLIN TALK – THE OLD CINEMA 15:10
Pernambuco, a 16th century trade between the Normans
and the natives of South America by Stephane Thomachot
FREE Admission Talk ends 15:40
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FRIDAY 8 JULY
62. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 10:00
Then she joined her hands Elm Quartet with Chiaroscuro Quartet
Singing her sad hurt FREE admission class ends 11:30
And the notes she sang
Ravished his young heart 63. COFFEE CONCERT – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 11.00
Diary of One who Disappeared – Ozef Kalda/Seamus Heaney Reger Cello Suite No.1 in G major
Britten Cello Suite No.2 Op.80
Today’s Coffee Concert presents a rare opportunity to hear Reger Cello Suite No.2 in D minor
the first two of Max Reger’s Cello Suites, two works clearly Pieter Wispelwey
composed in the image of his ideal composer, even in the Admission €20/€14/€10 Concert ends 12:00
same keys. Britten’s second of his three Suites was famously
composed for Rostropovich to premiere at his Aldeburgh 64. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 11:30
Festival. Behn Quartet with Vanbrugh Quartet
FREE admission class ends 13:00
Schubert wrote fifteen quartets, but we usually only get to hear
the last four, so it is a rare treat to catch his early G minor
Quartet. Beethoven’s Harp Quartet is named after his almost Image: Pieter Wispelwey Photo: Benjamin Ealovega
ecstatic use of pizzicato especially in the first movement coda,
where for a moment it sounds as if the whole world is singing.
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FRIDAY 8 JULY 68. MAIN EVENING CONCERT – BANTY HOUSE 20.00
Martinů Three Madrigals
65. TOWN CONCERT – ST BRENDAN’S HALL 14.00 Elina Vähälä, Lilli Maijala
Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat Op.12 Bloch Poème Mystique
Young Composer World Premiere Nurit Stark, Cédric Pescia
Bartók Quartet 3 Fauré Piano Quartet in G minor Op.45
Beara Quartet Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Lilli Maijala,
Admission €7 Concert ends 15:00 Adrian Brendel, Tamar Baraia
Admission €47/€37/€27/€13 concert ends 22:00
66. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 15:30
Hydra Quartet with Monika Leskovar 69. LATE GREAT SHOW – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 22.30
FREE admission class ends 17:00
Janáček Diary of one who Disappeared
67. CRESPO SERIES – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 16.00 Mark Padmore, Anna Reinhold, Julius Drake with Voice
Admission €13 concert ends 23:30
Schubert Quartet in G minor D.173
Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op.74 ‘Harp’
Chiaroscuro Quartet Left: Lilli Maijala Photo: Mehmet Erzincan
admission €18/€13/€9 concert ends 17:00 Right: Cédric Pescia Photo: Uwe Neumann
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SATURDAY 9 JULY
He had a cello in his hand. The grain glowed peat-swirl
brown of a mountain tarn, maroon under the f-holes
as if someone had been at it with mammoth blood
The Wanderer – Ruth Padel
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SATURDAY 9 JULY
72. FINALE – BANTRY HOUSE 20.00
Fazil Say Violin Sonata
Mairéad Hickey, José Gallardo
Bloch Piano Quintet No.1
Nurit Stark, Mairéad Hickey,
György Kovalev, Monika Leskovar, Cédric Pescia
Brahms String Sextet in G major Op.36
Elina Vähälä, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Lilli Maijala,
György Kovalev, Adrian Brendel, Ella van Poucke
Schubert String Quintet in C major D.960
Vanbrugh Quartet, Adrian Brendel
ADMISSION €50/€40/€30/€16 FESTIVAL ENDS 23.00
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Image: Christopher Marwood Photo: Miki Barlok Image: Peter Spissky
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Images, clockwise from top left: Evelyn Grant; Carolyn Sampson, Ella van Poucke, György Kovalev and Adrian Brendel
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WEST
WEST CORK LITER
WEST CORK LITERARY FESTIVAL
Bantry / Sunday 17 – Saturday 23 July
An exhibition of Contemporary
readings / workshops / seminars / children’s events
Violin & Bow making
West Cork Chamber Music Festival
The Old Cinema, Wolfe Tone Square, Bantry
Friday 1 – Saturday 9 July 2016
Featuring Violin makers : Youenn Bothorel; Bertrand Galen; Michiel
de Hoog; Conor Russell; Graham Wright (Ireland); Neil Ertz (Scotland);
Francis Kuttner (USA); Jérémie Legrand (France);
Bow makers: Noel Burke; Robert Pierce (Ireland); Emmanuel Carlier;
Eric Grandchamp; Stéphane Thomachot (France); Rüdiger Pfau (Germany)
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