Late Great Show: Borusan Quartet @ West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2019
20. MORNING TALK – BRICK OVEN 10.00
Evelyn Grant in conversation with Delta Piano Trio ADMISSION €6 TALK ENDS 10.4
21. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 10.00
Echéa Quartet with Kerstin Dill
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 11.30
22. COFFEE CONCERT – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 11.00
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Mozart Quartet in E flat K.428
Beethoven Quartet No.6 in B flat Op.18/6
ADMISSION €20/€14/€10 CONCERT ENDS 12.00
23. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 11.30
Ophelia Quartet with Borusan Quartet
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 13.00
24. TOWN CONCERT – ST BRENDAN’S HALL 14:00
Doolan Quartet
Haydn Quartet in B flat major Op.76/4
‘Sunrise’ Composition Competition New Work
Janáček Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
ADMISSION €7 CONCERT ENDS 15.00
25. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 15.00
Danu Quartet with Kerstin Dill
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 16.30
26. VIOLIN TALK – OLD CINEMA 15.15
Jan Strick – Violin making in Seventeenth Century Europe
FREE ADMISSION TALK ENDS 15.45
27. MASTERCLASS – THE MARITIME HOTEL 16.00
Docklands Quartet with Quatuor Zaïde
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 17.30
28. CRESPO SERIES – ST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 16.00
Johannes Moser, Dénes Várjon
Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op.65
Britten Cello Sonata Op.65
Beethoven 7 Variations on Mozart’s ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ WoO 46
ADMISSION €18/€13/€9 CONCERT ENDS 17.00
29. MAIN EVENING CONCERT – BANTRY HOUSE 20.00
Szervánsky Wind Quintet No.1 Azahar Ensemble Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat major Op.70/2
Viviane Hagner, Johannes Moser, Barry Douglas
Alkan Sonate de Concert Op.47 Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel
ADMISSION €47/€37/€27/€13 CONCERT ENDS 22.00
30. LATE GREAT SHOW – BANTRY HOUSE 22.30
Beethoven Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131 Borusan Quartet
ADMISSION €14 CONCERT ENDS 23
‘You have transformed a public into a circle of friends.’ – Marquis de Custine to Chopin
Our exploration of Beethoven’s six early Quartets concludes with La Malinconia, the extraordinary Finale to the Sixth, where a dramatic and tragic introduction is contrasted with a dementedly cheerful Allegretto. This is paired with Mozart’s secretive E flat Quartet, the one that best reflects his mercurial temperament, a Quartet whose opening movements belong to a later era with their ceaseless probing of musical boundaries. Chopin’s Cello Sonata has malevolently been described as a sonata for piano with cello accompaniment, an accusation immediately denied by one moment with the brief but glorious Largo.
It is strange that Szervánsky’s First Wind Quintet is not better known, it is a warm, sunny and generous work, brilliantly written for the instruments with a spectacular horn part. Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Trio was finished in the year of his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies so we can expect broad flowing melodies and an indulgent attitude towards big tunes – a particular delight is the delicious Allegretto with its witty and mellifluous sets of double variations. Alkan was a virtuoso pianist and friend of Chopin and they both wrote their respective cello sonatas for the great cellist Auguste Franchomme. Alkan’s Sonata must count as another forgotten masterpiece with the mystic poetry of the Adagio and the prodigious energy of the Finale.
Late Night the Borusan play one of the peaks of the quartet world, composed almost two hundred years ago, Beethoven’s greatest quartet, a work so far ahead of its time that even now it is seen as extraordinary. The C sharp minor Quartet, Op.131, is in seven movements, played without a break.
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