Main Evening Court @ West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2019

Main Evening Court @ West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2019

Friday, 5 July 2019, 8.00pm

58. MORNING TALKBRICK OVEN 10.00
Evelyn Grant in conversation with Dénes Várjon, Izabella Simon 
ADMISSION €6 TALK ENDS 10.40  

59. MASTERCLASSMARITIME HOTEL 10.00 
Ophelia Quartet with Marc Danel
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 11.30 

60. COFFEE CONCERTST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 11.00
Fieri Consort, Camerata Øresund, Peter Spissky
Works by Marini and Castello
Madrigals from Monteverdi from Seventh Book of Madrigals 
Tempro la cetra; A quest’olmo; Interotte Speranza; O come sei gentile Quel augelin, che canta; Chiome d’oro; Al lume delle stele, Tirsi e Clori 
ADMISSION €20/€14/€10 CONCERT ENDS 12:00

61. MASTERCLASSMARITIME HOTEL 11.30 
Docklands Quartet with Christopher Marwood 
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 13.00 

62. TOWN CONCERTST BRENDAN’S HALL 14.00 
Ophelia Quartet
Mendelssohn Quartet in A minor Op.13
Composition Competition New Work
Shostakovich Quartet No.7 in F sharp minor Op.108 
ADMISSION €7 CONCERT ENDS 15.00 

63. MASTERCLASSMARITIME HOTEL 15.00 
Echéa Quartet with Marc Danel
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 16.30 

64. BAROQUE MASTERCLASSTHE COURTROOM 16.00 
Westland Baroque with Peter Spissky, Anna Devin
FREE ADMISSION CLASS ENDS 17.30 

65. CRESPO SERIESST BRENDAN’S CHURCH 16.00 
Ibert Trois pièces brèves Azahar Ensemble
Poulenc Sextet Azahar Ensemble, Gloria Campaner 
Fauré Piano Quintet No.1 in D minor Op.89
Quatuor Zaïde, Finghin Collins
ADMISSION €18/€13/€9 CONCERT ENDS 17.00 

66. MAIN EVENING CONCERTBANTRY HOUSE 20.00 
Emma O’Halloran ‘Dying is a Wild Night’
Quatuor Zaïde
Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44
Gloria Campaner, Borusan Quartet
Golijov Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind 
Mate Bekavac, Dahlkvist Quartet 
ADMISSION €47/€37/€27/€13 
CONCERT ENDS 22.00 

67. LATE GREAT SHOWBANTRY HOUSE 22.30
Mozart Divertimento for String Trio in E-flat Major K.563 
Henning Kraggerud, Ellen Nisbeth, Emmanuelle Bertrand 
ADMISSION €14 CONCERT ENDS 23.30 

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Augellin che la voce al canto spieghi,
[Little bird, who unfurls song with your voice]
Anon – music by Claudio Monteverdi [1619] 

Fieri Consort and Camerata Øresund come together for a programme built around Monteverdi’s Seventh Book of Madrigals composed exactly four hundred years ago, songs of love and love denied, mostly love denied except for the amorous dances of Tirsi e Clori.

Ibert’s Three short pieces gets this French-themed Crespo Series off to a cheerful start, followed by Poulenc’s bizarre Sextet, one minute all romantic seriousness, the next surreal craziness. Fauré worked on his First Piano Quintet for over twenty years, the final creation is a delicately crafted work, whose beauty is always restrained and its calmness belies the immense labour it cost the composer.

The young Irish composer, Emma O’Halloran, took the title of her Quartet from an Emily Dickinson letter – Dying is a wild night and a new road. Schumann’s Piano Quintet is not only his supreme chamber music achievement, but also his happiest reconciliation of the conflicting demands of form and content - youthful fire and a master’s assurance sitting easily side by side. Dreams and Prayers is a big work, a fusion of Jewish klezmer tradition with the classical tradition of the string quartet. It makes huge demands on the clarinet player who must play a whole series of instruments with music ranging from wildly raucous to calm, gentle and beautiful and everything in between. 

Mozart’s E flat Divertimento is one of music’s best-kept secrets. You open this unassuming door labelled Divertimento that you never before noticed and suddenly you are face to face with the composer himself making the purest, most exquisite music you have ever heard.

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Published by Journal of Music on 28 June 2019

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