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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2011

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2011: Episode 1

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West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2011

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Music by Ravel, Brett Dean and Janacek played at 2011's West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

Tai Murray (violin) and Gilles Vonsattel (piano) in Ravel: Violin Sonata. Christian Poltera (cello) and Cedric Tiberghien (piano) in Brett Dean: Huntington Eulogy. Plus Janacek.

Sean Rafferty travels to the south west of Ireland and to the historic town of Bantry, where nature and music exist in perfect accord. The Palladian splendour of the library at Bantry House is the venue for much of the music making, which takes place during the last week of June, and the library double doors open out over the lush beauty and splendour of the Italian inspired terraced gardens and up to the 100 steps, known locally as Lord Bantry's Stairway to Heaven.

Today music by Ravel, Brett Dean and Janáček, recorded at Bantry House and St Brendan's Church on Wolf Tone Square in the town. Violinist, Tai Murray with pianist, Gilles Vonsattel begin today's Lunchtime concert with Ravel's jazz-infused Violin Sonata; then the composer in residence, Brett Dean's, Huntington Eulogy - a work which reflect s the natural beauty of the Mudgee region of New South Wales and is also a tribute to a young cellarmaster at Huntington Estate Winery who died in 2001. The programme ends with Janáček Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters, performed by Quartuor Diotima. The work is a declaration of love for the woman who inspired many of Leo? Janáček 's final works, Kamila Stösslová. It was written only a few months before Janáček's death and he said of the piece, "I have succeeded in writing a piece in which the earth begins to tremble. Here I can find a place for my most beautiful melodies. "

Ravel: Violin Sonata 
Tai Murray [violin], Gilles Vonsattel [piano] 
Brett Dean: Huntington Eulogy 
Christian Poltera [cello], Cédric Tiberghien [piano] 
Janacek: Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters' 
Quatuor Diotima.

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Sean Rafferty presents music performed at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry

Sean Rafferty presents music performed at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry in the south west of Ireland

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