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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2011

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West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2011

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Music by Brahms and Schumann performed at the 2011 West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

Music from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat. Herve Joulain (horn), Tai Murray (violin), Olga Solovieva (piano). Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat.

Sean Rafferty is at Bantry House in the south west of Ireland to introduce the 2011 West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

Today's concert begins with the Horn Trio in E flat Op. 40 by Brahms. Brahms played the horn and it is believed that the slow movement of this work was a lament on the death of his mother. The Piano Quartet in E flat op. 47 was composed in 1842, the year which has become known as Schumann's Chamber Music Year. During the spring and summer Schumann studied quartets by Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn and during the last six months of the year he composed this Piano Quartet, three string quartets, the Piano Quintet and the 

Phantasiestücke: Piano Trio.
Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat Op.40 
Hervé Joulain [horn], Tai Murray [violin], Olga Solovieva [piano] 
Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat op 47
Nicola Benedetti [violin], Amihai Grosz [viola], Leonard Elschenbroich [cello], Alexei Grynyuk [piano].

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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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