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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2015

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2015: Episode 1

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West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2015

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2015, Episode 1

Highlights from the 2015 West Cork Chamber Music Festival: Ravel, Janacek and Ades.

John Toal presents highlights from the 2015 West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Ravel: Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme. Janacek: Mladi. Ades: Arcadiana.

John Toal presents highlights from the 20th West Cork Chamber Music Festival. 

We begin in the opulence and grandeur of the Library in Bantry House for Ravel's setting of 3 Poems by the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Written in 1913 they were inspired by Stravinsky's Three Japanese Lyrics for voice and chamber ensemble: music he heard during his time in Clarens, Switzerland, with the composer. It's performed here by an exciting set of musicians visiting the Festival. 

From Bantry House we move to St. Brendan's Church for a performance for Janácek's Mládí - "Youth" - although Janácek was a distinguished 70 by the time he wrote it in 1924. He'd been talking about early memories for a proposed biography, and this four-movement piece is a musical reflection on his childhood in Moravia and singing in the Augustinian monastery in Brno.

Today's concert concludes in St. Brendan's with Thomas Adès' Arcadiana. The seven-movement work, written in 1994, is performed by graduates of the Radio 3 New Generation Scheme the Signum Quartet.

Ravel: Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé 
Katharine Dain (Soprano), Philippe Bernold & Fiona Kelly (flutes), Romain Guyot & Mathias Kjøller (clarinets), Anna Tilbrook (piano), Vanbrugh Quartet - Gregory Ellis & Keith Pascoe (violins), Simon Aspell (viola) and Christopher Marwood (cello).

Janácek: Mládí 
Philippe Bernold (flute/piccolo), Gareth Hulse (oboe), Romain Guyot (clarinet), Mathias Kjøller (bass clarinet) Hervé Joulain (horn), Peter Whelan (bassoon)

Adès: Arcadiana 
Signum Quartet
Kerstin Dill and Annette Walther (violins); Xandi van Dijk (viola) and Thomas Schmitz (cello).

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Programmes of highlights from the 20th West Cork Chamber Music Festival

Programmes of highlights from the 20th West Cork Chamber Music Festival, including performances given in Bantry House and St Brendan's Church

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