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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 4

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West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2015

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2015, Episode 4

Including Brahms arr Alan Boustead: Serenade in D, Op 11 and Webern: Langsamer Satz.

John Toal presents music from the 2015 West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Including Brahms arr Alan Boustead: Serenade in D, Op 11 and Webern: Langsamer Satz.

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

Many of the musicians who come to the Festival have established solo careers and it's the combinations of performers into chamber ensembles that makes for an interesting mix. That's evident in today's programme which begins with Alan Boustead's arrangement of Brahms' Serenade in D major Op.11 for 9 instruments.

Brahms was famously nervous about writing a Symphony that would inevitably be compared to Beethoven, and this Serenade in D - written in his 20s - was a stepping stone in that direction. Cast in six movements it follows in a fashion similar large chamber works by Beethoven, Schubert and Mozart, and it's scored for Flute, violin, viola, cello, bass, a pair of clarinets, horn and bassoon. 

The programme ends with Anton Webern's yearning Langsamer Satz, translating Short Piece. Written nearly fifty years after the Brahms, this is a Romantic young Webern, before his teacher Schoenberg's ideas of brevity and not writing in a clear key took him in a different direction. Langsamer Satz has been described as a mini-Mahler Symphony.

Brahms: Serenade in D major Op.11 (arr. for nonet by Alan Boustead) 
Chloë Hanslip (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), David Cohen (cello), Niek de Groot (bass), Philippe Bernold (flute), Romain Guyot & Mathias Kjøller (clarinets), Hervé Joulain (horn), Peter Whelan (bassoon)

Webern: Langsamer Satz 
Cremona Quartet - Cristiano Gualco and Paolo Andreoli (violins), Simone Gramalgia (viola) and Giovanni Scaglione (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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