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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016: Episode 3

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Episode 3

West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016, Episode 3

Music by Beethoven and Bloch from the 2016 West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

With Tamar Beraia (piano) in Beethoven's Eroica Variations. Plus Nurit Stark, Mairead Hickey, Georgy Kovalev, Monika Leskovar, Cedric Pescia performing Bloch's Piano Quintet No 1.

John Toal presents highlights from the 21st West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

We begin in the magical setting of St. Brendan's Church, with Beethoven's Erocia Variations, Op.35, written in 1802: the longest and most substantial set of variations he'd composed to date. It's performed here by the Georgian pianist Tamar Beraia. 

That's followed by one of Bloch's greatest achievements, his First Piano Quintet, written during his time spent in Cleveland. Bloch treats the piano as an ensemble instrument rather than a soloist. His moods are extreme: serenity contrasts with savagery, while primitive passions are made to yield to nobility and tenderness. It's performed in the intimate Library of Bantry House by an international line-up.

Beethoven: Fifteen Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat (Eroica Variations), Op.35
Tamar Beraia, piano

Bloch: Piano Quintet No.1 
Nurit Stark, violin
Mairead Hickey, violin
Georgy Kovalev, viola 
Monika Leskovar, cello
Cédric Pescia, piano.

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John Toal presents music performed at the 2016 West Cork Chamber Music Festival

John Toal presents a series of programmes featuring music performed at the 2016 West Cork Chamber Music Festival

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