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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 4

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Episode 4

West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016, Episode 4

Beethoven, Ulvi Cemal Erkin and Leo Weiner from the 2016 West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

The Kelemen Quartet in Beethoven: String Quintet in C, Op 29 (with Lawrence Power: viola), and Weiner: Fox Dance. Plus the Borusan Quartet in Ulvi Cemal Erkin: String Quartet.

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

We begin in St. Brendan's Church, set in Bantry's market square and overlooking Bantry Bay, with Beethoven's String Quintet in C, Op.29: a neglected masterpiece written in 1801. Viola player Lawrence Power joins the Kelemen Quartet, founded in Budapest in 2010, for this performance.

We then move to the Library of Bantry House for music by the 20th-century Turkish composer Ulvi Cemal Erkin. He was sent to Paris in the 1920s to learn Western techniques and, given there were so few string quartets written in the 1930s, this powerful work was something of a trailblazer. The Borusan Quartet, founded in 2005, perform this work.

And return to the Kelemen for the last work in the programme: the upbeat Fox Dance from Léo Weiner's Divertimento No.1. 

Beethoven: String Quintet in C, Op.29 
Kelemen Quartet, Lawrence Power, viola 

Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906 - 1972): String Quartet 
Borusan Quartet 

Léo Weiner (1885-1960): Fox Dance (from Divertimento No.1)
Kelemen Quartet.

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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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