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The Chiaroscuro Quartet at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including the Chiaroscuro Quartet playing Beethoven.

Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe. Today, world-renowned string group the Chiaroscuro Quartet perform music by Beethoven, recorded in the intimate setting of Bantry House at this year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival. There’s also music by Stanford and Vivaldi from West Cork, and we hear Bach from a concert given by Le Concert des Nations in the Palace of Charles V, in the Alhambra, Granada. Plus the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Roxanna Panufnik’s imaginative reworkings of three songs by Alma Mahler, and former ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ New Generation Artist Helen Charlston sings songs by Clara Schumann.

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Igor Stravinsky
Fireworks
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
JiΕ™Γ­ BΔ›lohlΓ‘vek (conductor)

Charles Villiers Stanford
Fantasy No. 2 for Clarinet and String Quartet
Matthew Hunt (clarinet)
Signum Quartet

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for strings in G minor, RV 157
Camerata Øresund (Baroque ensemble)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in D major, K 311
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

Alma Mahler/Roxanna Panufnik
Alma’s Songs without Words: 1. Hymne; 2. Ansturm; 3. Hymne an die Nacht
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

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Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (director)

Clara Schumann
6 Songs, Op. 13
Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano)
Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Edward MacDowell
2 Fragments after the Song of Roland
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)

1500
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130
Chiaroscuro Quartet

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2 hours, 58 minutes

Broadcast

  • Tue 5 Nov 2024 13:00