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Music
Bantry House Music Events 2010
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3rd April 2010 (Easter Saturday)
Callino Quartet (Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven)8pm, Library, Bantry House
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5th June 2010
Hugh Tinney (Chopin bicentenary celebration)8pm, Library, Bantry House
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25th June - 3rd July - West Cork Chamber Music Festival
Friday 25th June - Opening Concert at 8pm
Admission €40/28/12 - please contact West Cork Music
Nielsen String Quartet in G minor Op.13 Danish Quartet
Schumann Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor with Nicola Bendetti (violin), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) and Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 Pacifica Quartet
Fleischmann Piano Quintet Hugh Tinney (piano), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Saturday 26th June - Main Evening Concert at 8pm
Admission €33/25/11 - please contact West Cork Music
Auerbach 24 Preludes for violin and piano Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano)
Rachmaninov Piano Trio in D minor Op.9 "Trio élégiaque" with Nicola Bendetti (violin), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) and Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Sunday 27th June - Main Evening Concert at 8pm
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Weigl Quartet No.1 in C minor Op.20 Artis Quartet
Schubert Piano Quintet in A major D.667 "Trout" Kirill Gerstein (piano), Nicola Bendetti (violin), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) and Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
Sunday 27th June - The Late Great Show at 10.30pm
Admission €14 - please contact West Cork Music
Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op. 127 RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Monday 28th June - Main Evening Concert at 8pm
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Grieg Quartet G minor Op.27 Danish Quartet
Mozart Don Giovanni Act I (arranged for string quartet) Artis Quartet
Monday 28th June - The Late Great Show at 10.30pm
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Schubert Quartet in D Minor D.810 "Death and the Maiden" Pacifica Quartet
Tuesday 29th June - Main Evening Concert at 8pm
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Remembering Terezin
Haas Suite for Oboe and PianoNicholas Daniel (oboe), Katya Apekisheva (piano)
Malkin Zwarte bloemen (Black flowers) Charlotte Riedijk (soprano), Carol McGonnell (clarinet), Danish Quartet, and Dominic Dudley (double bass)
Songs from Terezin Charlotte Riedijk (soprano), Katya Apekisheva (piano)
Schulhoff Sextet Pacifica Quartet, Hartmut Rohde (viola), Anja Lechner (cello)
Tuesday 29th June - The Late Great Show at 10.30pm
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Beethoven Quartet in C Sharp Minor OP. 131 Artis Quartet
Wednesday 30th June - Main Evening Concert at 8pm
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Haydn Quartet in D Major Op. 64/5 "Lark" Chiaroscuro Quartet
Hindemith Clarinet Quintet Jorg Widmann (clarinet), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60 Vadim Gluzman (violin), Hartmut Rohde (viola), Anja Lechner (cello), Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Wednesday 30th June - The Late Great Show at 10.30pm
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Beethoven Quartet in A Minor Op. 132 Pacifica Quartet
Thursday 1st July - Main Evening Concert at 8pm
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Widmann Quartet No.5 with soprano "Versuch uber die Fuge" Charlotte Riedijk (soprano), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Enescu Piano Quartet No.2 Op.30 Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Hartmut Rohde (viola), Anja Lechner (cello), Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Chausson Concert in D Major Op.21 Vadim Gluzman (violin), Angela Yoffe (piano), Pacifica Quartet
Thursday 1st July - The Late Great Show at 10.30pm
Admission €14 - please contact West Cork Music
Brahms Piano Pieces Op. 119
Schubert Sonata in B flat D.960 Philippe Cassard (piano)
Friday 2nd July - The Late Great Show at 10.30pm
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Schubert Quartet in A minor D.804 Chiaroscuro Quartet
Saturday 3rd July - Finale at 8pm
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Widmann Etudes I-III for solo violin Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op.38 Anja Lechner (cello), Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Vierne Piano Quintet Op. 42 Philippe Cassard (piano), Danish Quartet
Boris Tchaikovsky Piano Quintet Olga Solovieva (piano), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
10th August -15th August 2010
Masters of Tradition Music FestivalProgramme available shortly
24th October 2010
Finghin Collins and Lenneke Ruitentime to be announced
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For 13 years, Bantry House has been home to the West Cork Music Festival. But it has also been home to our family since the early 1700s; a family who has celebrated the arts and welcomed guests for generations. Long before it was ever open to the public, the house was often alive with parties and family gatherings. It was first and foremost built and planned as a family home albeit larger and grander then most since it meant to reflect the status and wealth of the Earls of Bantry. It is and always has been loved and cared for, each generation doing its best to keep and preserve it in its own way.
The house and the family survived the difficult times that made Ireland what she is today. It was used as a hospital during the Civil War and a barracks during the Emergency. Clodagh and Geoffrey Shelswell-White opened its doors to the public in 1947, thus bringing tourism to Bantry. In 1978 restoration works started, and the house was made more accessible, not only to tourists but also to all sorts of functions and events. There runs a strong love and interest for art and music throughout the family, culminating in Egerton , an amateur trombonist , always encouraging musicians to perform in the library. When Francis Humphrys approached him with his plans for a Music Festival, he immediately gave permission to hold it in the house. Since 1996, the West Cork Music Festival has grown into a world renowned event and expanded to include monthly concerts throughout the year, The Chamber Music Festival in June and July, together with the Literary Festival, a Traditional Festival in August, and every second year music during the Easter week, this year even in Cork at the Cork School of Music. Soon the house became too small, so locations throughout the town have been added, with concerts in St. Brendans Church, the National School and readings at the Library. And this year, we invite you to enjoy the culinary arts as well, with fine foods prepared especially for our Festival guests; the perfect accompaniment to an already flavourful week.
Through it all, the dear old house stands proudly, creaking, shaking and co-operating, but remaining, by it’s very nature, first and foremost a family home our family’s home. It was never built as either a barracks a hospital nor as a concert hall, and I think we all have to make allowances for that. There may be a shortage of facilities, both the garden and the house are fragile due to their age , so we ask you to bear with us and treat it with care, as we try to do. After all, where else could you sit listening to heavenly music looking at tapestries woven for Marie-Antoinette, walking around lovely gardens overlooking the bay of Bantry and being surrounded by beauty.
You are most welcome to our home, and we hope you will enjoy the Music Festival, which Francis and his team have prepared for you.