Kicking off on Friday, June 23rd, RTÉ lyric fm's Paul Herriott will host a series of live concerts from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2023 - the festival features some of the best Irish and International artists who will be performing in the idyllic settings of the library of Bantry House and the stage of St. Brendan's Church in Bantry.
Violinist Alina Ibragimova returns to West Cork, performing Schumann continuing her longstanding partnership with pianist Cédric Tiberghien, while celebrated Irish violinist Mairéad Hickey performs one of the foremost women composers of the 20th Century, Grażyna Bacewicz.
The future of chamber music is in safe hands with the Armida Quartet, returning to the festival again with music by American composer Jack Heggie. Central figures of Ukranian music also feature strongly in lyric's concert broadcasts, with music by composers Lysenko and Silvestrov.
Up to 50 million listeners across the European Broadcasting Union will join RTÉ lyric fm for live broadcasts this year, reaching as far as Spain to Serbia and Germany to Greece.
For full details of our series of RTÉ lyric Live concert broadcasts: www.rte.ie/lyricfm/lyric-live
Live broadcast details:
Friday June 23rd, 7pm
RTÉ lyric Live with Paul Herriott
Paul Herriott broadcasts live from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival with the opening concert of the 2023 festival from the wonderful setting of the library in Bantry House.
Grażyna Bacewicz: Sonata da camera for violin and piano
Mairéad Hickey (violin) Jérémie Moreau (piano)
Schumann: Violin Sonata No.2 in D minor Op.121
Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Sean Shepherd: String Quartet No.3 (European Premiere)
Pacifica Quartet
Mozart: Quartet in C major K.465 'Dissonance’
Pacifica Quartet
Saturday 24th June, 7pm
RTÉ lyric Live with Paul Herriott
Paul Herriott broadcasts live from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival from the library in Bantry House with Schumann and Beethoven featuring violinist Alina Ibragimova, pianist Cédric Tiberghien, the Pacifica Quartet and Irish Violinist Mairéad Hickey.
Mozart: Violin Sonata No.17 in C K.296
Mairéad Hickey, Jérémie Moreau
Schumann: Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor Op.105
Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
Beethoven: Quartet No.15 in A minor Op.132
Pacifica Quartet
Friday June 30th, 7pm
RTÉ lyric Live with Paul Herriott
Paul Herriott broadcasts live from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival from the wonderful setting of the library of Bantry House. Tonight’s programme features Piano Trios by Brahms and Mendelssohn and Enescu’s Violin Sonata No.3
Brahms: Piano Trio No.2 in C major Op.87
Viviane Hagner (violin), Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in D minor Op.49
Viviane Hagner (violin), Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)
Enescu: Violin Sonata No.3 in A minor Op.25
Nurit Stark (violin), Cédric Pescia (piano)
Saturday July 1st, 7pm
RTÉ lyric Live with Paul Herriott
Paul Herriott broadcasts live from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival with a concert from St Brendan’s Church, Bantry this evening featuring works by Ukranian composers Lysenko and Silvestrov, Dvorak and Jack Heggie
Lysenko: Elegy
Vashti Hunter (cello), Nicholas Rimmer (piano)
Silvestrov: Five pieces for Violin and Piano
Nurit Stark (violin), Cédric Pescia (piano)
Dvořák: Piano Trio No.4 Op.90 'Dumky'
Trio Gaspard
Heggie: Camille Claudel Into the Fire
Armida Quartet, Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)
Sunday July 2nd, 7pm
RTÉ lyric Live with Paul Herriott
Paul Herriott broadcasts live from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival from the wonderful setting of the library of Bantry House for the closing concert of the 2023 Festival.
Mozart: Duo for Violin and Viola in B flat K.424
Viviane Hagner (violin), Emma Wernig (viola)
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.10 Op.96
Mairéad Hickey (violin), Jérémie Moreau (piano)
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in C minor Op.19
Claudio Bohórquez (cello), Lilit Grigoryan (piano)
Brahms: String Sextet No.2 in G major Op.36
Viviane Hagner, Mairéad Hickey, Emma Wernig, Séamus Hickey, Claudio Bohórquez, Christopher Marwood
Find out more about this year's West Cork Chamber Music Festival programme here.
