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John Toal presents the second programme in our series of recitals from this year's Belfast Music Society International Festival of Chamber Music, performed in the Great Hall at Queen's University, Belfast. In today's recital, we open with a performance of a collection of songs by British composers including Stanford, Holst, Coleridge-Taylor and Frank Bridge with mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones with pianist Rebecca Cohen. Pianist Michael McHale returns to the stage for today's programme with three love songs arranged for solo piano- Augusta Holm猫s' 'Evocation d'Amour and Clara Schumann's 'Sie Liebten Sich Beide'- both arranged by McHale and to finish the set a piece by Liszt after Robert Schumann- Liebeslied S.566 鈥淲idmung鈥�.

To finish the recital, the London-based Marmen Quartet perform Bartok's String Quartet No. 4 in C Major written in 1928

C Stanford - A Soft Day
Gurney - Desire in Spring
Holst - Persephone
Ireland - Sea Fever
R Clarke - June Twilight
Bridge - Come to me in My Dreams
Coleridge Taylor - Life and Death
Claire Barnett-Jones, mezzo-soprano | Rebecca Cohen, piano

Augusta Holm猫s (arr. McHale)- Evocation d鈥橝mour
Clara Schumann (arr. McHale)- Sie Liebten Sich Beide op.13 no.2
Liszt/Schumann- Liebeslied S.566 鈥淲idmung鈥�
Michael McHale, piano

Bartok - String Quartet No. 4 in C Major
Marmen Quartet