Mendelssohn and Haydn at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including the Chiarioscuro Quartet playing Haydn and the Nightingale Quartet performing Mendelssohn.
Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by Â鶹Éç orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
Today we’re back in Bantry for more from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival with the Nightingale Quartet playing Mendelssohn and the Chiaroscuro Quartet performing Haydn. There’s more from the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra, Granada, as harpsichordist Luca Guglielmi joins Le Concert des Nations for a concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach. And we visit Verbier in Switzerland for music from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, with Vasily Petrenko conducting the Verbier Festival Orchestra.
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Liam Taylor-West
Making Space
Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80
Nightingale Quartet
Luise Adolpha le Beau
Violin Sonata in C minor
Elena Urioste (violin)
Tom Poster (piano)
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord)
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (director)
Linda Catlin Smith
Adagietto
Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C major Op. 33 No. 3, ‘Bird’
Chiaroscuro Quartet
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Suite No. 2, Op. 71b
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 4 violins in E minor, Op. 3 No. 4 RV550
Camerata Øresund (Baroque ensemble)
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