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John Toal presents highlights from the 22nd West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

We begin today's programme with Grieg's Violin Sonata No.1 in F major, Op.8 - composed in 1865, when Grieg was 22. The composer himself played the piano in the first performance of the work, in Leipzig in mid-November 1865, during a stop-over on his way to Italy; the violinist was the Swede Anders Petterson. Today's performers are the Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud and Hungarian pianist D茅nes V谩rjon, in the setting of St. Brendan's church, Bantry.

We'll then hear D茅nes is a solo capacity with Schumann's Fantasiest眉cke, Op.12 of 1838. The set of eight pieces pay oblique tribute to one of Schumann's favoured authors, E T A Hoffmann, and present wonderful contrasts from movement to movement. They are performed in the library of Bantry House.

Grieg: Violin Sonata No.1 in F major, Op.8
Henning Kraggerud (violin), D茅nes V谩rjon (piano)

Schumann: Fantasiest眉cke, Op.12
D茅nes V谩rjon (piano).