蜜芽传媒

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

Today's programme is bookended by string quartets performing Romantic and more recent repertoire. We begin with Hugo Wolf's concise Italian Serenade, written in May 1887 when he was beginning to find his true voice as a composer of lieder. It is performed here by the French quartet, Quatuor Za茂de. And we end with Thomas Ad猫s's The Four Quarters, commissioned in 2010 by the Carnegie Hall Corporation for the Emerson Quartet. Today the British Doric String Quartet journey through its four movements.

The Viola Sonata by Harrow-born Rebecca Clarke was written in 1919. She described the work as her "one little whiff of success", having come a close second to the Suite by Ernst Bloch for the Coolidge Prize at the Berkshire Festival where it was premiered. Today it's performed by Netherlands-based viola player Dana Zemtsov and Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen.

Wolf: Italian Serenade
Quatuor Za茂de - Charlotte Juillard & Leslie Boulin-Raulet (violins), Sarah Chenaf (viola) and Juliette Salmona (cello)

Clarke: Viola Sonata
Dana Zemtsov (viola), Joonas Ahonen (piano)

Thomas Ad猫s: The Four Quarters, Op.28
Doric String Quartet - Alex Redington & Jonathan Stone (violins), H茅l猫ne Cl茅ment (viola), John Myerscough (cello).