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European Quartet Week
Project Partner:
West Cork Music
Dates: 25 March – 2 April 2005
Contact:
www.westcorkmusic.ie
Project Description:
European Quartet Week celebrated the string quartet, Europe’s most intimate and most intensive artform created almost two hundred and fifty years ago by Joseph Haydn.
An impressive line-up of international string quartets was secured to perform a unique series of concerts in Cork, celebrating in style the great tradition of the string quartet. The world renowned Tokyo Quartet along with the Lindsay, Debussy, Casals, Contempo and Callino Quartets joined forces with Cork’s RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet for a series of twenty concerts which took place in University College, Cork, complemented by a strand of rush-hour concerts in non-traditional performance spaces throughout Cork city centre.
A series of string quintets by Luigi Boccherini marked the quintessential European composer's bi-centenary.
European Quartet Week also celebrated Cork’s strong association with the string quartet as home to the RTÉ Quartet for nearly fifty years, a post held by the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet for almost twenty years in a relationship generously fostered by their Residency at University College, Cork.
Date: 25 March 2005, 8pm
Venue: St Mary's Dominican Church, Pope's Quay
Artists: RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
With short readings by Father Stephen Hutchinson, Prior
Programme:
Haydn: ‘Seven Last Words from the Cross’
Date: 28 March 2005, 8pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Tokyo Quartet
Hugh Tinney, piano
Programme:
Haydn: Quartet in C Major Op. 33/3 ‘The Bird’
Berg: Quartet Op. 3
Dvorák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major Op. 81
Date: 28 March 2005, 10.30pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Quatuor Debussy
Late-night with Late Beethoven
Date: 29 March 2005, 12noon
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Artists: RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Richard Lester, cello
Programme:
Boccherini Coffee Concert
Boccherini: Quintet in F minor G. 348
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat Op. 74 ‘The Harp’
Date: 29 March 2005, 8pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Contempo Quartet
Vincent Deprecq, viola
Programme:
Mendelssohn: Quartet in D Major Op. 44/1
Bartók: Quartet No. 4
Mozart: String Quintet in G minor K. 516
Date: 29 March 2005, 22.30pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Tokyo Quartet
Programme:
Late-night with Late Beethoven
Beethoven: Quartet in E flat Op. 127
Date: 30 March 2005, 12noon
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Artists: Contempo Quartet
Richard Lester, cello
Programme:
Boccherini Coffee Concert
Boccherini: Quintet in C Major G. 310
Date: 30 March 2005, 5pm
Venue: Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
Artists: Tokyo Quartet
Programme:
Rush Hour Concert
Mozart: Quartet in B flat K.589
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Beethoven: Quartet in B flat Op. 18/6
Date: 30 March 2005, 8pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Quatuor Debussy
Claire-Marie Le Guay, piano
Programme:
Debussy: Quartet in G minor
Fauré: Quartet Op. 121
Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
Date: 30 March 2005, 10.30pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Late-night with Late Beethoven
Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131
Date: 31 March 2005, 12noon
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Artists: Lindsay Quartet
Richard Lester, cello
Programme:
Boccherini Coffee Concert
Boccherini: Quintet in E major G. 275
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor K.546
Haydn: Quartet in C major Op. 54/2
Date: 31 March 2005, 5pm
Venue: The Port of Cork
Artists: RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
Programme:
Rush Hour Concert
Moeran: Quartet No. 2 in E flat
Schubert: Quartetsatz in C minor D.703
Date: 31 March 2005, 8pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Cuarteto Casals
Michael Collins, clarinet
Programme:
Mozart: Quartet in G major, K.80
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Zemlinsky: Quartet No. 2, Op. 15
Date: 31 March 2005, 10.30pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Lindsay Quartet
Programme:
Late-night with Late Beethoven
Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op.132
Date: 1 April 2005, 12noon
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Artists: Callino Quartet
Richard Lester, cello
Programme:
Boccherini Coffee Concert
Boccherini: Quintet in D major G.353
Schumann: Quartet in A major Op. 41/3
Date: 1 April 2005, 5pm
Venue: Allied Irish Bank, 66 South Mall
Artists: Contempo Quartet
Programme:
Rush Hour Concert
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110
Brahms: Quartet No. 3 in B flat Op. 67
Date: 1 April 2005, 8pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Lindsay Quartet
Simon Aspell, viola
Programme:
Haydn: Quartet in D major Op. 76/5
Tippett: Quartet No. 3
Dvorák: String Quintet in E flat Op. 97
Date: 1 April 2005, 10.30pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Callino Quartet
Programme:
Late-night with Late Beethoven
Beethoven: Quartet in F major Op. 135
Date: 2 April 2005, 12noon
Venue: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC
Artists: Cuarteto Casals
Richard Lester, cello
Programme:
Boccherini Coffee Concert
Turina: La Oración de torero Op. 34
Arriaga: Quartet No. 2 in A major
Boccherini: Quintet in F major G291
Date: 2 April 2005, 5pm
Venue: Trinity Church, Summer Hill North
Artists: Callino Quartet
Programme:
Rush Hour Concert
Haydn: Quartet in G major Op. 77/1
Wilson: Quartet No. 6 In fretta, in vento
Shostakovich: Quartet in F sharp major Op. 108
Date: 2 April 2005, 8pm
Venue: Aula Max, UCC
Artists: Callino Quartet, Contempo Quartet,
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet & Cuarteto Casals
Programme:
Bartók: Quartet No. 3
Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B flat Op. 18
Mendelssohn: String Octet in E flat Op. 20