Ficino Quartet at St Brendan’s Church, Bantry

 

Ficino Quartet  St Brendan’s Church, Bantry Friday 5 December 7.30pm

We hope you can join us for our final concert of 2025. We welcome the National String Quartet Foundation classical quartet series to Bantry where the Ficino Quartet will play Shostakovich, Shaw, Cleary and Beethoven in the atmospheric setting of St Brendan's Church. Shostakovich’s stunning tenth quartet from 1964 returns to the themes of conflict, aftermath and resolution which pervade many of his earlier quartets. Valencia is another in Caroline Shaw’s remarkable series of attractive short pieces for string quartet. It is the Valencia orange that is the hero here, made up, in her words, of Hundreds of brilliantly colored, impossibly delicate vesicles of juice, ready to explode. Siobhán Cleary’s new quartet takes its starting point from Reel du Pendu, a traditional Québécois reel.  Beethoven’s first Rasoumovsky quartet is perhaps the most gloriously expansive of all his quartets. The epic journey of the first movement becomes the playful story-telling of the scherzo, then perhaps his greatest and most loved slow movement gives way to the playful virtuosity of the finale.

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