West Cork Music Presents: The Ficino Quartet

St. Brendan's Church, Wolfe Tone Square, Bantry, Co. Cork

Fri 05 Dec 2025
8:30pm
€25 / €10 concession


West Cork Music is delighted to 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. After an introductory first movement, the second movement, marked ‘furioso’, is quite shocking in its aggression and graphic portrayal of violence. It is followed by a prayerful and grief-stricken passacaglia which eventually dissolves into a life-affirming finale, picking up the pieces and carrying on.

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

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