Name: Shostakovich Quartet Cycle in Bantry House
Start: 2025-10-24T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-26T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Bantry House and Garden

Shostakovich Quartet Cycle in Bantry House

Join West Cork Music for a celebration of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich over a weekend of music at Bantry House.

Shostakovich was one of the great composers of the Twentieth Century whose music trod the dangerous tightrope between the revelation of truth and terror at the consequences.
His cycle of fifteen overwhelming quartets contain the intimate thoughts of a composer, who lived through one of the most oppressive dictatorships of the Twentieth Century. That time has come round again and, worldwide, art and power collide.
The Carducci Quartet will play the complete cycle in Bantry House on the October Bank Holiday weekend, 24-26 October.