As West Cork Chamber Music Festival come to you live on RTÉ lyric Live with Paul Herriott, you can now also listen to the concerts any time after the live broadcast below. We will update this page with new concerts. They can also be found on the RTÉ lyric Live programme page here. Listen below:
Opening Concert - 26th June 2026
The 31st West Cork Chamber Music Festival opens this evening with a homage to the people and artists of Ukraine. The programme features Ukrainian musicians Anna Fedorova and Diana Tishchenko and includes a work by Valentin Silvestrov Ukraine's greatest living composer. Join Paul Herriott from the library of Bantry House, an idyllic setting for some great chamber music. This concert is being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union as part of the Euroradio Premium Concert Series.
Silvestrov: Five Pieces for violin and piano
Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No.1 in F minor
Diana Tischenko, Anna Fedorova
Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op.127
Calidore Quartet
RTÉ lyric Live - 27th June 2026
This Evening's Concert live from Bantry House features two outstanding string quartets, the NOVO and the Calidore. Ligeti's Nocturnal Metamorphoses relishes in the sounds of summer nights,interestingly, Mozart's Quartet No.15 is the 2nd of the six miraculous quartets he dedicated to Haydn and we bring you a quartet by Beethoven composed almost exactly 200 years ago. Paul Herriott presents this concert live as part of 2026 West Cork Chamber Music Festival and tonight's broadcast is relayed across the EBU as part of the Euroradio Premium Concert Series. This concert is being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union as part of the Euroradio Premium Concert Series.
Mozart: String Quartet No.15 in D minor K.421 (NOVO Quartet)
Ligeti: String Quartet No.1 'Métamorphoses nocturnes' (NOVO Quartet)
Beethoven: String Quartet No.14 in C sharp minor Op.131 (Calidore Quartet)
RTÉ lyric Live - 28th June 2026
Paul Herriott presents tonight's concert live from the library of Bantry House as part of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2026. In the first half of the concert this evening the adventurous Ukrainian violinist, Diana Tishchenko joins with German pianist Amadeus Wiesensee two powerful violin sonatas. And to conclude the concert Shostakovich being an outstanding pianist added a piano part to what was originally intended to be his second quartet so he could go on tour with the leading Russian quartets - his Piano Quintet in G minor. This concert is being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union as part of the Euroradio Premium Concert Series.
Lyatoshynsky: Violin Sonata Op.19 (Diana Tishchenko & Amadeus Wiesensee)
Enescu: Violin Sonata No.3 in A minor 'dans le caractère populaire roumain' (Diana Tishchenko & Amadeus Wiesensee )
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Op.57 (Anna Fedorova & NOVO Quartet)
RTÉ lyric Live - 3rd July 2026
Join Paul Herriott broadcasts from the library of Bantry House for another exciting programme from the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2026. Attacca Quartet perform with two famous quartets by Philip Glass and the World Premiere of a new quartet by Donnacha Dennehy plus Lotte Betts-Dean sings Faure. This concert is being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union as part of the Euroradio Premium Concert Series.
Larcher: My Illness Is the Medicine I Need Delta Piano Trio, Katharine Dain
Fauré: La Bonne Chanson
Lotte Betts-Dean, Sonoro Quartet, Rick Stotijn, Deirdre Brenner
Glass: Quartet Satz, Attacca Quartet
Dennehy: World Premiere, Attacca Quartet
Glass: Quartet No.3 'Mishima', Attacca Quartet
RTÉ lyric Live - 4th July 2026
Join Paul Herriott for tonight's concert coming live from St Brendan's Church in Bantry. The programme includes works by Handel and Van der Aa and commences with a short song cycle by Nico Muhly performed by Lotte Betts-Dean with Sonoro Quartet. This concert is being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union as part of the Euroradio Premium Concert Series.
Muhly: So Many Things (Lotte Betts-Dean, Sonoro Quartet)
van der Aa: For The Time Being (Lotte Betts-Dean, Mona Verhas, Rick Stotijn, Deirdre Brenner)
Handel: German Arias interlaced with movements from violin sonatas (Concerto 1700, Ana Vieira)
RTÉ lyric Live - 5th July 2026
Paul Herriott brings us the Finale of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2026 which opens with a work by Irish Grammy Award winner Donnacha Dennehy and concludes with Mendelssohn's Octet in E flat Op. 20. This concert is being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union as part of the Euroradio Premium Concert Series.
Dennehy: Keening (Lotte Betts-Dean, Sonoro Quartet)
Bartók: String Quartet No.5 (Sonoro Quartet)
Auerbach: Lonely Suite - Ballet for a Lonely Violinist Op.70 (Gerard Spronk)
Auerbach: Piano Trio No.3 (Delta Piano Trio)
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat Op.20 (Attacca Quartet, Sonoro Quartet)