Join West Cork Music to celebrate the music of Dmitri Shostakovich with the Carducci Quartet at Bantry House from October 24th to 26th.

Shostakovich’s music trod the dangerous tightrope between the revelation of truth and terror at the consequences.

His cycle of 15 overwhelming quartets contain the intimate thoughts of a composer who lived through one of the most oppressive dictatorships of the 20th century.

The Carducci Quartet will play the complete cycle of quartets in a candlelit Bantry House on the October Bank Holiday weekend, 24-26 October.

There will be five concerts amounting to just over six hours of music.

For over a decade the Carducci have been playing these 15 quartets, composed over 35 years from the Stalinist Purges in the Thirties, to the Nazi invasion and the siege of Leningrad, the post-war crushing of artistic independence, the death of Stalin and the brief Thaw followed by the decades of the Cold War, and the stifling bureaucratic rule whose sole aim was to crush dissent.

Details and bookings at www.westcorkmusic.ie