Chamber music on the wild side

Star violinist Viviane Hagner will be in Bantry for the West Cork Music Chamber Festival. Timm Koelln

‘Chamber music festivals are treasured by music lovers and seen as an essential requirement for a happy summer. Particularly so the annual West Cork Music Chamber Festival in Bantry (June 28-July 7), which is not just a leading major music event in Ireland, but in Europe.

That is not a marketing claim, but the opinion of hundreds of brilliant musicians from home and abroad who have experienced its welcoming charms since it was ...