NCH, Dublin Mon 8pm €30-€65 01-4170000
Andrew Haveron (violin), RTÉCO/ John Wilson
NCH, Dublin Thurs 8pm €11-€38 01-4170000
France and Russia are the focus of this week’s orchestral concerts at the National Concert Hall.
The orchestra for Monday’s French programme is French, with the Orchestre National
du Capitole de Toulouse making its Irish debut. But the evening’s soloist and conductor are both from much further east. Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova a favourite with audiences at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival (where she’ll be returning with her Chiaroscuro Quartet this year), plays Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto, and the other works on the programme, conducted by Ossetian Tugan Sokhiev, are Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.
The violin concerto on Thursday is Tchaikovsky’s, and the soloist, Andrew Haveron, one of the leaders of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, is a former leader of the Brodsky Quartet. The evening’s main work is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, and the concert, which is conducted by John Wilson, also includes Borodin’s Prince Igor Overture and the Adagio from Khachaturian’s Spartacus.
