AILISH TYNAN (SOPRANO), BENEDICT NELSON (BARITONE), BELFAST PHILHARMONIC CHOIR, UO/JOANN FALLETTA Ulster Hall, Belfast Tonight 7.45pm £8-£22 048-90239955 AILISH TYNAN (SOPRANO), IAIN BURNSIDE (PIANO) Ulster Hall, Belfast Tonight 10pm Adm free 0044-3709011227 ANGELA HEWITT (PIANO), RTÉ NSO/HANNU LINTU NCH, Dublin Tonight 8pm €10-€35 01-4170000 FREE STATE 7 NCH, Dublin Thurs 7.30pm 20 01-4170000
It’s an Ailish Tynan double at the Ulster Hall on Friday. The Mullingar soprano is one of the soloists (with baritone Benedict Nelson) in the Ulster Orchestra’s performance of Brahms’s German Requiem with the Belfast Philharmonic Choir on Friday. And she’s joined by pianist Iain Burnside for a late-night song recital that ranges over Mendelssohn, Ives, Duparc, Britten, Barber and Szymanowski.
The orchestral concert is conducted by JoAnn Falletta, who is adventurously pairing the Brahms with Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite.
That same evening Canadian, pianist Angela Hewitt appears for the first time with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, playing Ravel’s jazz-influenced Piano Concerto in G. The concert, conducted by Hannu Lintu, also includes Matthias Pintscher’s towards Osiris and Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra.
The Crash Ensemble’s latest Free State programme brings the ensemble back to the National Concert Hall on Thursday. The Free State series focuses on up-and- coming composers and presciently promises to present “the future of New Music in Ireland”.
The task of selecting from more than 100 submitted works fell to composer Andrew Hamilton, who can also be heard in a pre-performance discussion with some of the chose composers – Irene Buckley, Daniel McDermott, Garrett Sholdice, Sebastian Adams, Enda Bates, Donal Sarsfield, Emma O’Halloran, Conal Ryan, Eric Egan, Jonathan Nangle and Alec Dowling. The concert has a 7.30pm start and the discussion is an hour earlier.
