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It's another busy week. Orla Boylan sings Strauss's Four Last Songs with the NSO at the NCH on Friday. That same evening the Crash Ensemble's Free State V programme at TCD focuses on the work of younger Irish composers, and Ian Wilson's take on Hildegard von Bingen, Una Santa Oscura, gets the second of three performances at the Project Arts Centre.
On Saturday, students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music begin a month-long Chopin survey at the National Gallery, the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder offer Mahler’s Fifth Symphony at the NCH, and David Bremner presents an unusual organ recital (including three first performances) at St Bartholomew’s Church.
Philippe Cassard, fresh from recording Brahms in Cork, plays a Brahms programme at the Hugh Lane Gallery on Sunday.
That afternoon, Bach scholar Christoph Wolff gives a talk before the final concert in the Orchestra of St Cecilia’s 10-year Bach cantatas marathon at St Ann’s Church.
Samuel Barber's biographer, Barbara B Heyman, gives a talk before Tuesday's centenary concert at the NCH. The Ulster Orchestra offer the rare prospect of a lunchtime performance of Vaughan Williams's Tuba Concerto, soloist Stephen Irvine, on Wednesday. And on Thursday, Waterford New Music Week will screen a documentary on the late Karlheinz Stockhausen, and present a performance of his groundbreaking 1950s electronic masterpiece, Gesang der Jünglinge.
Thursday also sees the Irish debut of the brilliant young Dutch violinist Janine Jansen (pictured), whose programme with pianist Itamar Golan at the NCH includes sonatas by Brahms, Janacek and Beethoven.
