NCH, Dublin Tonight 8pm €10-€35 01-4170000 ALISON ROSE (SOPRANO), PAULINE GRAHAM (SOPRANO), DUNCAN BRICKENDEN (COUNTER TENOR), WOLODYMYR SMISHKEWYCH (TENOR), ANTONIO SANTOS (BARITONE), ACADEMOS Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Tonight 8pm €15 DAVID ADAMS (HARPSICHORD) NCH Kevin Barry Room, Dublin Tonight 8.30pm €10 01-4170000 GAUTIER CAPUÇON (CELLO), RTÉ NSO/PAUL MCCREESH Sligo Institute of Technology Tomorrow 8pm €20 071-9161518
Today is one of those days in which Dubliners are spoilt for choice. Historical performance specialist Paul McCreesh makes his National Concert Hall debut with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in a rich programme that pairs Elgar’s Cello Concerto (with leading French cellist Gautier Capuçon, pictured and Brahms’s German Requiem (with soloists Mhairi Lawson and Benedict Nolan and the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir).
Meanwhile, Academos – “the classical chamber ensemble of the Irish World Academy” – is at Christ Church Cathedral for a performance of Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri, a set of seven cantatas meditating on the body of the crucified Christ. (Buxtehude was the composer Bach famously took four months’ leave to visit.) And harpsichordist David Adams is at the NCH’s Kevin Barry Room, for a programme of works by members of the Irish Composers’ Collective (Peter Leavy, Anna Murray, Dylan Rynhart, Marc Balbirnie, Richard Gill, Sebastian Adams and Natasa Paterson).
McCreesh and the NSO travel to Sligo on Saturday, when the Elgar Cello Concerto will be paired with Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony.
