NCH, Dublin, Today 8pm 10-35 01-4170000
PIETER WISPELWEY (CELLO), UO/RORY MACDONALDUlster Hall, Belfast, Today 7.45pm £8-£20 048-90239955
UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN CHORAL SOCIETY, GUINNESS CHOIR, UO/DAVID MILNEGrand Canal Theatre, Dublin, Tomorrow 8pm 25-35 0818-719377
JOHN WILLIAMS (GUITAR)CIT Cork School of Music, Cork, Thurs 8pm 20, 25 021-4271659
They don’t do it on purpose, of course. But the RTÉ NSO and the Ulster Orchestra are both featuring cellists in a complicated game of musical chairs today. The young, rapidly-rising Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid makes his Dublin début in Boccherini under Dmitri Jurowski, himself a former cellist. And Pieter Wispelwey (who was heard in Dublin in January) plays Shostakovich’s First in Belfast where the conductor is Rory Macdonald (fresh from last week’s NSO Bohème in Dublin).
The NSO also offer Respighi’s Feste Romane and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. The UO play Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Schubert’s Great C major Symphony.
The Ulster Orchestra heads south on Saturday, to help the combined forces of the University of Dublin Choral Society and the Guinness Choir under David Milne give Dublin’s Grand Canal Theatre a serious workout in Verdi’s Requiem. The soloists are Sylvia O’Brien (soprano), Emma Selway (mezzo soprano), Robert Chafin (tenor), and Simon Bailey (bass).
And that most popular of guitarists, John Williams, is paying a return visit to Cork on Thursday for a Latin-American programme that will include Villa-Lobos’s Preludes and Leo Brouwer’s El Decameron Negro.
