City Hall, Dublin Sat (also Feb 11 and 18) 6pm 15 01-8721122 DANIEL BATES (OBOE), ICO/GÁBOR TAKÁCS-NAGY University Concert Hall, Limerick Thurs 8pm 20 061-331549 (also RDS, Dublin Feb 11 8pm 20 0818-719300)
Sacred Symphoniesis the name Mark Duley has given to a three-concert celebration of the work of the 16th-century Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli, whose tenure at St Mark's in Venice in the late 16th and early 17th centuries made him a famous exponent of what would now be called spatial music.
Duley has chosen Dublin’s City Hall as the venue for the glorious sounds to resound through, and each of the three concerts features music by Gabrieli’s contemporaries.
Collaborating with Resurgam are organist Malcolm Proud (in all three concerts), and the QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble and the Irish Baroque Orchestra (on the 11th and 18th).
The Irish Chamber Orchestra gives the premiere of John Kinsella's 10th Symphony in Limerick on Thursday, with a repeat in Dublin two days later. Kinsella, who will turn 80 in April, shares a most unusual programme with Liszt ( Angelus!), Beethoven (Fourth Symphony) and Jean Français ( L'Horloge de flore). Daniel Bates is the oboe soloist in the Françaix, and Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts.
