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It's showtime!
Frederica Von Stade (mezzo Soprano), Laurana Mitchelmore (piano), National Concert Hall, Dublin Thurs 8pm €30-€70 01-4170000
It’s another hectic week for concert-goers. A new CD of music by Michael Holohan is being launched at pianist Thérèse Fahy’s lunchtime concert of his work today (with a free copy for everyone at the concert). Tenor Robin Tritschle r and horn player John Ryan join with the RTÉ NSO under Patrik Ringborg for a performance of Britten’s Serenade this evening, and the Belfast Philharmonic Choir and Ulster Orchestra under Kenneth Montgomery take on Handel’s Alexander’s Feast in Belfast.
Also on Friday, a new company called Blue Bulb Media opens a six-concert series at St Ann’s Church in Dawson Street. Soprano Celine Byrne and mezzo Tara Erraught continue their nationwide Music Network tour with pianist Dearbhla Collins , and there are also tours underway by the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet , the violin and piano duo of Catherine Leonard and Hugh Tinney , and the Diversus Guitar Ensemble.
Monday’s London Symphony Orchestra programme under Michael Tilson Thomas includes Berg’s Three Orchestral Pieces as well as Schubert’s Great C major Symphony. A new four-concert series from Ireland Promoting New Music opens at the NCH’s Kevin Barry Room on Tuesday with a Helmut Lachenmann portrait from Sarah Leonard and Rolf Hind . The Dublin leg of an international tour of violin and piano music by Ensecu and Brahms by Romanian duo Remus Azoitei and Eduard Stan is at the NCH John Field Room on Wednesday.
However, crowning all of these is Thursday’s celebrity concert at Dublin’s NCH, the farewell, at 64, of much-loved American mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade, (pictured), whose original programme of German and French song has been replaced by an altogether more wide- ranging programme of songs and arias from both sides of the Atlantic.
