Alina Ibragimova (violin), Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse/Tugan Sokhiev

NCH, Dublin Mon 8pm €30-€65 01-4170000

Andrew Haveron (violin), RTÉCO/ John Wilson

NCH, Dublin Thurs 8pm €11-€38 01-4170000

France and Russia are the focus of this week’s orchestral concerts at the National Concert Hall.

The orchestra for Monday’s French programme is French, with the Orchestre National

du Capitole de Toulouse making its Irish debut. But the evening’s soloist and conductor are both from much further east. Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova a favourite with audiences at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival (where she’ll be returning with her Chiaroscuro Quartet this year), plays Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto, and the other works on the programme, conducted by Ossetian Tugan Sokhiev, are Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique.

The violin concerto on Thursday is Tchaikovsky’s, and the soloist, Andrew Haveron, one of the leaders of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, is a former leader of the Brodsky Quartet. The evening’s main work is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, and the concert, which is conducted by John Wilson, also includes Borodin’s Prince Igor Overture and the Adagio from Khachaturian’s Spartacus.