NCH, Dublin Tonight 8pm 10-35 01-4170000 TAMÁS KOCSIS (VIOLIN), UO/JOANN FALLETTA Ulster Hall, Belfast Wed 7.45pm £10 048-90323900 ROLF HIND (PIANO, PREPARED PIANO) NCH Kevin Barry Room, Dublin Wed 6pm 15 01-4170000
The second concert of the NSO’s new season offers the tantalising prospect of Russian pianist Alexander Toradze in Scriabin’s Prometheus, his Poem of Fire, a piece written just over 100 years ago that prophetically called for a light organ. Scriabin’s idea was that performances would be bathed in appropriately changing colours, an idea
that has not yet caught on with symphony orchestras. The concert, conducted by Alan Buribayev, also includes Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony and Stravinsky’s early Firebird ballet.
The Ulster Orchestra’s new principal conductor JoAnn Falletta (above) introduces herself in her new role through a taster concert (baroque to Bernstein) on Wednesday, with admission at a flat rate of £10.
The NCH’s Kevin Barry Room is the scene for the first concert in a new season of NewSoundWorlds concerts. Rolf Hind will be playing two pianos, a prepared piano for excerpts from John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, and a regular concert grand for works from the far side of the Pacific ocean by Toru Takemitsu, Tan Dun, Karen Tanaka and Toshio Hosokawa.
