NCH, Dublin Tonight 8pm 10-35 01-4170000
RTÉ VANBRUGH STRING QUARTET
NCH, Dublin Tonight 10.15pm 5 01-4170000
NCC/SIMON CARRINGTON
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co Meath Tonight 8pm Adm free 046-9092300. Glór, Ennis, Co Clare Tomorrow 8pm 16 065-6843103. Holy Trinity Arts Centre, Carlingford, Co Louth Sun 4pm 10 042-9373888
CRASH ENSEMBLE, COISCÉIM, FISHAMBLE
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Tonight 8pm Adm free 01-2724030
NEW ROSS PIANO FESTIVAL
Various venues, New Ross, Co Wexford Fri-Sun 051-421255 newrosspianofestival.com
There’s no shortage of musical offerings in tonight’s Culture Night celebrations around the country.
The National Chamber Choir opens its tour under Simon Carrington (one of the founders of the King’s Singers) at the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan. Their Autumn Landscapes programme will also be heard in Ennis and Carlingford.
The RTÉ NSO's principal guest conductor, Hannu Lintu, is back in town for an intriguing programme that's got two clarinet concertos: the 1948 concerto that Aaron Copland wrote for Benny Goodman and the 12-minute millennium version of the 1998 Peacock Tales that Swedish composer Anders Hillborg wrote for the NSO's soloist Martin Fröst (pictured). They are framed by two very different symphonies, Stravinsky's Symphony in Cand Beethoven's Fifth.
The RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet follow the NSO on the stage of the NCH with a late-night programme of Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Donnacha Dennehy.
Dennehy’s Aisling Gheal and Steve Reich’s Cello Counterpoint feature in the Crash Ensemble’s contribution to a free Culture Night mixed bill at the Mermaid Arts Centre, after which the group heads off to the Engage Arts Festival in Bandon, Co Cork, on Saturday.
The New Ross Piano Festival, which this year focuses on repertoire for two pianos, has a free, 6.30pm, Culture Night performance of Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals, preceded by an arrangement of Rossini's William Tell Overturefor eight hands on two pianos.
