NCH, Dublin Tonight 8pm €10-€35 01-4170000
CRASH ENSEMBLE
Town Hall Theatre, Galway Tonight 8pm; Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire Tomorrow 7.30pm; Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co Mayo Mon 8pm; Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Co Kerry Wed 8pm; Pavilion, Cork Thurs 8pm
NEWSOUNDWORLDS
NCH, Kevin Barry Room, Dublin Tues 8.30pm €10 01-4170000
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's exciting new conductor, Alan Buribayev (above), is back in town offering an all-Russian programme of Prokofiev (the spicy Love for Three Oranges Suite), Glazunov (the romantic Violin Concerto with Ilya Gringolts), and wraps the evening up with the exotic narrative of Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade.
Dublin's Crash Ensemble gets out of the capital with a touring programme (Jacob Ter Veldhuis, John Godfrey, Osvaldo Golijov, John Zorn, Gerald Barry, and Donnacha Dennehy). And the enterprising NewSoundWorlds series at the NCH will present a screening of Mauricio Kagel's film Ludwig Van, written for the Beethoven bicentenary in 1970, and full of the most extraordinary musical and visual montages.