NCH, Dublin Tonight 8pm 10-35 01-4170000
ROBERT PLANE (CLARINET), RTÉ NSO/GARRY WALKER
NCH, Dublin Tues 1.05pm Adm free 01-4170000
HUGH TINNEY (PIANO)
Castalia Hall, Ballytobin, Callan, Co Kilkenny Sun 8pm 15 056-7761497; NCH, Dublin Wed 8pm 20 01-4170000
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is involved in two rare undertakings this week. On Friday they give an airing to Swiss composer Arthur Honegger's symphonic psalm, Le Roi David,under Pascal Rophé (pictured). It's paired with another work from the 1920s, Milhaud's jazz-infused La Création du monde. In Tuesday's lunchtime concert in the orchestra's Horizons series, the subject is a portrait concert of Belfast-based composer Piers Hellawell.
Pianist Hugh Tinney is at the National Concert Hall on Wednesday for the first of three concerts under the title European Masterworks. The focus in the first programme is Beethoven's
Hammerklavier Sonata, contextualised through pieces by Haydn and Mozart, and with excerpts from Raymond Deane's
Noctuaryproviding a dash of contemporary spice. Tinney also plays this programme in Castalia Hall on Sunday.
