Free Music!

Sundays at Noon at The Hugh Lane Gallery is one of the most civilized ways to recover from whatever happened on Saturday night. Free music in amazing surroundings, how cool is that. Over the next two Sundays (8 & 15 Feb) you can hear all of Brahms'  Sonatas for Violin & Piano and Cello & Piano, played by violinist Gillian Williams and cellist Arun Rao (who together form the Duo Chagall) with Russian pianist Elisaveta Blumina. Concerts start at 12 noon, but this series is really popular so you need to get there early. More free music in fab surroundings on Sunday 15 when contemporary ensemble Concorde play New Music from Mexico at IMMA @ 3pm. All Irish premieres, and all written in the 21st century, the programme spans music for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion and includes a dramatic piece for solo cello, electro-acoustic sounds and film projection (by Man Ray) from one of Mexico's best known contemporary composers, Javier Alvarez.