Beethoven & Bruckner

The RTE NSO have a very tasty concert at the NCH this coming Fri (12 Feb), with a great big dollop of Beethoven and Bruckner. First up is Beethoven’s sublime Violin Concerto, the only one he wrote, performed by dynamic Latvian violinist Baiba Skride. Then Bruckner’s great Symphony No 4, the ‘Romantic’ under the baton of rising young Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa. Other NSO concerts worth catching include Mozart, Brahms and Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs on 5 March; Ravel’s Bolero and Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Nikolai Demidenko on Fri 12; and Brahms and Prokofiev (featuring pianist Boris Berezovsky) on Fri 16 April. www.rte.ie/performinggroups