NSO Summer Lunchtime

Karen Ní Bhroin, conductor
Aidan Chan, piano
Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm

Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture 
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 
Augusta Holmès La nuit et l’amour 
Khachaturian Waltz, Mazurka and Galop from Masquerade Suite 

Love is in the lunchtime air as ‘young Irish musician with a rising reputation’ (The Guardian) Karen Ní Bhroin leads the National Symphony Orchestra through the excitable delirium of Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture, Augusta Holmès’ lush, exquisitely intimate La nuit et l’amour, and three dances accelerating in fervour and forceful feeling from Khachaturian’s Masquerade Suite.

Shostakovich’s passionate and playful Second Piano Concerto features 2023 RDS Music Bursary winner Aidan Chan as soloist.

Presented by NCH