James Galway is becoming increasingly active as a conductor. He's in Belfast tonight, making his first appearance in Ireland with the London Mozart Players, whose principal guest conductor he became last year.
There's no risk of him putting away the flute just yet, and, as if to prove the point, his Belfast programme includes two concertos (lesser-known works by Devienne and Quantz); framing them are two major 18th-century symphonies, Haydn's La Passione and Mozart's Symphony in A, K201. If the curiosity of hearing one man play two concertos of a night isn't enough for you, you can seek out the phenomenon of a work for three pianos at the Elmwood Hall in Belfast the following day, when Martin Roscoe joins the Micallef-Inanga Piano Duo for the sonata by Samuel Wesley in a free BBC concert at the Elmwood Hall, starting at 3 p.m.
