Russian flavour for Cork

An all-Russian musical extravaganza is coming to Cork and Cathy Desmond has everything you need to know ahead of time.

Russia is the musical flavour of the month in Cork. Rehearsals are currently in full swing as the Cork Concert Orchestra (CCO) prepares to bring an ambitious all-Russian programme to the platform at Cork City Hall on Sunday.

All the works on the programme are by composers who graduated from the oldest music school in Russia, the St Petersburg Conservatory. St Petersburg (Leningrad) is the second largest in Russia after Moscow.