Classical review: Cork Concert Orchestra, Cork City Hall

The Cork Concert Orchestra opened an all-Russian programme under guest conductor Dumitru Goia with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony.

With his close association with the Leningrad Conservatory the Moldovan conductor inevitably imbued the performance with a quiet authority. The players responded with a thrilling, fully committed performance of the epic score “hewn to the backdrop of Stalin’s purges” as Cllr Mick Finn’s programme note put it.