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2014

STAR PERFORMERS, RISING STARSSymphonic and operatic favourites,Hollywood blockbusters,music inspired by the Irish tradition

Fridays 6 June – 25 JulyNational Concert Hall

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

2014

FRIDAY EVENINGSwith the RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Friday 6 June 2014, 8pm

THE CLAUDIA BOYLE SUMMER OPERA GALAJohn Finucane conductor


BILL WHELAN GALA with SIR JAMES GALWAY flute& guests Zoë Conway fiddle / Catherine Leonard violinColin Dunne dancer / Gavin Maloney conductor


BEETHOVENJohn O’Conor piano / Gerhard Markson conductor

Friday 4 July 2014, 8pm

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAAndrew Litton soloist/director & conductor

Friday 11 July 2014, 8pm Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm, presents

SONIC SPECTACULARAN ORCHESTRAL JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND SPACEAndrew Mogrelia conductor

Friday 18 July 2014, 8pmAedín Gormley, RTÉ lyric fm, presents

HOLLYWOOD GREATSA JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOVIES

Carl Davis conductor

Friday 25 July 2014, 8pm

VIENNESE DELIGHTSHugh Tinney piano / David Brophy conductor

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TUESDAY LUNCHTIMESwith the RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 1.05pm

THE ENCHANTED VIOLIN Helena Wood violin / Gavin Maloney conductor


BARITONE BRILLIANCEGyula Nagy baritone / Colman Pearce conductor


ACCORDION FANTASIESDermot Dunne accordion / John Finucane conductor

Tuesday 1 July 2014, 1.05pm

CIAO ITALIA!Kelley Lonergan soprano / David Brophy conductor


SOUND THE TRUMPETS!Graham Hastings trumpet / Killyan Bannister trumpet Colm Byrne trumpet / Andrew Mogrelia conductor


ON THE BLUE DANUBE Nadene Fiorentini piano / Colman Pearce conductor


LOVE, ACTUALLYRachel Kelly mezzo-soprano / Robert Houlihan conductor

2014Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

Broadcast liveon RTÉ lyric fm,96–99fm withinNiall Carroll'sClassical Daytime(10am–2pm)

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Sinéad Farrell, RTÉNSO piccolo with Marie Cullen, Moore Street stall holder4

RTÉ National Symphony OrchestraSummer Evening Series

FRIDAY 6 JUNE8pm

Claudia Boyle soprano

John Finucane conductor

Rossini William Tell Overture (12’)

Donizetti ‘Ah! tardai troppo… O luce’ (Linda di Chamounix) (4’)

Donizetti ‘Il dolce suono... Ardon gl’incensi’ (Lucia di Lammermoor) (7’)

Verdi I vespri siciliani Overture (9’)

Verdi ‘Caro nome’ (Rigoletto) (5’)

Verdi ‘È strano! è strano!… Sempre libera’ (La traviata) (8’)

Verdi Nabucco Overture (8’)

Thomas Mignon Overture (8’)

Thomas ‘Je suis Titania’ (Mignon) (7’)

Charpentier ‘Depuis le jour’ (Louise) (6’)

Massenet ‘Méditation’ (Thaïs) (5’)

Bernstein Candide Overture (5’)

Bernstein ‘Glitter and be gay’ (Candide) (8’)

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CLAUDIA BOYLE

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Summer Opera Gala

The

Fresh from her success at Danish National Opera, Claudia Boyle, one of Ireland’sbrightest soprano stars, takes a break from her busy international scheduleworking with luminaries such as Joseph Calleja, Kent Nagano, James Conlon andRicardo Muti, to return for a solo evening of heavenly opera and dazzling singingwith the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. The evening presents some of the verybest of Italian, French and American opera, including rousing overtures, Massenet’shypnotically lyrical ‘Méditation’ (Thaïs), the dramatic ‘Mad Scene’ from Donizetti’s

Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi’s spirited ‘Sempre libera’ (La traviata) and bewitching‘Caro nome’ (Rigoletto), the sublime ‘Depuis le jour’ (Charpentier’s Louise) and

Bernstein’s delightfully carefree ‘Glitter and be gay’ (Candide).

Claudia Boyle

RTÉ National Symphony OrchestraSummer Lunchtime Series

TUESDAY 10 JUNE1.05pm

Helena Wood violin

Gavin Maloney conductor

Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

Weber Oberon Overture (9’)

Mozart Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E, K261 (5’)

Mozart Rondo (Allegretto grazioso) in C, K373 (4’)

Liadov The Enchanted Lake (6’)

Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu cher: Mélodie & Scherzo (9’)

Khachaturian Masquerade Suite: Waltz, Mazurka, Romance & Galop (13’)

LUNCH AND ALL...Tickets: €10 concert / €10 Grab&go lunch (sandwich or wrap with tea or coffee)

Lunch voucher must be pre-purchased at box-office with concert ticket. Booking (no fees) via National Concert Hall: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

ENCHANTED

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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Leader Helena Wood steps into the soloist’sspotlight to launch the orchestra’s lunchtime concert series in style with fourfabulous works showcasing the many virtues of the violin. There’s poetry and poweraplenty in Mozart’s yearning Adagio and sprightly Allegretto grazioso, and in thesweetly nostalgic Mélodie and vivacious Scherzo from Tchaikovsky’s Memory of a Dear Place. No less evocative are the colourful Overture to Weber’s Oberon,Anatoli Liadov’s magical and mysterious The Enchanted Lake and the scintillatingMasquerade Suite by Khachaturian.

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Violin

Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm,96–99fm within Niall Carroll'sClassical Daytime (10am–2pm)

Helena Wood



Gyula Nagy baritone

Colman Pearce conductor


Suppé Poet and Peasant Overture (10’)

Mozart ‘Hai già vinta la causa... Vedrò mentre io sospiro’ (The Marriage of Figaro) (5’)

Verdi ‘Per me giunto’ (Don Carlos) (5’)

Puccini Intermezzo (Manon Lescaut) (5')

Borodin ‘Ni sna ni otdycha’ (Prince Igor) (8’)

Shostakovich Romance (The Gadfly) (4’)

Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker) (7’)



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The young Hungarian baritone Gyula Nagy has been making a name for himselfas an Opera Theatre Company ‘Young Artist’. For his concert debut with the RTÉNational Symphony Orchestra, he tackles three formidable and varied characters:Mozart’s fickle and scheming Count Almaviva, Verdi’s loyal but doomed Marquisde Posa and Borodin’s heroic Prince Igor. Adding lustre to baritonal burnish areorchestral favourites by Suppé (the robustly romantic Poet and Peasant Overture),Puccini (Manon Lescaut’s luscious Intermezzo), Shostakovich (The Gadfly’sswooning Romance) and Tchaikovsky (the ever-delightful Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker).

Brilliance


BARITONE

Gyula Nagy

Belfast and Limerick are renowned respectively for their linen and lace

and it was a beautiful image in “An Unborn Child” by the Belfast poet

Derek Mahon which lubricated my imagination. The child, awaiting its

birth, muses on the mysteries relayed “through the dark network” of

its mother’s body as she sews in expectation of the infant arrival.

I pictured her fingering the filigree of Limerick Lace and grasping the supple strength of Belfast Linen.

Somehow this image, and the anticipatory life of the womb,

became the affirmative force which inspired this piece.

When Sir James Galway and I first spoke of working togethertowards the birth of a new fluteconcerto, we wanted to link our two native cities.

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Bill Whelan onLinen and Lace

Bill Whelan


FRIDAY 20 JUNE8pm

Zoë Conway fiddle

Catherine Leonard violin

Colin Dunne dancer

Gavin Maloney conductor

Star performers from the worlds of classical and traditional musicjoin the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and conductor GavinMaloney to celebrate the music of Grammy-winning Riverdancecomposer Bill Whelan.

TICKETS & BOOKINGTickets: €20, €28, €38, €45 (concessions €18, €25.20, €34.20, €40.50)


Also in Limerick Saturday 21 June 2014, 8pm: Limerick University Concert HallWith the support of Limerick City of Culture 2014. This performance will be broadcast live on

RTÉ lyric fm and webcast on www.rte.ie/lyricfm as part of the Limerick’s City of Culture 2014 celebrations. Tickets: €20, €30, €35 (concession €32.50)

Booking: University Concert Hall / www.uch.ie / 061 331549

BILL WHELANGALA

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Featuring the world premiere performances of Linen and Lace, Whelan’s new fluteconcerto for the internationally renowned flautist, Sir James Galway and symphonyorchestra, commissioned by RTÉ lyric fm to mark Limerick City of Culture, togetherwith some of Whelan’s most popular music: the colourful and dynamic RiverdanceSymphonic Suite, the evocative Inishlacken and the exhilarating An Chistín from theConnemara Suite, Whelan’s playful interaction between fiddle, feet and orchestra.

Sir James Galway flutewith

RTÉ lyric fm and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra present

Sir James Galway



Dermot Dunne accordion

John Finucane conductor


Glinka Jota Aragonesa (9’)

Bacalov (arr. Stewart) Il Postino Medley (5’)

Monti Czardas (5’)

Abreu Tico-Tico no Fubá (4’)

Piazzolla (arr. Dunne) Oblivion (5’)

Piazzolla (arr. Dunne) Libertango (4’)

Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol (15’)



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Hailed by The Irish Times as ‘Ireland’s leading accordion virtuoso’, Dermot Dunneshowcases the vibrant attractions of an instrument currently enjoying renewedpopularity. In a colourful recital of heated passions and virtuosic flair, Luis Bacalov’senchanting theme to the hit romantic comedy film Il Postino gives hope to all would-be lovers, while Monti’s re-working of Hungarian folk themes and the hauntingOblivion and opulent Libertango of Astor Piazzolla reveal the accordion’s surprisinggift for emotion. Abreu’s irresistibly happy Tico-Tico no Fubá and Spanish fantasiesfrom Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov add irresistible Iberian sunlight and warmth.

Fantasies


ACCORDION

Dermot Dunne


FRIDAY 27 JUNE8pm

John O’Conor piano

Gerhard Markson conductor

Beethoven Egmont Overture (9’)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, ‘Emperor’ (40’)

Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 in C minor (30’)

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BEETHOVEN

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The wide-ranging The Beethoven Project, presented by the Royal Irish Academy ofMusic, reaches a magnificently imposing finale with three epic, revelatory worksstamped through with all the brilliance and boldness associated with one of the trulygreat composers. Local keyboard legend John O’Conor joins the RTÉ NationalSymphony Orchestra and the orchestra’s former Principal Conductor Gerhard Marksonfor the game-changing ‘Emperor’ Concerto – a heroic battle of wills between piano

and orchestra – while the dramatic Egmont Overture and thunderous Fifth Symphonymove rousingly from darkness to light with monumental force.

John O’Conor


TUESDAY 1 JULY1.05pm

Kelley Lonergan soprano

David Brophy conductor


Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture (8’)

Puccini Chrysanthemums (6’)

Cilea ‘Io son l’umile ancella’ (Adriana Lecouvrer) (4’)

Puccini ‘Si, mi chiamano Mimì’ (La bohème) (4’)

Mascagni L’amico Fritz Intermezzo (4’)

Puccini ‘Donde lieta usci’ (La bohème) (4’)

Leoncavallo ‘Stridono lassù’ (Pagliacci) (5’)

Respighi The Magic Toy Shop (after Rossini): Overture, Tarantella, Danse, Can-Can, Galop (10’)



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Clonmel-born soprano Kelley Lonergan, winner of the 2013 RDS Music Bursaryand an Opera Theatre Company Young Artist, places emotion to the fore in herconcert debut with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Be entranced by thebeautiful, bewitching delicacies of Puccini’s ‘Si, mi chiamano Mimì’ and ‘Dondelieta usci’ (La bohème), the exalted turmoil of Leoncavallo’s ‘Stridono lassù’(Pagliacci) and the sweetly fervent ‘Lo son l’umile ancella’ from Cilea’s AdrianaLecouvrer. Swoon to Puccini’s aromatic Chrysanthemums and become a child againin the wonders of Respighi’s richly coloured and event-filled Magic Toy Shop.

CIAO


ITALIA!

Kelley Lonergan


FRIDAY 4 JULY8pm

Andrew Littonsoloist/director & conductor

Copland An Outdoor Overture (10’)

Barber Adagio for Strings (8’)

Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (full orchestra version) (16’)

Dvorák Symphony No. 9, Op. 95, From the New World (40’)



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Acclaimed American conductor Andrew Litton makes a welcome return onIndependence Day with a quartet of works celebrating America the bold and thebrave. Copland’s An Outdoor Overture is a gently heroic tribute to the frontier spirit,Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue a euphoric celebration of city life, Barber’sheart-stopping Adagio for Strings, popularised in the films The Elephant Man andPlatoon, a deeply felt expression of grief. Dvorák’s From the New World (taken by Neil Armstrong to the Moon on board Apollo 11) proves a glorious hymnal toAmerica’s spirit and soul.

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Andrew Litton



Graham Hastings trumpet / Killyan Bannister trumpetColm Byrne trumpet / Andrew Mogrelia conductorPresented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm

Cimarosa The Secret Marriage Overture (8’)

Vivaldi Concerto for Two Trumpets in C, RV537 (7’)

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Intermezzo (4’)

Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Scherzo (5’)

Adams Tromba Lontana (4’)

Anderson Bugler’s Holiday (3’)

Shostakovich Ballet Suite No. 1 (14’)



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The Trumpet Section of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra takes centre stagefor a tribute to the prince of brass instruments, with Vivaldi’s bright, resoundingConcerto for Two Trumpets, John Adams’ haunting Tromba Lontana and LeroyAnderson’s joyfully effervescent Bugler’s Holiday. The Overture to Cimarosa’s TheSecret Marriage and Intermezzo and Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s A MidsummerNight’s Dream add stately wit and dreamy fantasy, with Shostakovich’s First BalletSuite a brilliantly orchestrated display of dancing delicacy and slap-stick charm.


TRUMPETSSound the

Colm Byrne, Graham Hastings & Killyan Bannister


FRIDAY 11 JULY8pm

Andrew Mogrelia conductor

Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm

Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture (10’)

Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) Introduction, Dance of the Firebird, Variation of the Firebird (5’)

Larchet By the Waters of Moyle (9’)

Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (4’)

Barry Dances With Wolves, Main Theme (3’)

Williams The Empire Strikes Back, Main Theme (5’)

Brahms Hungarian Dances, No. 1 in G minor, No. 3 in F (5’)

Dvorák Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 No. 8 in G minor (3’)

Gluck ‘Dance of the Blessed Spirits’ (Orfeo ed Euridice) (6’)

Khachaturian Spartacus Suite No. 2, Adagio (9’)

Tchaikovsky Festival Coronation March (5’)

Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel) ‘The Great Gate of Kiev’ (Pictures at an Exhibition) (5’)



SONIC

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Spectacular

RTÉ lyric fm presenter Liz Nolan takes us on an orchestral journey through timeand space with some of the most colourful and brilliant music ever composed.Join in the celebrations of Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and Tchaikovsky’sFestival Coronation March, thrill to exhilarating dances by Brahms and Dvorák,admire the imperial grandeur of John Williams’ The Empire Strikes Back andMussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, revel in Stravinsky’s exotic The Firebirdand Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. And to relax: the lilting beauties of Dances With

Wolves, Delius’ spring cuckoo, Khachaturian’s Adagio and John Larchet’s poem for his children, By the Waters of Moyle.

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Nadene Fiorentini piano

Colman Pearce conductor


Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio Overture (6’)

Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor (21’)

Brahms (arr. Schmeling) Hungarian Dances, Nos. 5 in G minor; 6 in D; 7 in F (9’)

J Strauss II By the Beautiful Blue Danube (9’)



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Dublin International Piano Competition prize winner and NCH ‘Rising Star’ NadeneFiorentini makes her much-anticipated debut with the RTÉ National SymphonyOrchestra in Mendelssohn’s youthful, free-flowing, vibrantly virtuosic First PianoConcerto. The Overture to Mozart’s opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, set in a harem, bristles with a delightful invention that puts the Emperor Joseph II’sfamous complaint – ‘Too many notes!’ – to shame; three of Brahms’ vivaciousHungarian Dances rhapsodise the virtues of traditional folk music; and the ever-exquisite Blue Danube Waltz takes us from Hungary liltingly back to Mozart’s Vienna.

On the


BLUE DANUBE

Nadine Fiorentini


FRIDAY 18 JULY8pm

Carl Davis conductor

Presented by Aedín Gormley, RTÉ lyric fm

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HOLLYWOOD GREATS

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Take your seats for a night at the movies with RTÉ lyric fm’s Aedín Gormley andacclaimed composer-conductor Carl Davis for outstanding music from film andtelevision masterpieces. Bask in the warmth of South Pacific, the heat of Casablanca,The Pirates of the Caribbean and Out of Africa. Thrill to epic stories of heroes real (El Cid, Napoleon, Chariots of Fire) and imagined (Gladiator) and experience theheroism and heartache of war (Bridge on the River Kwai, The World at War). Escapeinto the exoticism of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the romance of West Side Story,

Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet, the adventure of Around the World in 80 Daysbefore returning home for the delights of The Quiet Man.

A Journey through the Movieswith CARL DAVIS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

Carl Davis

Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano

Robert Houlihan conductor


Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Overture (4’)

Mozart ‘Voi che sapete’ (The Marriage of Figaro) (3’)

Rossini ‘Naqui all’affanno… Non più mesta’ (La Cenerentola) (7’)

Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann: Intermezzo and Barcarolle (6’)

Bizet Seguidilla (Carmen) (3’)

Gounod ‘Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle’ (Roméo et Juliette) (5’)

Fauré Pavane (7’)

Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (10’)



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A Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Young Artist with performances in CarnegieHall and St Petersburg to her credit, the young Irish mezzo-soprano Rachel Kellymakes a welcome return to perform ravishing operatic favourites including Mozart’sardent ‘Voi che sapete’ (Marriage of Figaro), Carmen’s coquettish Seguidilla, the coloratura splendour of Rossini’s ‘Naqui all’affanno’ (La Cenerentola) andGounod’s passionate ‘Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle’ (Roméo et Juliette). And orchestral thrills aplenty, too, in overtures by Mozart and Offenbach and Fauré’s limpid, ever-gorgeous Pavane.




LOVE,Actually

Rachel Kelly

Hugh Tinney piano

David Brophy conductor

Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B minor, ‘Unfinished’ (23’)

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, ‘Elvira Madigan’ (29’)

J Strauss II Die Fledermaus Overture (9’)

J Strauss II Pizzicato Polka (3’)

J Strauss II Perpetuum Mobile (3’)

J Strauss II Thunder and Lightning Polka (3’)

J Strauss II Emperor Waltz (11’)

J Strauss I Radetzky March (3’)

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VIENNESE

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Schubert’s mighty ‘Unfinished’ Symphony ushered in the Romantic era with musicthat is by turns, bittersweet, brooding and bold – qualities the Viennese audienceat its premiere relished and that sublimely echo Mozart’s ‘Elvira Madigan’(popularised by the 1967 Swedish film of the same name), a serenely beautifulconcerto brimming with exquisite melodies. And although the sumptuous EmperorWaltz underlines why the younger Johann Strauss will forever be known as ‘TheWaltz King’, his sparkling polkas and rapturous overture to Die Fledermaus areViennese music-making at its most ornate and delectable. To conclude, clap theRTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to a well-earned summer break with Johann

Strauss Senior’s thrilling Radetzky March.

Delights


FRIDAY 25 JULY8pm

Hugh Tinney

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