JULY 2018
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
WITH THE
SYMPHONY
FEEL THE PASSION. LIVE THE MUSIC.
Walton Spitfire Prelude & Fugue Rodney-Bennett Murder on the Orient Express Addinsell Warsaw Concerto Ellis Coronation Scot Williams Indiana Jones – Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra Matthew Hindson RPM
TUESDAY 3 JULY 2018 BEN DAWSON
SUMMER LUNCHTIME
RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Anthony Weeden conductor Ben Dawson piano Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm
Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm
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Lights, camera, action! Cinema and transport combine in a glorious celebration of celluloid classics and speed. Walton’s Spitfire Prelude & Fugue tributes the courage of wartime, Addinsell’s tempestuous Warsaw Concerto from Brief Encounter offers a moving portrait of love amidst chaos. Expect thrills aplenty from the master of movie excitement John Williams in Indiana Jones’ action-packed Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra and Matthew Hindson’s adrenalinfuelled RPM. Or let the train take the strain with Vivian Ellis’s delightfully chugging Coronation Scot and the majestic elegance of Richard Rodney-Bennett’s Murder on the Orient Express. NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 1.05pm TICKETS: €12.00 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
FRIDAY 6 JULY 2018 GARY WILLIAMS
A NAT KING COLE CELEBRATION WITH GARY WILLIAMS
RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Anthony Weeden conductor Gary Williams vocalist An unmissable, hit-filled celebration of a legendary singer and classic songs that changed the sound of popular music. Vocalist extraordinaire Gary Williams – ‘A consummate showman who can entertain in spades’ (Musical Theatre Review) – makes an ever-stylish return to the National Concert Hall with his salute to the late, great Nat King Cole. Featuring timeless standards from the heyday of the Great American Songbook – including Hoagy Carmichael’s exquisite Stardust, the evergreen Mona Lisa, the sublime Stay as Sweet as You Are and the swooning romance of When I Fall in Love – it’s the perfect invitation to Smile and Let’s Face the Music and Dance. NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 7.30pm TICKETS €15.00, €25.00, €33.00, €39.50 Concessions (limited): €13.50, €22.50, €30.00, €35.55 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
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Wagner Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre Wagner ‘O du mein holder Abendstern’ from Tannhäuser Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture Rossini ‘Largo al factotum’ from The Barber of Seville Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Smetana Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride
TUESDAY 10 JULY 2018 GAVAN RING
SUMMER LUNCHTIME
RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Timothy Henty conductor Gavan Ring baritone Presented by Evelyn Grant, RTÉ lyric fm
Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm
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Hailed for his ‘lavish talents’ (Opera) and recently acclaimed in the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Welsh National Opera, baritone Gavan Ring serves up a lunchtime treat with Wagner’s dreamy hymn to the Evening Star, ‘O du mein holder Abendstern’, and Rossini’s wickedly virtuosic ‘Largo al factotum’. Wagner’s monumental Ride of the Valkyries and the rousing, colour-saturated Overture from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville showcase opera’s capacity to excite and entertain. Liszt’s passionate Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and Smetana’s effervescent Dance of the Comedians raise the rafters in displays of brilliant orchestral energy. NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 1.05pm TICKETS: €12.00 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
FRIDAY 13 JULY 2018 KIM CRISWELL
CAN’T HELP SINGING!
HOLLYWOOD’S LEADING LADIES IN CONCERT RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Timothy Henty conductor Kim Criswell vocalist With the ‘magnificent [and] fabulous voice’ (The Telegraph) of Broadway and West End leading lady Kim Criswell, the RTÉ NSO turns the spotlight on Hollywood in a tune-filled, drama-packed, emotion-guaranteed salute to legendary sirens of the Silver Screen. Songs made famous by Judy Garland (You Made Me Love You), Lena Horne (Stormy Weather), Barbra Streisand (People) and Liza Minnelli (But the World Goes Round) and tributes to early stars Jeanette MacDonald (San Francisco) and Deanna Durbin (Can’t Help Singing). Doris Day (Little Girl Blue), Julie Andrews (Le Jazz Hot) and Shirley Jones (Being in Love) provide glorious reminders of the movie musical’s Golden Age. NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 7.30pm TICKETS €15.00, €25.00, €33.00, €39.50 Concessions (limited): €13.50, €22.50, €30.00, €35.55 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
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Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1 Anne Dudley Suite from Poldark Tchaikovsky Meditation Copland Quiet City Saint-Saëns Havanaise Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
TUESDAY 17 JULY 2018 RICHARD THOMAS
SUMMER LUNCHTIME
RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Gavin Maloney conductor Richard Thomas violin Irish Freemasons 2017 Young Musician of the Year Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm
Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm
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Escape the lunchtime hurly-burly in the company of three brilliant female voices led by Joan Tower’s thrilling orchestral extravaganza, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1, Anne Dudley’s evocative, relishably romantic Poldark Suite and Lili Boulanger’s sprightly hymn to spring. Aaron Copland’s Quiet City offers an atmospheric and haunting image of a deserted metropolis late at night. Up-andcoming violinist Richard Thomas, Irish Freemasons’ Young Musician of the Year 2017, makes his RTÉ NSO debut with Tchaikovsky’s exquisitely lyrical Meditation and Saint-Saëns’ dreamy and vivacious Havanaise.
NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 1.05pm TICKETS: €12.00 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
FRIDAY 20 JULY 2018
SWINGIN’ WITH THE SYMPHONY BRIAN BYRNE
BRIAN BYRNE & CLAIRE MARTIN
WITH GOLDEN GLOBE-NOMINATED
RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Brian Byrne conductor Claire Martin vocalist William Byrne vocalist Symphony orchestra power backed by Big Band panache makes for unforgettable entertainment as the RTÉ NSO and Golden Globe-nominated composer Brian Byrne celebrate the Great American Songbook in swinging style. Scintillating new arrangements of the evergreen Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Hoagy Carmichael’s I Get Along Without You Very Well and classics from West Side Story, Summer Stock and Mr Wonderful draw on the inimitable talents of outstanding vocalists Claire Martin and William Byrne to set hearts racing and feet tapping. Byrne’s tribute to Martin Luther King on the 50th anniversary of his death and to Leonard Bernstein on the centenary of his birth together with excerpts from Goldenhair, his critically acclaimed setting of James Joyce, make this a night to remember. NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 7.30pm TICKETS €15.00, €25.00, €33.00, €39.50 Concessions (limited): €13.50, €22.50, €30.00, €35.55 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
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DARA O’CONNELL
DOMINIC DUDLEY & MARK JENKINS
ROSALIND BROWN
GRAHAM HASTINGS
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CATRIONA RYAN, HILARY MACKEN
DAVID McKENZIE, ELIZABETH McLAREN
ADELE GREENE
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Tchaikovsky Marche Slave Dvorák Song to the Moon from Rusalka v
Delibes Les filles de Cadix Turina Origia from Danzas fantásticas Puccini ‘Donde lieta usci’ from La bohème Massenet ‘Il est doux, il est bon’ from Hérodiade Eric Whitacre Equus
TUESDAY 24 JULY 2018 IOANA PIPELEA
SUMMER LUNCHTIME
RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Neil Thomson conductor Ioana Pipelea soprano Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm
Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm
A smorgasbord of musical treats serves up a lavish lunchtime feast. Copland’s thrilling anthem Fanfare for the Common Man and Tchaikovsky’s stirringly heroic Marche Slave provide bracing appetizers. Rising-star soprano Ioana Pipelea delivers a main course of operatic gems including the melting Song to the Moon, the achingly beautiful ‘Donde lieta usci’ and the heartrending ‘Il est doux, Il est bon’ topped off by Delibes’ meringue-light Les filles de Cadix. The intense sensuality of Turina’s Origia and Eric Whitacre’s galloping Equus provide perfect digestifs.
NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 1.05pm TICKETS: €12.00 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
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DANIELLE DE NIESE “ THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER SINGER ON THE PLANET” BBC Radio
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FRIDAY 27 JULY 2018
OPERA GALA WITH OPPOSITE: DANIELLE DE NIESE ABOVE: RTÉ NSO
DANIELLE DE NIESE RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Neil Thomson conductor Danielle de Niese soprano A superstar by any other name, Danielle de Niese – ‘opera’s coolest soprano’ (New York Times) – makes a welcome return to Dublin to join the RTÉ NSO for the very first time and to demonstrate again why she is considered ‘one of the most sought-after singers on the planet’ (BBC Radio 3). Compelling and commanding, de Niese possesses a siren-like voice that lights up emotions to thrilling effect, fuelled by her matchless gift for lyricism, enormous reserves of power and all altogether charismatic stage presence. She is glorious proof that the voice is the greatest, most varied and moving of all instruments.
NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 7.30pm TICKETS €25.00, €32.50, €38.50, €45.00 Concessions (limited): €22.50, €29.25, €34.65, €40.50 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso
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