RTE National Symphony Orchestra Summer 2018

2018

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

WITH THE

SYMPHONY

FEEL THE PASSION. LIVE THE MUSIC.

FRIDAY 1 JUNE 2018 © SONY PICTURES

TAXI DRIVER LIVE SCREENING IN CONCERT

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Robert Ziegler conductor Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver with a live performance by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Bernard Herrmann’s glorious last film score which provides an eloquent, nightmarish texture to Scorsese’s hellish portrait of 70s Manhattan.

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Suitable for persons aged 18 or older.

Presented by RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in association with Sony Pictures, Park Circus, Southbank Centre and the British Film Institute.

Duration: 113 minutes. Please note: this will be performed without interval.

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 7.30pm TICKETS: €25.00 (restricted view), €30.00, €37.50, €45.00 Concessions (limited): €22.50 (restricted view), €27.00, €33.75, €40.50 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

FRIDAY 8 JUNE 2018

AN EVENING WITH ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL

ELLIOT

GOLDENTHAL RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Ernst van Tiel conductor Ladies from New Dublin Voices Presented by Dave Fanning, RTÉ 2fm The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra proudly presents an evening with Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award winner and Grammy nominee Elliot Goldenthal to include music from some of his blockbuster movies scores and a rare opportunity to hear Goldenthal himself in conversation with RTÉ 2fm’s Dave Fanning.

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Featuring music from a selection of his epic scores such as the Grand Gothic Suite, Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and the films on which he collaborated with Neil Jordan and for which he earned two Oscar nominations: Interview with the Vampire and Michael Collins.

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Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 v

Dvorák Rondo for Cello and Orchestra Potter Rhapsody Under a High Sky Tchaikovsky Pezzo capriccioso Potter Finnegan’s Wake Saint-Saëns Bacchanale from Samson and Dalilah

TUESDAY 12 JUNE 2018 JONATHAN BERMAN

SUMMER LUNCHTIME

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Jonathan Berman conductor William Butt cello Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm Escape into the sounds of summer with Brahms’ effervescent Hungarian Dance, Dvorák’s spirited Rondo teeming with colour and drama and AJ Potter’s exquisitely delicate pastoral daydream. v

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If the Tchaikovsky casts an aching shadow over the sun, Potter’s animated bringing to life of Finnegan’s Wake will banish it! The excitable, exotic and erotic Bacchanale shows Saint-Saëns at his most sensual and virtuosic in a masterpiece orchestral showcase.

NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 1.05pm TICKETS: €12.00 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

FRIDAY 15 JUNE 2018 © DISNEY

ONCE UPON A DREAM CELEBRATING DISNEY

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Timothy Henty conductor Máire Flavin soprano For the child and the dreamer in all of us, a collection of all-time favourite Disney scores from all-time favourite movies performed live by the might and power of your RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and one of Ireland’s fastest-rising young stars, soprano Máire Flavin.

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With songs including ‘Once upon a dream’ from Sleeping Beauty, ‘A dream is a wish your heart makes’ from Cinderella and ‘Feed the Birds’ Mary Poppins, this is magical music to enchant and live long in the memory.

Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts © All rights reserved.

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Rossini La Cenerentola Overture Rossini ‘Là del ciel nell'arcano profondo’ from La Cenerentola Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela Mozart ‘Non più andrai’ from The Marriage of Figaro Respighi La gallina & Il cucù from The Birds Stravinsky Berceuse & Finale from The Firebird Suite

TUESDAY 19 JUNE 2018 PADRAIC ROWAN

SUMMER LUNCHTIME

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA George Jackson conductor Padraic Rowan bass-baritone Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm

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Two bass-baritone favourites: Rossini’s bravura ‘Là del ciel nell’arcano profondo’ and Mozart’s deliciously comic ‘Non più andrai’. The sparkling romance of Rossini’s La Cenerentola Overture – his colourful re-working of the Cinderella legend – provides the perfect curtain-raiser for Respighi’s joyfully animated The Birds with its chirpy hen and surprisingly sophisticated cuckoo. The Swan of Tuonela is gossamerdelicate offering transcendental respite before the lullaby-like Berceuse and stirring Finale from The Firebird.

NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 1.05pm TICKETS: €12.00 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

FRIDAY 22 JUNE 2018 JOHN WILLIAMS

SUPERMAN

A JOHN WILLIAMS CELEBRATION

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Richard Kaufman conductor

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John Williams, the world’s greatest film composer, and a symphony orchestra at full throttle were made for each other. Together, they have created some of history’s most memorable soundtracks. From the lush, uilleann pipes-accented romance of Far and Away, Raiders of the Lost Ark’s haunting ‘Marion’s Theme’ and the soaring, gravity-free poetic grandeur of Superman to the kinetic chaos of the Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, expect thrills and spills aplenty. Anthemic themes from the Star Wars phenomenon, the primal pulse of Jaws, exhilarating wonder of E.T. and magical visitations from Sabrina and The Witches of Eastwick complete a thrilling salute to a movie master.

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Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Overture Tchaikovsky Preghiera from Mozartiana Suite No. 4 R. Strauss Morgen Mozart Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni non tardar from The Marriage of Figaro Massenet Le Cid Ballet Suite: Aragonaise, Navarraise Massenet ‘Je marche... Obéissons quand leur voix appelle’ from Manon Gounod ‘Je veux vivre’ from Romeo and Juliet Chabrier España

TUESDAY 26 JUNE 2018 SARAH BRADY

SUMMER LUNCHTIME

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA David Brophy conductor Sarah Brady soprano Presented by Liz Nolan, RTÉ lyric fm A gorgeous mix of soprano songs and arias: Richard Strauss’s haunting Morgen, Mozart’s bewitching reflection on a jealous eavesdropping husband, Gounod’s exultant waltz from Romeo and Juliet and Massenet’s ravishing hymn to love and youth. Orchestral thrills aplenty, too, with Mozart’s exhilarating The Marriage of Figaro Overture, Tchaikovsky’s devout ‘Prayer’ and blazing Spanish warmth and colour with the Le Cid Suite and the evocative España.

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NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 1.05pm TICKETS: €12.00 BOOKING: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso

FRIDAY 29 JUNE 2018

BETWEEN WORLDS THE MUSIC OF MÍCHEÁL Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN: EXPLORING THE SPACE BETWEEN TRADITIONS

RTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA David Brophy conductor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin piano Síle Denvir, Lillis Ó Laoire sean-nós singers Iarla Ó Lionáird (of The Gloaming)

Mel Mercier traditional percussion Pádraic Keane uilleann piper Liz Doherty, Katie Boyle, Zoë Conway, Aidan O’Donnell fiddles

Back by popular demand, following the 2017 sell-out, an evening with the internationally acclaimed performer and composer, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, and some outstanding musicians from traditional and world music. Programme includes works by Carolan, Vivaldi, Geminiani, Ó Riada, and Ó Súilleabháín, including Francesco Walks for traditional fiddles and orchestra, the first performance of Fill Arís - new orchestral sean-nós settings of the poetry of Seán Ó Riordáin, An Buachaill Caol Dubh and the all-time favourite, (must be more) Crispy.

Sin é do dhoras Dún Chaoin fé sholas an tráthnóna…

Behold your door Dún Chaoin under evening light…

Seán Ó Riordáin

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Image: Tomás Ó Cíobháin Bun Faille Dún Chaoin (Cliff End, Dunquin)

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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 WITH BRIAN BYRNE

BRIAN BYRNE

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

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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.

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