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LUNCHTIME CONCERTSTUESDAYS 1.05pm, 9 JUNE – 21 JULY 2015

NATIONAL CONCERT HALL

ALL TICKETS

€12

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CHABRIERGwendoline Overture

PIERNÉ Sérénade

MASSENET ‘Va! Laisse couler mes larmes’ from Werther

GLUCK ‘Che farò senza Euridice?’ from Orfeo ed Euridice

FAURÉ Shylock Nocturne

BIZET Seguidilla from Carmen

DONIZETTI ‘O mio Fernando’ from La favorita

SAINT-SAËNS Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila

TUESDAY 9 JUNE / 1.05pmRTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES 2015

Multi-award-winning mezzo soprano Raphaela Mangan sings favourite arias by four ofopera’s most memorable characters: Massenet’s Charlotte (the sorrowful ‘Va! Laissecouler mes larmes’), Donizetti’s ill-fated royal mistress Leonora (the wrenching ‘O mio Fernando’), Bizet’s Carmen with her coquettish Seguidilla and Gluck’sOrpheus with the sublime ‘Che farò senza Euridice?’ Deluxe French orchestralrarities – Chabrier’s dramatic Gwendoline Overture, Pierné’s sumptuous Sérénade and Fauré’s glowingly beautiful Nocturne – and the exhilarating Bacchanale fromSaint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila add colour, grandeur and pathos of their own.

ALL TICKETS €12BOOKING 01 417 0000www.nch.ie or www.rte.ie/nso

Broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm as part of Niall Carroll's Classical Daytime

Robert Houlihan conductor Raphaela Mangan mezzo soprano

Presented by Niall Carroll, RTÉ lyric fm



American style and swagger is to the fore in a rousing programme as wedance along with the era-defining music of Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer and abrace of infectious Ragtime classics, and march to the thrilling pomp of JohnPhilip Sousa’s stirring Semper Fidelis and anthemic The Stars and Stripes Forever.Trombonist Clara Daly Donnellan – youngest-ever winner of the RDS MusicBursary in 2014 – makes her RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra debut withSousa soloist and bandleader Arthur Pryor’s lyrical concert waltz Thoughts ofLove and the evocative Romance by Weber, whose Der Freischütz Overtureprovides a magical curtain raiser.


WEBER Der Freischütz Overture WEBER Romance JOPLINThe EntertainerJOPLINMaple Leaf RagJOPLINThe Ragtime DancePRYORThoughts of LoveSOUSASemper Fidelis SOUSAThe Stars and Stripes Forever

Gavin Maloney conductor Clara Daly Donnellan trombone 2014 RDS Music Bursary Winner




ROSSINI The Silken Ladder Overture

PUCCINI ‘Si, mi chiamano Mimì’ from La bohème

PUCCINI ‘Donde lieta usci’ from La bohème

PONCHIELLI Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda

PUCCINI ‘Vissi d’arte’ from Tosca

PUCCINI ‘O mio babbino caro’ from Gianni Schicchi

VERDI Triumphal March and Ballet from Aida

Courtney Lewis conductor Mairead Buicke soprano



Soprano Mairead Buicke leads a lyrical lunchtime of Italian operatic favouritesto pull on the heartstrings and quicken the pulse. Poet of the heart Puccini is to the fore with the blissful ‘Si, mi chiamano Mimì’ and tender ‘Donde lietausci’ from La bohème. Tosca’s ‘Vissi d’arte’ provides heart-rending drama of its own, ‘O mio babbino caro’ is one of the most sublime arias in all opera.Making a welcome return, the exciting young Belfast-born conductorCourtney Lewis (Assistant Conductor with the New York Philharmonic)promises emotion and drama aplenty in Rossini’s animated Overture to TheSilken Ladder, Ponchielli’s effervescent Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda) andexhilarating Triumphal March and Ballet from Verdi’s Aida.




BERLIOZBeatrice and Benedict Overture

FRANCK Symphonic Variations

RAVELMother Goose Suite

Ciaran McAuley conductor Máire Carroll piano2012 RDS Music Bursary Winner



The attractive, love-lit Overture to Berlioz’s late Shakespearean comedyBeatrice and Benedict provides the perfect appetiser for Franck’s mightySymphonic Variations, a work of challenging virtuosic demands for bothsoloist – 2012 RDS Music Bursary recipient Máire Carroll (first and onlypianist to win this prestigious award) – and conductor – the MalaysianPhilharmonic’s rising star Ciarán McAuley. Ravel’s charming and colourfulballet suite Mother Goose brings an array of fairy-tale characters vividly to life to complete a trio of delightful French fancies.




BERLIOZ Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust

RACHMANINOVVocalise

DEBUSSYClair de Lune (orch. Stokowski)

RAVEL Tzigane

LISZTHungarian Rhapsody No. 2

BRAHMSHungarian Dance No. 1

JOHANN STRAUSS II Éljen á Magyar! Polka

Gavin Maloney conductor Elaine Clark violin


TUESDAY 7 JULY / 1.05pmRTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES 2015

Spend lunch in the romantic surrounds of a gypsy encampment deep in theHungarian plains. Heralded by Berlioz’s stirring Hungarian March, the RTÉNational Symphony Orchestra’s co-leader Elaine Clark steps out of theorchestra for Ravel’s ecstatic Tzigane and Rachmaninov’s haunting Vocalise.Gavin Maloney conducts Debussy’s hypnotic Clair de Lune, a thrillingHungarian rhapsody and bracing dance by Liszt and Brahms, with Strauss’srousing polka Éljen à Magyar! a fast gallop to speed you back to work.




SCHUBERT Rosamunde Overture

MOZART Horn Concerto No. 4

JOHANN STRAUSS II By the Beautiful Blue Danube

SUPPÉ Light Cavalry Overture

Conor Palliser conductor Bethan Watkeys horn

Presented by George Hamilton, RTÉ lyric fm

TUESDAY 21 JULY / 1.05pmRTÉ NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASUMMER LUNCHTIME SERIES 2015

Schubert’s lively, lyrically-accented, drama-filled Rosamunde Overture sets the scene for the spirited and delightfully bouyant Fourth Horn Concerto by Mozart, its characterful virtuoso solo horn performed by the RTÉ NationalSymphony Orchestra’s own Bethan Watkeys (‘Watkey’s playing is inviting asshe handles the complexities of Mozart’s music with confidence’ Golden Plec).With its captivating and hypnotic melodies, Strauss’s By the Beautiful BlueDanube provides an elegant diversion before the exhilarating martial pomp ofSuppé’s Light Cavalry Overture with a vivacious horn to the fore.




Following the great success of our 2014 movie music concert with Dave Fanning, Dave returns to present an evening of golden musical memories from the silver screen’s greatest composers.

Iconic scores from legendary Oscar winners to modernclassics, including Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, Out of Africa, Moulin Rouge and West Side Story;symphonic spectacle with Star Wars, Gladiator and Superman; stirring themes with The Magnificent Seven,Pirates of the Caribbean and, of course, James Bond; and Broadway pizazz ranging from Chicago to ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’.

As the song says, ‘That’s Entertainment’!

Friday 24 July 2015, 8pmNational Concert Hall

Tickets: €15, €25, €32, €40(Conc. €13.50, €22.50, €28.80, €36)Booking: 01 417 0000 / www.nch.ie / www.rte.ie/nso


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