One hundred years to the day from the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the RT Concert Orchestra and Guy Barker mark the occasion with a night of Jazz Age classics (10 April, NCH). There's a Beatles night featuring Mark McGann (3 April, The Helix) and a David Bowie night featuring members of Bowie's own band (2 March, 3Arena), an Oscars night (26 February, NCH) and a celebration of Jeff Lynne's ELO (13 March, NCH).
John O'Conor joins the RT CO for the Beethoven piano concerto that launched his international career back in 1973 (6 March, NCH) and having given the Irish premiere of Radiohead, A Jazz Symphony in 2023, the RT CO brings back this incredible reimagining of Radiohead as arranged for jazz soloists and orchestra (20 March, NCH).
Full information below. Also below please see an amended listing for our 25 January concert at the NCH. Conductor Teresa Riveiro B hm is indisposed and has had to withdraw. Ukrainian conductor Margaryta Grynyvetska will conduct the programme, in what will be her Irish debut.
Tchaikovsky and Bruch
Saturday 25 January, 8pm, National Concert Hall
RT Concert Orchestra
Margaryta Grynyvetska conductor
Rosanne Philippens violin
Brahms Tragic Overture
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 Path tique'
An evening of famous romantic classics with two exciting young artists joining the RT Concert Orchestra for the first time: Ukrainian conductor Margaryta Grynyvetska, who made her debut as a conductor at the age of 15 and is tonight making her Irish debut, and Dutch star violinist Rosanne Philippens.
Philippens has said: My aim in a concert hall (or in any other place where music is heard), is to arouse feelings of togetherness. This is what makes music so essential: that wordless power of expression that brings people together.'
The concert begins with Brahms' powerful and dramatic Tragic Overture, and ends with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, one of the most profoundly emotional of all symphonies. First performed under the composer himself just nine days before his death, he called the Path tique' the best thing I ever composed or shall compose'.
Bruch's first violin concerto became so famous that it overshadowed the two he wrote after, to his own immense frustration. He wrote about fending off approaches from violinists wanting to play it: I have now become rude; and have told them: I cannot listen to this concerto any more - did I perhaps write just this one? Go away and once and for all play the other concertos, which are just as good, if not better.' However good the others are, nothing has ever replaced Bruch's first in audiences' affections, and that's the one with which Rosanne Philippens makes her RT Concert Orchestra debut.
Tickets: 15- 42.50
Presented by the RT Concert Orchestra
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Tuesday 11 February, 7.30pm, National Opera House, Wexford
Thursday 13 February, 7.30pm, University Concert Hall, Limerick
Saturday 15 February, 8pm, National Concert Hall, Dublin
RT Concert Orchestra
Stephen Bell conductor
Killian Donnelly and Juliette Crosbie vocalists
Immerse yourself in the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber with the RT Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Bell and acclaimed West End vocalists Killian Donnelly and Juliette Crosbie.
For over five decades, Webber's unforgettable melodies have enchanted audiences across the globe, earning him Tony Awards, Grammys, and an Academy Award . This programme, being performed in Wexford, Limerick and Dublin, features famous songs including Don't Cry for Me, Argentina , Any Dream Will Do, I Don't Know How to Love Him, Memory, Music of the Night, Love Changes Everything and All I Ask of You, as well as orchestral numbers including the Phantom Suite and Jellicle Ball.
Join us to celebrate one of the most enduring figures in musical theatre for over five decades.
Programme
Jellicle Ball (Cats)
Memory (Cats)
Love Changes Everything (Aspects of Love)
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina (Evita)
Till I Hear You Sing (Love Never Dies)
The Last Man in My Life (Tell Me on a Sunday)
Symphonic Suite (The Phantom of the Opera)
Entr'acte (Sunset Boulevard)
As If We Never Said Goodbye (Sunset Boulevard)
No Matter What (Whistle Down the Wind)
Close Every Door (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Any Dream Will Do (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
All the Love I Have (The Beautiful Game)
I Don't Know how to Love Him (Jesus Christ Superstar)
The Music of the Night (The Phantom of the Opera)
Think of Me (The Phantom of the Opera)
All I Ask of You (The Phantom of the Opera)
Devised by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber is presented by arrangement with The Really Useful Group Limited. Presented by the RT Concert Orchestra.
Tickets
Wexford: 22- 44 (returns only)
Limerick: 20- 35
Dublin: 15- 42.50 (returns only)
A Night at the Oscars
Wednesday 26 February, 8pm, National Concert Hall
RT Concert Orchestra
Stephen Bell conductor
Katie Birtill vocalist
Presented by RT 's Se n Rocks
Join the RT Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Bell, vocalist Katie Bertil and presenter Se n Rocks for an evening of Hollywood's most celebrated music, from films that have received Academy Awards or nominations. Revel in the magic of evergreen themes alongside recent favourites that have captured hearts and critical acclaim alike.
With Gladiator II fresh in the memory, the orchestra will revisit the power of Hans Zimmer's unforgettable score to the original Gladiator, the Best Picture-winning epic that captured hearts with its haunting melodies and rousing themes. Zimmer's score to Pirates of the Caribbean also features.
It will be no surprise that John Williams is strongly represented, wit
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One hundred years to the day from the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the RT Concert Orchestra and Guy Barker mark the occasion with a night of Jazz Age classics (10 April, NCH). There's a Beatles night featuring Mark McGann (3 April, The Helix) and a David Bowie night featuring members of Bowie's own band (2 March, 3Arena), an Oscars night (26 February, NCH) and a celebration of Jeff Lynne's ELO (13 March, NCH).
