Monday to Friday, 8 - 10 pm
Monday 26th January
Paul Herriott brings us to Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris for Berlioz Romeo et Juliette, Op.17
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Op.17
Marianne Crebassa (mezzo)
Paolo Fanale (tenor)
Alex Esposito (bass)
Radio France Chorus
Orchestre National de France
Daniele Gatti (conductor)
Tuesday 27th January
Tonight’s chamber music concert comes from the Hindsgavl Festival on the Island of Funen, Denmark
Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor, L.135
Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119
Rachmaninov: Vocalise, OP.34/14
Massenet: Meditation from Thais
Gautier Capucon (cello)
Yuja Wang (piano)
Wednesday 28th January
Paul Herriot brings us to the Ruhr Piano Festival in Essen this evening for a concert featuring Marc-Andre Hamelin
R Strauss: Symphonic Fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten
R Strauss: Burlesque in D minor
Chopin: Waltz No.6 in D flat, Op.64/1 ‘Minute Waltz’
R Strauss: Symphonia domestica in F, Op.53
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Andris Nelsons (conductor)
Thursday 29th January
Tonight Paul Herriott presents pianist Benjamin Grosvenor in a concert recorded at the Cadogan Hall, London
Chopin: Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Mompou: Paisajes
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Gounod: Waltz from Faust
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Friday 30th January
Paul Herriott presents tonight’s concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra live from the National Concert Hall.
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Organ
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Craig Ogden (guitar)
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)
Monday February 2nd
Paul Herriott brings us a very special Chamber music concert featuring Julian Rachlin and friends in association with the RIAM and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. Tonight’s concert was recorded in Studio 1, RTE Radio Centre in 2014.
Brahms: Piano Quintet
Hugh Tinney, piano; Julian Rachlin and Fionnuala Hunt, violins, Simon Aspell, viola and Christopher Marwood, cello
Beethoven: Septet
Julian Rachlin, violin; Simon Aspell, viola; Christopher Marwood, cello; Dominic Dudley, double bass; John Finucane, clarinet; Michael Jones, bassoon and Fergus O'Carroll,horn
Tuesday February 3rd
Tonight’s concert presented by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra was recorded at the Musiikkitalo (Helsinki Music Centre). The concert features music by Sibelius, Whittall and Strauss.
Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E flat, Op.82
Whittall: The Architecture of Happiness
R Strauss: Final Scene from Salome, Op.54
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Nina Stemme (soprano)
Hanny Lintu (conductor)
Wednesday February 4th
Tonight’s concert comes from the Salle Pleyel, Paris Vasily Petrenko conducts the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Szymanowksi: Violin Concerto No.1
Bach: Suite No.1
Mahler : Symphony No.7 in E minor
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Baiba Skride (violin)
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Thursday February 5th
Alexandre Bloch conducts the Northern Sinfonia in tonight’s concert from Sage, Gateshead
Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K.492
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C, Op.56
Bruch: Concerto for Clarinet and Violin in E minor, Op.88
Prokfiev: Symphony No.1 in D, Op.25 ‘Classical’
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Alexandra Soum (violin)
Jakob Koranyi (cello)
Alexandra Dariescu (piano)
Dionysis Grammenos (clarinet)
Lise Berthaud (viola)
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)
Friday February 6th
Paul Herriott presents the RTE National Symphony Orchestra live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Mahler: Blumine
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C, The Great
RTE National Symphony Orchestra Kurt Nikkanen (violin)
Patrik Ringborg (conductor)
