Monday to Friday, 8 - 10 pm
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)
Monday 9th February
Paul Herriott brings us to the Spanish Hall Castle in Prague for a concert with the great cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Stravinsky: Italian Suite for Cello and Piano on the Theme from ‘Pulcinella’ (1932)
Villa-Lobos: Three Works
Dvorak: Romantic Pieces, Op 75 (1887) (arr. for cello and piano)
Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in D minor, Op.108 (arr. for cello and piano)
Mariano: Cristal, samba-choro for piano (arr. for cello and piano)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Kathryn Stott (piano)
Tuesday 10th February
This evening’s concert comes from Copenhagen, DR Concert House. Rudolf Buchbinder plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.37
Strauss: Paraphrase, transcription
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Wednesday 11th February
The Konzerthaus, Berlin is the venue for tonight’s all Ravel programme concert with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Ravel: Piano Concerto In G
Ravel: Pavane for une infant defunte
Ravel: Valse nobles et sentimentales
Ravel: La Valse
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Marek Janowski (conductor)
Thursday 12th February
Paul brings us to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival for a four hand piano concert with Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobsen Fleisher.
Bach: Schafe konnen sicher weiden from Cantata BWV 208
Takacs: Toccata and Fugue for the Left Hand, Op. 56
Kirchner: L.H. for piano left-hand
Bach: Chaconne from Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004
Schubert: Fantasy in F minor, D.940 arr for piano four hands
Ravel: La Valse
Kern: All the Things You are
Leon Fleisher (piano)
Katherine Jacobsen Fleisher (piano)
Friday 13th February
Paul Herriott presents tonight’s concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ ConTempo Quartet live from the National Concert Hall. London Symphony Orchestra principal flute Adam Walker gave the 2014 premiere of Huw Watkins’ Flute Concerto in what one critic described as ‘a rollercoaster ride from beginning to end’ (The Guardian). RTÉ’s new resident string ensemble, the RTÉ ConTempo Quartet, joins the orchestra for Elgar’s sumptuous showcase for strings, the Introduction and Allegro, composed in 1905 for the newly-formed LSO. Brahms’ First Symphony is a work of mighty scale and scope justifying its description as ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’.
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
Watkins: Flute Concerto (Irish premiere)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Adam Walker (flute)
RTÉ ConTempo Quartet
Damian Iorio (conductor)
