Join the National Symphony Orchestra for a night of music to remember, featuring Mozart's darkest and grandest piano concerto, an epic, tongue-in-cheek musical autobiography, and the eagerly anticipated world premiere of To Come Back to Earth by young Irish composer Emma O’Halloran - watch above from 7.30 pm on Friday, March 11th, and view your digital programme here.
To Come Back to Earth seeks to give voice to the many and mixed emotions experienced over the past two years, from anxiety and grief to hope and possibility, and to consider how much we have changed, 'what will it feel like when we come back to Earth?’
Of all Mozart’s mighty Piano Concertos, No. 24 is the most imposing, its dark, menacing atmospheres sounding like rumbling storm clouds lit up by brilliant lighting flashes on the piano. Renowned Irish pianist and ‘a true poet’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) of the instrument, Hugh Tinney takes the lead for a memorable journey through baleful shadows and despair to end in a poignant flourish against the dying of the light.
A tall tale of filmic dimensions, Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) is one of the last great flowerings of musical romanticism. Quoting from 30 of his earlier works, there’s a joyfully self-mythologizing quality to its faux heroics and stirring Technicolor drama. A work of sparkling vim and vivacity teeming with incident and colour, it boasts moments of breath-taking beauty and is rightly regarded as one of music’s greatest self-portraits.
Programme
Emma O'Halloran - To Come Back to Earth, World Premiere, NSO commission
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 24, K.491
Strauss - Ein Heldenleben
National Symphony Orchestra
with Jaime Martín, conductor and Hugh Tinney, piano
Presented by Paul Herriott, RTÉ Lyric fm
