The Lyric Concert with Paul Herriott Thursday 1 May 2014
Bringing Composing the Island to an end, tonight at 8pm Paul Herriott presents ‘Out of the Cradle: A Choral Finale’. Having traversed a century of music in Ireland, the closing choral concert brings Composing the Island back full circle, with two works from the 1920s from both parts of Ireland. Join a host of performers – the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Philharmonic Choir, Mark Hindley (conductor/chorus master), Helena Wood (leader), Claudia Boyle (soprano), Ben McAteer (baritone) and Dean Power (tenor). The concert begins with Norman Hay’s The Wind Among The Reeds (1921), his setting of a collection of Yeats poems for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra. And to conclude, Rhoda Coghill’s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking from 1923 written for tenor, choir and orchestra. It’s a setting of the Walt Whitman text which begins, “Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot...” Join us live from 8pm.
The Lyric Concert with Paul Herriott
Paul Herriott presents tonight's concert with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra from Salle Pleyel, Paris
Composing the Island: A Century of Music in Ireland 1916-2016, September 7th - 25th
A new centenary project launched by Heather Humphreys (Minister for Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts & the Gaeltacht), Composing the Island presents 29 concerts of orchestral, choral, instrumental, song and chamber music by Irish composers written between 1916 and 2016. For more information visit www.nch.ie/Online/Composing-the-Island. Composing the Island: A century of music in Ireland 1916-2016 is sponsored by Bord na Móna and presented by RTÉ and the National Concert Hall. In celebration of this wonderful project, RTÉ lyric fm will broadcast a host of live performances, recorded concerts and documentaries from the lyric archives, exploring the works and lives of Irish composers.
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Wednesday 7th September, 8pm
Charles Villiers Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No. 4 The Fisherman of Lough Neagh and What He Saw (1914)
Norman Hay: Dunluce (1921)
Ina Boyle: Symphony No. 1 Glencree (1927)
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)
Friday 9th September, 8pm
Howard Ferguson Partita for Orchestra (1936)
Frederick May Symphonic Ballad (1937)
Hamilton Harty The Children of Lir (1938)
Aloys Fleischmann The Four Masters (1944)
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Máire Flavin (soprano)
Gavin Maloney (conductor)
Wednesday 14th September, 8pm
Brian Boydell: In Memoriam Mahatma Gandhi, Op. 30 (1948)
Seán Ó Riada: Hercules Dux Ferrariae (1957)
John Larchet: By the Waters of Moyle (1957)
Éamonn Ó Gallchobhair: Waltz from Nocturne sa Chearnóig (1959)
Thomas C. Kelly: Fantasia for Harp & Orchestra, on two Irish Airs (O’Carolan’s Lament and The Heather Glen) (1960)
Noel Kelehan: Cuchulainn’s Lament (1967)
Gerard Victory: In Memoriam James Connolly (1966)
A. J. Potter: Sinfonia de Profundis (1969)
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
David Brophy (Conductor)
Friday 16th September, 8pm
Seóirse Bodley: Configurations (1967)
Roger Doyle: Four Sketches for Orchestra (1969)
Gerard Victory: Miroirs (1969)
Raymond Deane: Embers (1973/1978 rev. 2015)
Raymond Deane: Sphinxes (1972 rev. 2015)
Seóirse Bodley: A small white cloud drifts over Ireland (1975)
Gerald Barry: From The Intelligence Park (1986)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Gerhard Markson (conductor)
Wednesday 21st September, 8pm
John Buckley: Taller than Roman Spears (1977 rev. 1986)
John Kinsella: Symphony No. 3 Joie de Vivre (1990)
Kevin O’Connell: North (1998)
Siobhán Cleary: Alchemy (2001)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Gavin Maloney (conductor)
Friday 23rd September, 8pm
Deirdre Gribbin: Venus Blazing (2001)
Donnacha Dennehy: Crane (2009)
Stephen Gardner: NEVER…NEVER...NEVER... (2003)
Brian Irvine: Big Daddy, Motorhead (2009)
Andrew Hamilton: C (2016) *world premiere/RTÉ commission
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Elaine Clark (violin)
Gavin Maloney (conductor)
Sunday 25th September, 8-9pm (Closing Concert)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir
Mark Hindley conductor/chorus master
Norman Hay The Wind Among The Reeds (1921)
Rhoda Coghill Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking (1923)
Music Played on the Show
Title: Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36
Composer: Bartok, Bela
Performer(s): Tedi Papavrami, Violin, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Album: Recorded at Salle Pleyel, Paris (Broadcast 01/05/14) EBU SM/14/01/11/12
Duration: 22:04
Title: Fugue, From 'Sonata For Violin' (Encore)
Composer: Bartok, Bela
Performer(s): Tedi Papavrami, Violin
Album: Recorded at Salle Pleyel, Paris (Broadcast 01/05/14) EBU SM/14/01/11/12
Duration: 4:14
Title: Songs My Mother Taught Me -- Gypsy Melodies Op. 55
Composer: Dvorak, Antonin
Performer(s): Magdalena Kozena (Soprano), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Album: Magdalena Kozena - Songs My Mother Taught Me - Malcolm Martineau Deutsche Grammophon 477 6665
Duration: 2:41
Title: Five Pieces For Cello And Piano
Composer: Rachmaninov, Sergei
Performer(s): Lynn Harrell, Cello, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano
Album: LCON-THU280110 (Recordno: 473 807-2) Not Available 473 807-2
Duration: 22:42
The Lyric Concert with Paul Herriott
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Presenter: Paul Herriott
Producer: Gail Henry
Production Co-ordinator: Ian McGlynn