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RTÉ National 2017 Symphony 2018 Orchestra Contents Page 02 A welcome note 04 At a glance: RTÉ NSO 2017–2018 Season 08 Concerts and events: 8 September 2017–25 May 2018 47 Single concert ticket prices 48 Main Season: Package rewards 49 How and when to book 50 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra: Profile 52 National Concert Hall Seating Plan RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Main Season and other concerts are broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm RTÉ National 2017 Symphony 2018 Orchestra Patron: Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland A welcome note It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 2017/2018 concert season during which we celebrate the orchestra’s 70th anniversary. From the start, the Irish Free State broadcaster 2RN (later Raidió Éireann) always supported a music ensemble. The first manifestation of this commitment was the ‘Clery’s Instrumental Trio’ which by 1948 had grown into a new orchestra. 02 Under the baton of Jean Martinon, and led by Florentine violinist Renzo Marchionni, the first concert by the Raidió Éireann Symphony Orchestra took place at the Phoenix Hall on February 14th 1948. Since then the orchestra has continued to grow in reputation to create a unique place for classical music within contemporary Irish culture. At the core of each performance is you, the orchestra’s loyal audience. We value your support and always welcome feedback on our programmes and performances. We hope you enjoy and continue to support your national orchestra. This season we are honoured to welcome the hugely talented Nathalie Stutzmann as our Principal Guest Conductor. Nathalie conducts five concerts, culminating with a performance of Beethoven Symphony No. 9 « At the core of each ‘Choral’ for our season finale. She also conducts the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir in Mozart’s Requiem in the performance is you, autumn. the orchestra’s loyal audience.… » We are proud to present many exciting and multi- talented artists to perform extraordinary music this season. Our opening Prelude concert puts a focus on Irish music when internationally acclaimed composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin makes his début with the orchestra. Later in the season, we also present a new Concerto for Organ by Gerald Barry, RTÉ’s Composer-in-Residence, and a first performance of the complete Piano Concerto by Deirdre Gribbin, The Binding of the Years. On the centenary of his birth, we pay homage to great American composer Leonard Bernstein, with a performance of his Chichester Psalms, conducted by Joana Carneiro. In January, conductor Alexander Shelley presents this extraordinary composer’s Overture to West Side Story and Prelude, Fugue and Riffs. Other season highlights include conductors Thomas Adès and Jaime Martin, and Carlos Kalmar conducting the unstoppable Storm Large in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins; guest soloist Alexander Toradze performs Shostakovich’s second piano concerto, Khatia Buniatishvili plays Prokofiev’s second piano concerto, and Alexander Bernstein and Fiachra Garvey join forces for Poulenc’s Double piano concerto. I hope we bring you many memorable moments of music throughout the season. Best wishes, Anthony Long General Manager, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra 03 THE SEASON ATA GLANCE DATE TIME EVENT COMPOSER(S) Fri 8 Sep 7.30pm ELVER GLEAMS Ó Súilleabháin Fri 22 Sep 7.00pm CULTURE NIGHT Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Hindson Fri 22 Sep 8.45pm CULTURE NIGHT Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Hindson Fri 29 Sep 7.30pm NATHALIE STUTZMANN CONDUCTS Brahms, Beethoven, Prokofiev Fri 06 Oct 7.30pm HARDENBERGER: SINFONIETTA Copland, Barber, Stravinsky, Larsson, Janácekv Fri 13 Oct 7.30pm BUNIATISHVILI PLAYS PROKOFIEV Bach, Prokofiev, Brahms Fri 20 Oct 7.30pm PSALMS AND REQUIEM Bernstein, Elgar, Duruflé Fri 27 Oct 7.30pm SAINT-SAENS CELLO CONCERTO Stanford, Saint-Saëns, Suk Fri 03 Nov 7.30pm EROICA Brahms, Dvorák,v Beethoven Fri 10 Nov 7.30pm OSORIO PLAYS RAVEL Falla, Ravel, Nielsen Fri 24 Nov 7.30pm SHOSTAKOVICH FIVE Beethoven, Shostakovich Fri 01 Dec 7.30pm NATHALIE STUTZMANN CONDUCTS R Strauss, Mozart Fri 14 Dec 7.30pm CHRISTMAS GALA Various Mon 01 Jan 3.30pm NEW YEAR'S DAY Various Fri 05 Jan 7.30pm AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION Ellington, Gershwin, Bernstein, Joplin Fri 12 Jan 7.30pm SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE Debussy, Bartók, Berlioz Fri 19 Jan 7.30pm PETRUSHKA Rachmaninoff, Dean, Stravinsky Fri 26 Jan 7.30pm TORADZE PLAYS SHOSTAKOVICH Petrassi, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky Fri 02 Feb 7.30pm RAMEAU AND MOZART Rameau, Mozart Fri 09 Feb 7.30pm PROKOFIEV FIVE Debussy, Poulenc, Prokofiev Fri 16 Feb 7.30pm 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Wagner, Gribbin, Prokofiev Fri 23 Feb 7.30pm NATHALIE STUTZMANN CONDUCTS Elgar, Beethoven Fri 09 Mar 7.30pm SIBELIUS FIVE Nielsen, Ravel, Sibelius Fri 23 Mar 7.30pm POGOSTKINA PLAYS KHACHATURIAN Copland, Khachaturian, Shostakovich Fri 30 Mar 1.30pm RTÉ CONTEMPO QUARTET To be announced Fri 30 Mar 3.30pm ST JOHN’S PASSION FOR GOOD FRIDAY Bach Fri 13 April 7.30pm BEETHOVEN SEVEN Ravel, Korngold, Beethoven Fri 20 April 7.30pm NATHALIE STUTZMANN CONDUCTS Rachmaninoff, Brahms Fri 27 April 7.30pm SEVEN DEADLY SINS Prangcharoen, Weill, Schubert, Ravel Fri 04 May 7.30pm SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS Stravinsky, Barry, Lutosławski Fri 11 May 7.30pm A HERO'S LIFE Shostakovich, Strauss Fri 18 May 7.30pm TRAGIC SYMPHONY Mozart, Mahler Fri 25 May 7.30pm NATHALIE STUTZMANN CONDUCTS Brahms, Beethoven MAIN SEASON CONCERT PRELUDE/INTERLUDE 04 RTÉ National 2017 Symphony 2018 Orchestra CONDUCTOR GUEST ARTIST(S) PAGE - Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin 08 Robert Trevino Paul Lewis 09 Robert Trevino Paul Lewis 09 Nathalie Stutzmann Veronika Eberle 10 Håkan Hardenberger Roland Pöntinen 12 Joshua Weilerstein Khatia Buniatishvili 13 Joana Carneiro RTÉ Philharmonic Choir 14 Case Scaglione Richard Harwood 16 Miguel Harth-Bedoya Eldbjørg Hemsing 17 Carlos Miguel Prieto Jorge Federico Osorio 18 Nikolaj Znaider - 19 Nathalie Stutzmann RTÉ Philharmonic, Flavin, Mingardo, Tritschler, Kosavic 20 Robert Houlihan Fatma Said, William Davenport 21 Neil Thomson Claudia Boyle 23 Alexander Shelley Peter Jablonski 24 Stanislav Kochanovsky Valeriy Sokolov 25 Olari Elts Brett Dean 26 Daniele Rustioni Alexander Toradze 27 Harry Bicket Anna Devin 28 Duncan Ward Alexander Bernstein, Fiachra Garvey 30 Tomás Netopil Finghin Collins 31 Nathalie Stutzmann Alban Gerhardt 33 Jaime Martin Javier Perianes 34 Clemens Schuldt Alina Pogostkina 35 - RTÉ Contempo Quartet 37 Nicholas Kraemer RTÉ Philharmonic Choir 37 Ben Gernon Carolin Widmann 38 Nathalie Stutzmann - 39 Carlos Kalmar Storm Large 40 Thomas Adès Thomas Trotter 41 Christian Vasquez Narek Hakhnazaryan 42 John Storgårds Nathalia Milstein 43 Nathalie Stutzmann RTÉ Philharmonic Choir, Siurina, Jovanovic, Linden, Kosavic 45 05 PAUL HERRIOTT RTÉ lyric fm, presenting Main Season concerts live from the stage. 0606 RTÉ National 2017 Symphony 2018 Orchestra Save your money BUY A CONCERT PACKAGE DISCOUNTS UP TO 30% SEE PAGE 48 07 FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER PRELUDE MÍCHEÁL Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN MÍCHEÁL ELVER GLEAMS A celebration of the music of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin Join Mícheál for this special concert of his music featuring some newly composed and newly scored pieces along with several of his classic compositions, including a new configuration of sean-nós, fusing the traditional style with the orchestral tapestry of the RTÉ NSO. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin piano CONCERT 7.30pm 08 TICKETS from €20. See page 47. Find out more at rte.ie/nso FRIDAY 22 SEPTEMBER INTERLUDE PAUL LEWIS PAUL CULTURE NIGHT TCHAIKOVSKY FREE EVENT Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture / 19’ GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 / 30’ HINDSON Speed / 16’ Robert Trevino conductor Paul Lewis piano EARLY EVENING RECITAL IN THE JOHN FIELD ROOM RTÉ Cór na nÓg choral director Mary Amond O’Brien EARLY EVENING RECITALS 6.00pm & 8.15pm / MAIN CONCERTS 7.00pm & 8.45pm TICKETS FREE See page 47. Find out more at rte.ie/nso 09 RTÉ NSO Principal Guest Conductor NATHALIE STUTZMANN conducts 10 FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER MAIN SEASON CONCERT VERONIKA EBERLE VERONIKA BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 / 38’ BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 / 26’ PROKOFIEV Classical Symphony, Op. 25 (Symphony No. 1) / 14’ Nathalie Stutzmann conductor Veronika Eberle violin CONCERT 7.30pm TICKETS from €15. See page 47. Find out more at rte.ie/nso 11 FRIDAY 06 OCTOBER MAIN SEASON CONCERT COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man / 3’ BARBER Adagio for Strings / 8’ STRAVINSKY Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra / 17’ STRAVINSKY Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947) / 12’ L.E. LARSSON Adagio for Strings / 6’ JANÁCEK Sinfonietta / 23’ Håkan Hardenberger conductor Roland Pöntinen piano CONCERT 7.30pm 12 TICKETS from €15. See page 47. Find out more at rte.ie/nso FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER MAIN SEASON CONCERT JOSHUA WEILERSTEIN JOSHUA KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI BACH (ARR. BENJAMIN) Canon and Fugue (from the Art of Fugue) / 7’ PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 / 31’ BRAHMS (ARR. SCHOENBERG) Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 / 43’ Joshua Weilerstein conductor Khatia Buniatishvili piano CONCERT 7.30pm TICKETS from €15. See page 47. Find out more at rte.ie/nso 13 14 FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER MAIN SEASON CONCERT JOANA CARNEIRO JOANA BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms / 19’ ELGAR Sea Pictures / 23’ DURUFLÉ Requiem / 45’ Joana Carneiro conductor RTÉ Philharmonic Choir chorus master: Mark Hindley CONCERT 7.30pm TICKETS from €25.50. See page 47. Find out more at rte.ie/nso 15 FRIDAY 27 OCTOBER MAIN SEASON CONCERT STANFORD Irish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 78 / 12’ SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 / 19’ SUK Symphony No. 2 in C minor (Asrael), Op. 27 / 58’ Case Scaglione conductor Richard Harwood cello CONCERT 7.30pm TICKETS from €15. See page 47. Find out more at rte.ie/nso 16 Also in University Concert Hall LIMERICK on Thursday 26 October CASE SCAGLIONE FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER MAIN SEASON CONCERT DANIEL HOPE DANIEL ELDBJØRG HEMSING BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture / 10’ DVORÁK Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.
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    BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH CONCERTOS FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT A Discography of CDs & LPs Prepared by Michael Herman Composers I-P JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962) Born in Bowdon, Cheshire. He studied at the Royal College of Music with Stanford and simultaneously worked as a professional organist. He continued his career as an organist after graduation and also held a teaching position at the Royal College. Being also an excellent pianist he composed a lot of solo works for this instrument but in addition to the Piano Concerto he is best known for his for his orchestral pieces, especially the London Overture, and several choral works. Piano Concerto in E flat major (1930) Mark Bebbington (piano)/David Curti/Orchestra of the Swan ( + Bax: Piano Concertino) SOMM 093 (2009) Colin Horsley (piano)/Basil Cameron/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra EMI BRITISH COMPOSERS 352279-2 (2 CDs) (2006) (original LP release: HMV CLP1182) (1958) Eileen Joyce (piano)/Sir Adrian Boult/London Philharmonic Orchestra (rec. 1949) ( + The Forgotten Rite and These Things Shall Be) LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LPO 0041 (2009) Eileen Joyce (piano)/Leslie Heward/Hallé Orchestra (rec. 1942) ( + Moeran: Symphony in G minor) DUTTON LABORATORIES CDBP 9807 (2011) (original LP release: HMV TREASURY EM290462-3 {2 LPs}) (1985) Piers Lane (piano)/David Lloyd-Jones/Ulster Orchestra ( + Legend and Delius: Piano Concerto) HYPERION CDA67296 (2006) John Lenehan (piano)/John Wilson/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ( + Legend, First Rhapsody, Pastoral, Indian Summer, A Sea Idyll and Three Dances) NAXOS 8572598 (2011) MusicWeb International Updated: August 2020 British & Commonwealth Concertos I-P Eric Parkin (piano)/Sir Adrian Boult/London Philharmonic Orchestra ( + These Things Shall Be, Legend, Satyricon Overture and 2 Symphonic Studies) LYRITA SRCD.241 (2007) (original LP release: LYRITA SRCS.36 (1968) Eric Parkin (piano)/Bryden Thomson/London Philharmonic Orchestra ( + Legend and Mai-Dun) CHANDOS CHAN 8461 (1986) Kathryn Stott (piano)/Sir Andrew Davis/BBC Symphony Orchestra (rec.
  • PDF (Volume 2)

    PDF (Volume 2)

    Durham E-Theses A.J. Potter (1918-1980): The career and creative achievement of an Irish composer in social and cultural context Zuk, Patrick How to cite: Zuk, Patrick (2007) A.J. Potter (1918-1980): The career and creative achievement of an Irish composer in social and cultural context, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2911/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 Chapter4 Choral works with orchestra 4.1 Introduction n view of Potter's early training as a chorister, it is perhaps surprising to find that choral music comprises a comparatively small proportion of his output: I one might have expected him to follow up his early Missa Brevis with other substantial choral works of various kinds. The fact that he did not can undoubtedly be explained by the circumstances of Irish musical life at the period: in bleak contrast to Britain, not only were good choirs few and far between, but there was little evidence of interest in choral music throughout the country at large.