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ORCHESTRA
It’s all about the music and you

Front cover image: Angela Gheorghiu, soprano

 A message from the
National Symphony A message from
Orchestra the National
I am delighted to introduce you to the first full
Concert Hall
season in two years of your National Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus at the National Concert Hall.

We approach it with a sense of joy and optimism, As the National Cultural Institution for music in Ireland, the National Concert Hall
marking as it does our first full season in over two is proud to see Ireland’s largest professional orchestra, the National Symphony
years, our return to performances outside of Dublin, Orchestra (NSO), present its first full season at the NCH after almost two years.
our seventy-fifth birthday and, of particular and great pleasure, a continuing Indeed this will be the NSO’s first full season at the NCH since its formal transition
relationship with Chief Conductor Jaime Martín for a further two seasons. to the NCH earlier this year, making this a particularly significant occasion for
music in Ireland.
We are thrilled that Jaime will lead seven programmes in nine performances,
including performances in Cork and Waterford. World-renowned artists such as Building on a tradition of celebrating musical excellence, the NSO’s 2022/2023
Angela Gheorghiu, Danielle de Niese, Maxim Vengerov and Viktoria Mullova season will no doubt reignite and excite fans of classical and symphonic music
(making her long-awaited debut with the NSO) will be heard alongside a raft of with performances by some of the world’s leading soloists from one of the most
established, emerging and new international and Irish musicians in a season that glamorous and gifted opera singers of our time, Angela Gheorghiu, to one of
also marks the centenary year of György Ligeti, and the 150th anniversary of the greatest violinists in the world, Maxim Vengerov.
Rachmaninov’s birth.
That Chief Conductor Jaime Martín has renewed his commitment to lead the
Debut artists include Roderick Cox, Jonathon Hayward, Diego Matheuz, Gemma orchestra for another two seasons is evidence of his ongoing dedication to the
’ Francesca Dego, Eoín
New, Julia Bullock, James Gilchrist, Nemanja Radulovic, orchestra and his pledge to build on existing programming strengths and to
Fleming and Sinéad O’Halloran. Returning artists include Leonard Slatkin, Carlos bring world-class performances to the Irish public.
Kalmar, Mihhail Gerts, Elena Schwarz, Ruth Reinhardt, Jessica Cox, Kirill Gerstein,
The roster of established, new and emerging musical talent engaged in the
Daniel Lozakovich, David Brophy, Peter Whelan, Jennifer Davis, Paula Murrihy and
upcoming season is also testament to the orchestra’s vision of exploring new
Finghin Collins.
musical ventures and developing a fresh and shared vision with the NCH’s
We hope that the season has something for everyone, including as it does overall strategy. A key feature of that strategy is encouraging engagement with
orchestral showpieces by Mahler, Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, music, ensuring accessibility and celebrating musical excellence and diversity.
Ravel, Mussorgsky and Bartók, some of the greatest concertos ever written by Above all, we aspire to share in the transformative power of live music.
Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Mozart and Beethoven, as well as 20th-century classics We are particularly pleased to see that the orchestra will be performing not just
and the excitement of hearing new work for the first time. Highlights include world at the NCH but will be performing around Ireland, reaching and developing
premieres by four Irish composers – Ina Boyle, Jane O’Leary, Karen Power and new audiences and reaffirming the important role it plays in Ireland’s cultural life.
Shaun Davey – and an Irish premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning American Ellen Reid.
Our continued thanks to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht,
In this time of economic uncertainty, price and value remain our focus. Tickets Sport and Media for their ongoing support and to you our Friends, Patrons,
start at €15, a new €10 student ticket has been added and a range of discounts Supporters and audiences.
are available for those who buy 3 or more concerts.
We look forward to welcoming you all to the National Concert Hall over the
We hope that you find much to enjoy and we look forward to welcoming you very soon. coming season and to sharing in the magic of live music.

Anthony Long Robert Read Maura McGrath

General Manager, National Symphony Orchestra & Chorus CEO, National Concert Hall Chairperson, National Concert Hall

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 Nemanja Radulovic

FINGHIN COLLINS
2O22 NATIONAL
SYMPHONY
2O23 ORCHESTRA
Roderick Cox
KIRILL GERSTEIN SIMONE LAMSMA
Danielle de Niese Angela Gheorghiu
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS JONATHON
PAULA RUTH

DUBLIN
GALWAY HAYWARD MURRIHYREINHARDT
Jaime Martín ELENA SCHWARZ
Leonard Elschenbroich
JENNIFER DAVIS EOÍN FLEMING WATERFORD
It’s all about the music and you
Carlos Kalmar
CORK
David Brophy
WORLD PREMIERES
JESSICA COTTIS YOUNG IRISH
SOLOISTS &
Gemma New CONDUCTORS
Maxim Vengerov
WEILERSTEIN
JOSHUA

Julia Bullock Leonard Slatkin

MIHHAIL VIKTORIA MULLOVA
Mark
Redmond PETER GERTS James Gilchrist
WHELAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY CHORUS
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 A message from Jaime Martín During the most difficult days of the pandemic, we made a big effort to
be with you in your homes every week through our online concerts. Music
is made in a moment which can never be repeated exactly. To make
It is a big pleasure for me to continue as “Music can be that music when we can all be in the one room experiencing it live
Chief Conductor of the National Symphony
relaxing, but it can together is just fantastic.
Orchestra and to look forward to this new
season. I am incredibly excited with the also be dangerous,
The sound of an orchestra tuning up, the tension and excitement just
programmes which we have put together for intriguing, before a performance, the first notes of a work – they are magical for
you, our audience, and with the wonderful mysterious and me. Music can be relaxing, but it can also be dangerous, intriguing,
artists and choirs with whom we will make
beautiful. I would mysterious and beautiful. I would like to invite you to explore with us,
music. They are all so close to my heart. this is a journey we’ll take together.
like to invite you
I am always so happy to conduct in the to explore with us, See you very soon! We wait for you.
beautiful acoustic of the National Concert this is a journey
Hall. I am now even happier knowing that we Jaime
will also, finally, get to travel outside of Dublin, we’ll take together.
starting with Cork and Waterford, and to share We wait for you.” Jaime Martín
our music-making with new audiences. Chief Conductor
National Symphony Orchestra

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 SIMONE
LAMSMA

SEASON OPENING CHIEF

CONDUCTOR

CHIEF FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm

JAIME
MARTÍN

CONDUCTOR Jaime Martín, conductor

JAIME MARTÍN Simone Lamsma, violin

BERG Violin Concerto

MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Our new season begins in style, with the ‘brilliant’ (Cleveland

Plain Dealer) and ‘absolutely stunning’ (Chicago Tribune) Simone
Lamsma joining the National Symphony Orchestra and Chief
Conductor Jaime Martín for two monumental works.

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 RODERICK COX

FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm

Roderick Cox, conductor

Sae Yoon Chon, piano
WINNER DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2018

RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

Two astonishing young talents – pianist Sae Yoon Chon and

conductor Roderick Cox – promise new insights into a piano
concerto of surging romance, a thrilling powerhouse symphony,
and the most fragile and beautiful of musical fantasies.

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 CHIEF
CONDUCTOR

CULTURE NIGHT*
JAIME
MARTÍN

FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm*

National Concert Hall

SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm

City Hall, Cork

Jaime Martín, conductor

Viktoria Mullova, violin

SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
CHIEF MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
CONDUCTOR
JAIME MARTÍN For Culture Night, an evening of extravagant Russian drama

AND
and romance with the brilliant violin virtuoso Viktoria Mullova
making her long-awaited NSO debut in Prokofiev’s lyrical,

VIKTORIA Spanish-accented Second Violin Concerto.

MULLOVAĆ
VIOLIN
PRE-CONCERT CHORAL PERFORMANCE
(FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBER ONLY)
John Field Room, 6.15pm (15 minutes)
Cór na nÓg and Cór Linn Youth Choir
choral director Mary Amond O’Brien

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 DAVID BROPHY

FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER, 7.30pm WORLD

PREMIERE

MAXIM
David Brophy, conductor
Maxim Vengerov, violin

VENGEROV INA BOYLE Symphony No. 2, The Dream of the Rood

VIOLIN World Premiere
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1

The return of the phenomenal Maxim Vengerov – ‘one of the

most brilliant violinists you’ll ever hear’ (Washington Post) – is not to
be missed in Shostakovich’s searing First Violin Concerto, heard
alongside the highly anticipated world premiere of The Dream of the
Rood, the Second Symphony by Ina Boyle, the most significant and
prolific female composer in Ireland in the first half of the last century.

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 WORLD
PREMIERE

THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER, 8pm*

Leisureland, Galway
Presented in association with Music for Galway

FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER, 7.30pm

National Concert Hall

Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

Finghin Collins, piano

FINGHIN COLLINS TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings

JANE O’LEARY unfolding soundscapes
Music for Galway commission.
*World Premiere
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’

The ‘exceptionally fluent, exceptionally intelligent, exceptionally

sensitive’ (International Record Review) Finghin Collins joins
‘conductor of international renown’ (Irish America) Kenneth
Montgomery for music to soothe, revive and restore.

KENNETH
MONTGOMERY

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 FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER, 7.30pm

Angela Gheorghiu, soprano

Ciprian Teodoraşcu, conductor

VERDI La forza del destino Overture

GIORDANI Caro mio ben
GLUCK ‘Che farò senza Euridice?’
(Orfeo ed Euridice)
PUCCINI Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
ˇ
DVORÁK ‘Song to the Moon’ (Rusalka)
GOUNOD La valse de l’opéra Faust
CATALANI ‘Ebben? Ne andrò lontana’ (La Wally)
BIZET Carmen Overture and Habanera
PUCCINI Intermezzo Sinfonico (Madama Butterfly)
MASSENET ‘Pleurez, pleurez mes yeux’ (Le Cid)
PUCCINI ‘Donde lieta usci’ (La bohème)
BERNSTEIN Candide Overture
IOSIF IVANOVICI Barca pe valuri
DE CURTIS Non ti scordar di me

ANGELA
GHEORGHIU Angela Gheorghiu – ‘the most glamorous and gifted opera singer

SOPRANO
of our time’ (New York Sun) – makes an unmissable, all too rare,
appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra for an evening
of opera’s greatest soprano arias.

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 DIEGO MATHEUZ ALENA BAEVA

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER, 7.30pm FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER, 7.30pm

Diego Matheuz, conductor Mihhail Gerts, conductor

Daniel Lozakovich, violin Alena Baeva, violin

LOUISE FARRENC Overture No. 2 BRAHMS Violin Concerto

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto RICHARD STRAUSS Symphonia Domestica
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

Diego Matheuz, ‘a global hot property’ (Limelight) and Daniel The sublime as ecstasy and the everyday: a luxurious 19th-century
Lozakovich, ‘a serious artist who… already plays like one of the masterpiece concerto that inspired an Andrew Lloyd Webber hit,
greats’ (Hamburger Abendblatt), come together for Beethoven’s and a colourful, incident-filled portrait of family life from the early
game-changing Violin Concerto. Alongside, Louise Farrenc’s 20th century promise an evening of high drama and excitable
exhilarating orchestral showcase and a symphony where love emotions.
and hope triumph over tragedy.

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 CHIEF

CHIEF CONDUCTOR
JAIME
CONDUCTOR MARTÍN

JAIME MARTÍN FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER, 7.30pm

National Concert Hall

SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER, 8pm

SETU Arena, Waterford
In association with Symphony Club of Waterford

Jaime Martín, conductor

Anna Devin, soprano
Rafał Tomkiewicz, countertenor
Samuel Dale Johnson, baritone
National Symphony Chorus
David Young, chorus director
Cór na nÓg

LILI BOULANGER Psalm 129, Ils m’ont assez opprimé

dès ma jeunesse
RAVEL Ma mère L’Oye (Mother Goose)
ORFF Carmina Burana
NATIONAL
SYMPHONY
CHORUS From the Middle Ages to the nursery to the secrets of the
heart: the mesmerising medieval choral fantasy Carmina
Burana, a delightful ballet on fairy tales, and a movingly
intimate response to illness.

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 FRIDAY 2 DECEMBER, 7.30pm
CHIEF
CONDUCTOR
Jaime Martín, conductor JAIME
Nemanja Radulović, violin MARTÍN

CHIEF
CONDUCTOR ELLEN REID Floodplain
JAIME MARTÍN

NSO co-commission with Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra.

AND
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
Irish Premiere

NEMANJA RICHARD STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony

RADULOVICĆ
VIOLIN Danger stalks an evening of high drama and romance with the Irish
premiere of Ellen Reid’s Floodplain, Richard Strauss’s stirring hymnal to
the Alps, and a tortured cri de cœur from Tchaikovsky courtesy of the
charismatic Nemanja Radulović.

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 SUNDAY 1 JANUARY 2023, 3.30pm

Proinnsías Ó Duinn, conductor

Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, soprano
Gavan Ring, tenor

J STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus Overture

J STRAUSS II Thunder and Lightning Polka
LEHÁR ‘Meine Lippen sie Küssen so Heiss’ (Giuditta)
OSKAR STRAUSS ‘My Hero’ (The Chocolate Soldier)
J STRAUSS II ‘Du und Du’ Die Fledermaus
LEHÁR ‘Dein ist mein ganzes Herz’ (Das land des Lächelns)
LEHÁR ‘Gern hab’ ich die Frau’n geküsst’ (Paganini)
J STRAUSS II The Blue Danube Waltz
DONIZETTI ‘Ah! mes amis’ (La fille du régiment)
PUCCINI ‘La tregenda’ (Le Villi)
PUCCINI ‘Sola, perduta, abbandonata’ (Manon Lescaut)
PUCCINI ‘Che gelida manina’ (La bohème)
PUCCINI ‘Si, mi chiamano Mimì’ (La bohème)

NEW YEAR’S DAY PUCCINI ‘O soave fanciulla’ (La bohème)

CELEBRATION
What would New Year’s Day be without the glamour and gaiety of
old Vienna? Bid farewell to the old and welcome in the new with
ravishing music from ‘the Waltz King’, Johann Strauss II, and Franz
Lehár, together with some of Puccini’s greatest arias.

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 PETER WHELAN CARLOS KALMAR

FRIDAY 6 JANUARY, 7.30pm FRIDAY 13 JANUARY, 7.30pm

Peter Whelan, conductor Meadhbh O’Rourke, flute Carlos Kalmar, conductor

Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano WINNER MAURA DOWDALL John Finucane, clarinet
CONCERTO COMPETITION 2022
Nick Pritchard, tenor Greg Crowley, bassoon
Richard Allen, harp
John Molloy, bass
MAHLER Adagio from Symphony No. 10
MOZART Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra RICHARD STRAUSS Duet Concertino
STRAVINSKY Pulcinella SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
JOSEF STRAUSS Music of the Spheres
Peter Whelan’s ‘stylish verve’ (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘exuberance and
elegance’ (Irish Examiner) leads exciting young talents – Paula Murrihy’s
Last thoughts and leave-takings promise an evening of
‘golden malleable voice’ (Bachtrack), Nick Pritchard’s ‘dulcet lyric tenor’
heightened emotion, pent-up drama and soaring poetry in
(Gramophone) and ‘Ireland’s leading bass’ (Offaly Independent), John
valedictory works by Mahler, Schubert and Richard Strauss.
Molloy, with stunning harpist Richard Allen and flautist Meadhbh O’Rourke –
in an evening of classical refinement and contemporary hi-jinks.

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 JESSICA COTTIS

FRIDAY 20 JANUARY, 7.30pm

WORLD
PREMIERE
Jessica Cottis, conductor
Leticia Moreno, violin

KAREN POWER …nature calls…

NSO commission. World Premiere
ˇ
DVORÁK Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

LETICIA MORENO Three vital and vivid responses to the pleasures of birdsong, the
natural world and to life itself – including the world premiere of
Karen Power’s brilliant new piece – illuminate music’s power to
thrillingly capture mood and moment, place and people.

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 CHIEF
CHIEF FRIDAY 27 JANUARY, 7.30pm
CONDUCTOR
JAIME
CONDUCTOR Jaime Martín, conductor
MARTÍN

JAIME MARTÍN Danielle de Niese, soprano

AND
DANIELLE BRAHMS Symphony No. 3
POULENC La voix humaine
DE NIESE
SOPRANO Danielle de Niese – ‘opera’s coolest soprano’ (New York Times)
‘and one of the most sought-after singers on the planet’ (BBC
Radio 3) – is not to be missed in a work she has made her own:
Poulenc’s searing monodrama La voix humaine.

FRIDAY 3 FEBRUARY, 7.30pm

Jaime Martín, conductor

Danielle de Niese, soprano
National Symphony Chorus
David Young, chorus director

RAVEL Shéhérazade
MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail Overture
MOZART Exsultate, jubilate
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé

A second opportunity to hear one of opera’s true superstars in music

that could have been written for her: Ravel’s exotically perfumed
song-cycle, Shéhérazade, and Mozart’s bold and brilliant marriage
of the operatic and the sacred, Exsultate, jubilate.

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 FEDERICO COLLI

FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY, 7.30pm

Case Scaglione, conductor

Federico Colli, piano

IVES The Unanswered Question

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1

Going in search of the great perhaps… heart, soul and imagination

combine in music to make you feel and think. Delve into the
unfathomable realms of the head and heart with three mighty
works peering into the darkest corners of the soul to emerge in
enigmatic mystery, effusive lyricism and irresistible yearning.

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 FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY, 7.30pm

NATIONAL Jonathon Heyward, conductor

SYMPHONY Francesca Dego, violin

ORCHESTRA •
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ Overture

CELEBRATING MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5

75
ˇ
DVORÁK Symphony No. 8

A 75th birthday celebration featuring three showcase works for orchestra:

a masterpiece symphony rooted in the ageless forests of Bohemia,
a dazzling violin concerto with a Turkish tinge, and a wartime Overture
with a hidden message of hope.

The ‘fearless… exuberant, exhilarating… unforgettable’ (The Guardian)

Jonathon Heyward conducts, with Francesca Dego’s ‘technical finesse
and strong musicality’ (Gramophone) the icing on the cake.

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 ELENA SCHWARZ

FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY, 7.30pm

LIGETI
Elena Schwarz, conductor 1OO
Leonard Elschenbroich, cello

LIGETI Concert Românesc

KHACHATURIAN Cello Concerto
ˇ
DVORÁK Symphony No. 7

An opportunity to hear for yourself why Elena Schwarz is ‘taking

the world by storm’ (CutCommon) as she partners with the ‘great
technical prowess, intellectual curiosity and expressive depth’
(New York Times) of Leonard Elschenbroich for three colourful
border-crossing extravaganzas.

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 FRIDAY 3 MARCH, 7.30pm
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano

WAGNER The Flying Dutchman Overture

ELGAR Sea Pictures
MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture
DEBUSSY La mer
JENNIFER JOHNSTON
One of the world’s most acclaimed conductors, Leonard Slatkin,
and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, possessed of ‘one of the
most generous and beautiful voices in the business’ (Prospect),
headline an evening of four bejewelled masterpieces.

FRIDAY 10 MARCH, 7.30pm

RACHMANINOV
Leonard Slatkin, conductor 15O
Olga Kern, piano

JOAN TOWER Made in America

LEONARD CINDY McTEE

BERNSTEIN
Adagio for Strings
On the Waterfront Symphonic Suite
SLATKIN RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3

CONDUCTS Proof that lightning can strike twice in the same place: Leonard
Slatkin returns with signature music from three American greats
and a combustible Russian masterpiece with the ‘immensely
talented’ (Washington Post) Olga Kern as soloist.

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 WORLD
PREMIERE

FRIDAY 17 MARCH, 7.30pm

David Brophy, conductor

Sinéad O’Halloran, cello
Mark Redmond, uilleann pipes

SHAUN DAVEY Refuge, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

World Premiere
SHAUN DAVEY The Brendan Voyage

Celebrate St Patrick’s Day steeped in the music of one of

Ireland’s finest composers, Shaun Davey, with the world
ST PATRICK’S DAY premiere of his new Cello Concerto and his timeless and
epic contemporary classic, The Brendan Voyage.
THE MUSIC OF
SHAUN DAVEY

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 GEMMA NEW ANDREAS OTTENSAMER

FRIDAY 24 MARCH, 7.30pm FRIDAY 31 MARCH, 7.30pm

Gemma New, conductor Alexander Shelley, conductor

Eoín Fleming, piano Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet

ED BENNETT Freefalling RICHARD STRAUSS Don Juan

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Emperor’ MOZART Clarinet Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

Three compelling works fired by high-octane energy, intense A life in three episodes: summer splendour from Richard Strauss,
emotions and blistering impact conjure a life with too little gravity autumnal reflection from Mozart, and Bartók’s orchestral showcase
and a life with too much to invigorating dramatic effect. moving from winter chill to spring-like ebullience.

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 GOOD FRIDAY

FRIDAY 7 APRIL, 3.30pm

BACH St John Passion

David Hill, conductor

James Gilchrist, Evangelist
Aoife Miskelly, soprano
James Hall, countertenor
Dean Power, tenor
National Symphony Chorus
David Young, chorus director

A stellar line-up – including James Gilchrist, one

of the great Evangelists of our times, and choral
conductor extraordinaire David Hill – comes
together for one of the greatest, most profound
pinnacles of Western art.

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 RUTH MARTIN JAMES
REINHARDT BARTLETT

FRIDAY 28 APRIL, 7.30pm FRIDAY 5 MAY, 7.30pm

RACHMANINOV
Ruth Reinhardt, conductor Joshua Weilerstein, conductor 15O
Jennifer Davis, soprano Martin James Bartlett, piano

WEBERN Passacaglia FLORENCE PRICE Ethiopia’s Shadow in America

RICHARD STRAUSS Four Last Songs RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, ‘Scottish’ BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1
orch. Schoenberg

A first work by Webern, a last work from Richard Strauss, and a Two startling young talents come together for an evening of
Mendelssohn symphony of brilliant maturity, skewer into the hidden stirring, soulful, surprising music in which vibrant colour and
recesses of the heart and light up a landscape of wild beauty. searing drama is all.

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 KIRILL GERSTEIN

FRIDAY 12 MAY, 7.30pm

CHIEF RACHMANINOV
CONDUCTOR
Jaime Martín, conductor JAIME 15O
Kirill Gerstein, piano MARTÍN
CHIEF
CONDUCTOR IAN WILSON Man-o’-War
JAIME MARTÍN RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

The acclaimed Kirill Gerstein returns with a luxuriant Rachmaninov

piano concerto as Jaime Martín conjures exotic Arabian Nights
fantasies in an hypnotic orchestral jewel.

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 JULIA BULLOCK

FRIDAY 19 MAY, 7.30pm

Christian Reif, conductor

Julia Bullock, soprano

BRITTEN Les illuminations

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GRAZYNA BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5

A heightened, hypnotic song cycle, an inventive concerto

glancing towards the past, and a symphony ‘of the greatness
of the human spirit’ – all human life is here in music to stir the
senses and the soul.

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 RACHMANINOV

15O
SEASON FINALE
FRIDAY 26 MAY, 7.30pm

Mihhail Gerts, conductor

Mirjam Mesak, soprano
Valentyn Dytiuk, tenor
Andrei Bondarenko, baritone
National Symphony Chorus
David Young, chorus director

RACHMANINOV The Isle of the Dead

EDUARD TUBIN Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs
MIHHAIL GERTS RACHMANINOV The Bells

An evening of Eastern European romance and drama

courtesy of five remarkable talents from Estonia and Ukraine,
a soaring orchestral homage to Estonian folksong and two
brilliant fantasies by a Russian master.

MIRJAM MESAK

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