RTE National Symphony Orchestra

The dynamic William Eddins is back in town to conduct an all-American programme with the RTE NSO at the NCH on Fri 30 April. First off is the European premiere of Owls, a new piece by Andre Previn. Philip Martin is the soloist in Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto, and mezzo Fiona Murphy & baritone Owen Gilhooly join the RTE Philharmonic Choir for Hindemith’s setting of Walt Whitman’s When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d. There’s the world premiere of a new work by Jennifer Walshe on Fri 7 May, along with Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 6 (Pathetique); Brahms, Dvorak and Beethoven (Symphony No 7) on Fri 14, with Arabella Steinbacher the soloist in Dvorak’s Violin Concerto; a Viennese evening on Fri 21 with Schubert (Unfinished), Berg, Mozart and Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht. The NSO’s final concert of the season is on Fri 28, a great mix of Mozart, Beethoven and Berlioz. François-Frédéric Guy is the soloist in Beethoven’s Emperor Piano Concerto, and the whole shebang comes to a dramatic end with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. www.rte.ie