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NIALL CARROLL’S CLASSICAL DAYTIME

Concert de Paris à l'occasion du 14 Juillet Image Name: Concert de Paris à l'occasion du 14 Juillet

Classical Daytime this New Years Day features pianist Lang Lang, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, bass Bryn Terfel and the French National Orchestra, conductor Daniele Gatti in concert under the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The Coffee Concert at 11 am was recorded on Bastille Day last July and includes music by Verdi, Puccini, Leonard Bernstein, Berlioz and much more.

Coffee Concert:

France: Champ de Mars, Eiffel Tower, Paris

Berlioz: Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust

Orff: Tempus est Iocundum & Finale from Carmina Burana

Harold Arlen: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Fritz Kreisler: Le Tambourin Chinois

Puccini: Nessun Dorma from Turandot

Bernstein: Candide Overture

Verdi: Va Pensiero from Nabucco

Gershwin: Excerpts from Rhapsody in Blue

Mozart: La Ci Darem la Mano from Don Giovanni

Puccini: Te Deum from Tosca

Rachmaninov: Vocalise

Massenet: Meditation from Thais

Khatchaturian: Sabre Dance from Gayaneh

Puccini: Un Bel Di, Vedremo from Madame Butterfly

Offenbach: Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann

Verdi: Gloria all’Egitto from Aida

Bernstein: Mambo from West Side Story

Lang Lang (piano)

Ray Chen (violin)

Gautier Capuçon  (cello)

Julie Fuchs (soprano)

Joyce Di Donato (mezzo-soprano)

Carmel Remigio (soprano)

Bryn Terfel (bass)

Fabio Sartori (tenor)

La Maîtrise de Radio France

Radio France Chorus

Orchestre National de France

Daniele Gatti (conductor)

RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 1st January, 10am-1pm