THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT

Aedín Gormley and Paul Herriott Image Name: Aedín Gormley and Paul Herriott Description: Aedín Gormley and Paul Herriott

Broadcast Details: Friday 2nd August, 7.30pm

Another chance to hear Paul Herriott and Aedín Gormley present RTÉ lyric fm's 20th birthday concert featuring the music of Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Rossini and John Williams, in a concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

The tone of the concert – celebrating the joy of music – was set by the premiere of three new works by Irish composers who were awarded the prize in an open competition to write new music marking the 20th birthday of RTÉ lyric fm. Tyrone-born and Maynooth-based composer Ryan Molloy wrote Gealán, a concerto for Irish harp and orchestra that allows its soloist Anne-Marie O’Farrell to showcase her talents. Kate Neville’s setting of the Carrick-on-Suir poet Michael Coady’s poem Though there are torturers (…there is music) was performed by the massed singers of the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir while Elliot Murphy’s new composition for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Cello Octet borrows from the Irish slow air tradition to create a captivating new work.

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

RTÉ Philharmonic Choir conductor

Gavin Maloney (conductor)

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Cello Octet

Anne-Marie O’Farrell, Irish harp

Gavan Ring, tenor

Emma Nash, soprano

Conductor Gavin Maloney

(First broadcast Wednesday 1st May)

RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 2nd August, 7.30pm-9.30pm