Join us as we look back at celebration of RTÉ lyric fm’s 25th birthday in Limerick, home of RTÉ lyric fm, with a gala concert featuring the music of Puccini, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bizet, Morricone, Bernstein, John Williams, Strauss, Copland, Mascagni, Mancini, Alan Menken, Dvorak and more!
The evening was hosted by RTÉ lyric fm presenters who came together to celebrate the joy of music and its power to connect.
Along with a selection of favourites, three new works for orchestra which focussed on the themes of nostalgia, hope and rebirth were premiered. Limerick composer and the Cranberries drummer Fergal Lawler’s The Curragower Falls reflected on memories of childhood by the River Shannon. Cork composer Paul Frost’s A New Day Rising captured the feeling of waking up optimistically to a new day. Dundalk composer and fiddle player Zoë Conway Bualadh an cheoil, bualadh an chroí (Music playing, heart beating) demonstrates the powerful connection of Irish music to the body and dance.
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Celine Byrne, soprano
Emmet Cahill, tenor
Juliette Crosbie
Berginald Rash (clarinet)
Zoë Conway (violin)
Edwina Guckian (dancer)
Our Lady Queen of Peace Choir, Janesboro, Limerick
Conductor: David Brophy
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 27th December, 7pm-10pm
