First Drogheda Classical Music presents the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in a concert recorded in St Peter’s Church with Mia Cooper leading the orchestra in a programme including Haydn, Vivaldi, Rossini and Schubert with soloists Emma Roche, Shaun Hooke and Eamonn Nolan. Then Paul Herriott transports us to the National Concert Hall in Dublin where Gavin Maloney conducts the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in music by Beethoven and Schubert and the orchestra is joined by renowned Irish pianist Finghin Collins for Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor.
Haydn: Symphony No. 6 ‘Le Matin’
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto in C
Vivaldi: Concerto for two Trumpets in D
Rossini: String Sonata No. 1 in G
Schubert: Symphony No. 5
Mia Cooper Leader/Director
Emma Roche, piccolo
Shaun Hooke, Eamonn Nolan, trumpets
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Gavin Maloney, conductor
Finghin Collins, piano
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 9th January, 7pm-10pm
