The RTE Concert Orchestra is one of the two full-time professional orchestras in Ireland that are part of RTE, the national broadcasting station. Since its formation as the Radio Eireann Light Orchestra in 1948, the RTE Concert Orchestra, has grown from a small studio-based recording group to become an active 45-strong orchestra performing over eighty concerts annually. It is part of RTE Performing Groups.

 

 

The orchestra performs classical, popular and big band evening and lunchtime concerts, covering a range of music from baroque to contemporary.

 

Conductor: David Brophy
Violin: Ning Feng
Traditional Irish Fiddle: Zoe Conway
Performance: RTE Concert Orchestra

 

 

Program
Strauss: Overture Die Fledermaus 
Strauss: Emperor Waltz 
Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy / Zigneurveisen (Violin: Ning Feng) 

- Intermission -

Trad Arr Tate: Cead Mile Failte (A Hundred Thousand Welcomes)
Trad Arr Casey: An Cuilin
Trad Arr Potter: Finnegans Wake
Traditional Irish Soloist: Desert Storm / Rounding Malin Head (Soloist: Zoe Conway)
Traditional Irish Soloist: Items To Include The Mason‘s Apron (Soloist: Zoe Conway)
Trad Arr Grainger: Londonderry Air
O'Riarda: Excerpts From The Film Score Mise Eire
Shore: Suite From The Lord of the Rings 
Whelan: Riverdance