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Classicsonline Home » Artists » I » Ireland National Symphony Orchestra

Ireland National Symphony Orchestra

Formerly known as the Ireland National Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra plays a central rôle in classical music in Ireland, through live performance, broadcast and touring. As an integral part of RTÉ (Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster), the orchestra reaches a great number of listeners through its weekly broadcasts on RTÉ lyric fm and through its association with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). In addition to its annual subscription season, Horizons contemporary music series, national tours and residencies and summer concerts series, the orchestra continues to make a name for itself internationally through its recordings with Naxos, Marco Polo and on the RTÉ label.

In 2004 the RTÉ NSO won the Orchestra and Concerto: CD Première category of the Critics’ Awards in the 2004 Cannes Classical Awards for its recording of Joly Braga Santos’s Symphony No. 4 (8.225233) under conductor Álvaro Cassuto. Highlights of recent seasons have included Ireland’s first complete Mahler symphony cycle, as well as complete cycles of Shostakovich, Bruckner, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Schumann symphonies, a Brahmsfest, a Stravinsky retrospective, and the orchestral song-cycles of Mahler.

Upcoming Engagements

2008

SEPTEMBER 2:	RTÉ Summer Lunchtime Concert National Concert Hall, 1: 05pm Isabelle O’Connell, piano Gerhard Markson, conductor
SEPTEMBER 5:	Beethoven's Leonore overture, the 'Emperor' Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 7 National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
SEPTEMBER 9:	The RTÉ NSO and Andreja Malir perform Debussy National Concert Hall, 1: 05pm
SEPTEMBER 12:	Brahms' Symphony No. 1 with Reinecke and Schubert National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
SEPTEMBER 19:	CULTURE NIGHT - Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite with his Violin Concerto in D, with Stravinsky and Dennehy's Crane National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
SEPTEMBER 26:	Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503 with Bruckner National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
OCTOBER 3:	Elgar's Cello Concerto with Bartók and Sibelius National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
OCTOBER 10:	Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 with Prokofiev and Krieger National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
OCTOBER 17:	Dvorák's Symphony 'From the New World' with Mozart and Janácek National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
OCTOBER 31:	Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto with Messiaen, Ravel and Gardner National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
NOVEMBER 7:	Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with Franck and Dutilleux National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
NOVEMBER 14:	Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' Symphony with Dvorák and Smetana National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
NOVEMBER 28:	Haydn's The Creation National Concert Hall, 8:00pm
DECEMBER 5:	Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Richard Strauss National Concert Hall, 8:00pm