Check out our amazing composer Bill Whelan’s #Riverdance being performed by the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra. This recording is included on RTÉ Lyric FM's new #CD of Bill's work, which can be purchased here: goo.gl/T3wQtM
Spectacular!!! It almost pains me that there was no one in that audience and 'crickets' at the ending (no applause & cheers)! Bravo! Standing ovation from the RU-vid world!
It is interesting to note that there is a significant difference in the sound between the violin solo in this recording vs the fiddling in the original recording.
Thank you Bill whelan for this absolute masterpiece. I love this so much it goes from my heart up to my throat every single time. Takes me back to when I was 8 yrs old and fell in love with Jean butler and took up Irish dancing.
Thanks RTE for the first every Riverdance show from the Pointe Theatre in Dublin and PBS in Spokane it was a awesome show with Micheal Flatley and Jean Butler.
It breaks my heart to think this beautiful peace along with river dance is now 25 yrs old by god it makes me feel a over whelming sadness because those people are growing old Flatley himself is 60 when the peace is still so fresh because of what it made for the dancing history and future along with music it and the dancing out with it was fenonamal 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I've heard this so many times on the video I can still hear the taps in my head. Check out "The Celtic Album" if you like this, Boston pops orchestra, fantastic!
The orchestra could play this year in 2019 during the voting at the Eurovision Song Contest. Would fit in any case, because "Riverdance" was danced in 1995 at the Eurovision Song Contest.