For the last decade, internationally renowned violinist André Rieu has enchanted PBS audiences with concert specials from Dublin to Tuscany to his Dutch hometown of Maastricht. In André Rieu: Radio City Music Hall, Live in New York, Rieu and his special musical guests perform for a sold-out crowd at the famed Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Recorded in July 2006, the concert features 21 selections, ranging from songs popularized in films and musicals to more traditional and classical pieces, performed by Rieu and his special guests: the Harlem Gospel Choir, Johann Strauss Orchestra and Rieu’s vocal choir. Rieu’s Radio City Music Hall concert also marks the return of five-year-old violinist Akim Camara, who originally delighted Rieu fans at age three when he played his very little violin in a previous special.
In Radio City Music Hall, which Rieu considers very special to him and his orchestra, he pays tribute to Frank Sinatra in a moving rendition of “My Way.”
Other music included in André Rieu: Radio City Music Hall, Live in New York:
• “Seventy-Six Trombones” from Meredith Willson’s The Music Man
• “The Life of Artists” by Johann Strauss
• “Blaze Away” by A. Holzmann and J. Kennedy
• “Dance of the Fairies” by E. Jenkinson, featuring Akim Camara on violin
• “Godfather Waltz” by N. Rota, theme from the Academy Award-winning film The Godfather
• “Yackety Sax” by R. Randolph, theme from “The Benny Hill Show”
• “Amen” Traditional, featuring the Harlem Gospel Choir
• “I Will Follow Him” by F.M.L. Pourcel and P. Mauriat
• “Nun’s Chorus” from Johann Strauss’ Casanova
• “Singin’ in the Rain” by N.H. Brown, from Singin’ in the Rain
• “The Washington Post” by J.P. Sousa
• “Oh Happy Day” by E.R. Hawkins, featuring the Harlem Gospel Choir
• “The Music of the Night” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera
• “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita
• “Hallelujah” by G.F. Handel, featuring the Harlem Gospel Choir
• “Radetzky Marsch” by Johann Strauss
• “A Bright Young Man” Medley
• “When the Saints Go Marching In” Traditional, featuring the Harlem Gospel Choir
• “America the Beautiful” by S.A. Ward
• “The Stars and Stripes Forever” by J.P. Sousa