成人快手

Tom McKinney brings this week of performances by the Ulster Orchestra to a close.

They begin with a concert recorded in Belfast last June which saw conductor Oliver Zeffman making his debut with the orchestra. The concert opens with the overture to Borodin's opera Prince Igor, which Alexander Glazunov completed from Borodin鈥檚 sketches following the composer鈥檚 sudden death. It's followed by an arrangement of Tchaikovsky鈥檚 violin and piano piece 'Souvenir d'un lieu cher', which itself was arranged for violin and orchestra by Glazunov. This arrangement for cello and orchestra is by Daniel M眉ller-Schott, who is also the soloist.

This concert concludes with the orchestral suite Ravel made from his five-movement piano duet piece Mother Goose, completed in 1910.

The afternoon continues with two highlights from another concert given in Belfast last November. This time, conductor Daniele Rustioni takes to the podium for Richard Strauss's epic tone poem Don Juan. His version of the tale focuses on someone looking for, but never finding, his idealised vision of love, and the work proceeds via a series of climaxes and disappointments, ending in the protagonist鈥檚 death in a duel. The orchestra's leader Tam谩s Kocsis then turns soloist in a performance of Alban Berg鈥檚 most popular work - his Violin Concerto. Following the death of Alma Mahler鈥檚 daughter Manon, the concerto was dedicated to her 鈥� 鈥榯o the Memory of an Angel鈥� 鈥� and its highly wrought tragedy ultimately is not only a sublime memorial to Manon, but also Berg himself, who died before the piece was premi猫red. Bach鈥檚 chorale 鈥楨s ist genug! Herr wenn es Dir gef盲llt鈥� (It is enough! Lord, if it pleases You) shapes this monument to the complexity of human life.

2.00pm
Borodin orch. Glazunov: Prince Igor Overture
Tchaikovsky orch. Glazunov: Souvenir d鈥檜n lieu cher, Op.42
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Daniel M眉ller-Schott (cello)
Oliver Zeffman (conductor)

2.50pm
Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op.20
Berg: Violin Concerto
Ulster Orchestra
Tam谩s Kocsis (violin)
Daniele Rustioni (conductor)