From the Elmwood Hall, a special programme broadcast as part of the Belfast
Festival. Guest performers include
Della Jones (mezzo) and Julius Drake (piano), the Belfast Wind Quintet,
Robbie Hannan (uilleann pipes) and a quartet of double basses known as the Singing Wardrobes. Music on CD includes:
Rutter Gloria (1st mvt)
Cambridge Singers, City of London
Sinfonia, conducted by the Composer Artist of the Week:
Conductor Neeme Jarvi
Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Khachaturian Three Children's
Pieces; Waltz (Masquerade) Murray McLachlan (piano)
Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice Ulster Orchestra, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Harty The Fair Day; In the Antrim Hills (An Irish Symphony) Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
Arnold Four Irish Dances
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Penny Composer of the Week:
Strauss Introduction; Love Scene (Film music: Der Rosenkavalier) London Tivoli Theatre Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Vivaldi Concerto in B minor for Four
Violins. RV580
Hanover Band, conductor Anthony Halstead
Ireland The Overlanders (excerpts) London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Richard Hickox
Producer Brian Jackson
E-MAIL: bksm@bbc.co.uk