Ulster Orchestra
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast,
Philip Hammond introduces the first in a series of concerts featuring the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies. The Rrst Symphony was the best-known in Beethoven's lifetime, and is paired this evening with the most familiar of his symphonies today - the fifth.
Mary Nelson (soprano), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Thierry Fischer
Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C
Mozart Come Scoglio (Cosi Fan Tutte); L 'Amero, Saro Costante (II Re Pastore); Dove Sono (Le Nozze di Figaro)
8.35 Twenty Minutes: Emily Anderson and Beethoven's Letters The Irish-born editor and translator Emily Anderson published the first authoritative English translation of Beethoven's collected letters in 1961. Rosaleen O'Neill , lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Emily Anderson 's native city of Galway, tells the story of this remarkable woman.
8.55 Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor