Ulster Orchestra
Philip Hammond introduces tonight's concert live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast.
The Ulster Orchestra continues its series featuring the symphonies of Beethoven.
The orchestra's principal conductor Thierry Fischer describes Beethoven's Second
Symphony, which radiates happiness despite the composer's increasing deafness, as "passionate and electrifying." The lyrical Fourth Symphony conjured up for Schumann "a slender Greek maiden standing between two Nordic giants," but is for Fischer "a resting place between the turmoil of past heroic ideals and the seismic upheaval of the Fifth Symphony."
Julian Bliss (clarinet), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Thierry Fischer
Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622

8.45 Twenty Minutes: Belfast Winter
A new short story from the Belfast novelist Glenn Patterson, which takes place in the city as winter deepens before Christmas.

9.05 Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
(The next concert in this series is on Friday at 7.45pm)