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Afternoon Concert: 12/08/2008

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12/08/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 12/08/2008

The Ulster Orchestra in a Prom featuring music by Ferguson, Stanford, Smetana and Dvorak.

Presented by Ian Skelly. BBC Proms 2008: The Ulster Orchestra in music by Ferguson, Stanford, Smetana and Dvorak. Chamber Music: Works by MacMillan and Brahms.

BBC Proms 2008

Ian Skelly presents the Ulster Orchestra under its principal conductor Kenneth Montgomery exploring contrasting nationalities in a colourful Proms programme of Irish and Czech music. Works by Irish born composers Ferguson and Stanford are followed by Smetana's Ma vlast and Dvorak's Eighth Symphony. Young Irish pianist Finghin Collins makes his Proms debut in Stanford's Second Piano Concerto. Introduced by Alex Wilson.

Finghin Collins (piano)
Ulster Orchestra 
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Ferguson: Overture for an Occasion 
Stanford: Piano Concerto No 2
Smetana: Vltava (Ma vlast)
Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G

Chamber Music

MacMillan: Memento for String Quartet
Callino Quartet
 
Brahms: Quintet in F minor for piano and strings, Op 34
Barry Douglas (piano)
Callino Quartet.

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