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Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon on 3: Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra Summer Series: Episode 1

Episode 1

Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ulster Orchestra Summer Series, Episode 1

The Ulster orchestra performs music by Mozart, Faure, Ravel, Schmitt, Poulenc and Ravel.

With Mozart: Symphony No 31; Faure: Pelleas et Melisande Suite; Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin; Schmitt: La tragedie de Salome; Bill Campbell: Weather Report (broadcast premiere).

The Ulster Orchestra performs music recorded in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, as part of the 2009 BBC Summer Concert series. The 2009 themes include French connections, Irish pianists and Northern Ireland's composers.

Featuring Mozart's Symphony No 31, composed during his second visit to the French capital in 1778; Ravel's tribute to the victims of the First World War; Florent Schmitt's 1907 ballet, then dedicated to Stravinsky, and based on a poem by Robert d'Humieres; the premiere performance of a new work by Belfast composer Bill Campbell; and Irish pianist Philip Martin performing Poulenc's Piano Concerto

2.00pm
Mozart: Symphony No 31 in D, K297 (Paris)
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Faure: Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op 80
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Ulster Orchestra
Jane Glover (conductor)

2.50pm
Schmitt: La tragedie de Salome
Ulster Orchestra
Pascal Rophe (conductor)

Bill Campbell: Weather Report (broadcast premiere)
Ulster Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor)

3.55pm
Poulenc: Piano Concerto
Philip Martin (piano)
Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor)

4.30pm
Ravel: Ma mere L'oye
Ulster Orchestra
Pierre Andre Valade (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

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The Ulster Orchestra performs music as part of the 2009 BBC Summer Concert series

The Ulster Orchestra performs music in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, as part of the 2009 BBC Summer Concert series. The themes include French connections, Irish piainists and Northern Ireland's composers

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