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Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra Summer Series: Episode 5: Handel: Giustino (Act 3)

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Episode 5: Handel: Giustino (Act 3)

Ulster Orchestra Summer Series

Handel: Giustino (Act 3)

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ulster Orchestra Summer Series, Handel: Giustino (Act 3)

Act 3 of Handel's opera Giustino, plus the Ulster Orchestra in music by Faure and Debussy.

Handel Operas 2009: As part of a complete cycle of Handel operas, Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Giustino. Plus the Ulster Orchestra in music by Gardner Faure, Bizet and Debussy.

Handel Operas 2009

Jonathan Swain presents Act 3 of Handel's opera Giustino, which concludes with the meteoric rise of the peasant Giustino. He has captured and imprisoned the rebel Vitaliano, but the final act opens with Vitaliano's escape from prison.

Handel: Giustino (Act 3)

Giustino ...... Michael Chance (countertenor) 
Arianna ...... Dorothea Roschmann (soprano) 
Anastasio ...... Dawn Kotoski (soprano)
Leocasta ...... Jennifer Lane (contralto) 
Vitaliano ...... Mark Padmore (tenor) 
Amanzio ...... Drew Minter (countertenor)
Fortuna ...... Juliana Gondek (soprano)  
Polidarte ...... Dean Ely (bass-baritone)
Halle Cantamus Chorus
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor)
 
3.15pm
Ulster Orchestra Summer Series
The Ulster Orchestra play music by Northern Ireland composer Stephen Gardner, and Dublin pianist Finghin Collins joins them in Faure's Ballade.

The series concludes with the broadcast premiere of Debussy's Le gladiateur, a cantata telling the dramatic story about the life of a young gladiator, Narbal. The work won Debussy the second prize in the 1883 Prix de Rome, but the orchestral score remained in the collections of the National Library of France for more than a century, being neither published nor played.

Le gladiateur had its first professional performance in modern times at the Ulster Hall in Belfast in August 2009, from a new first edition of the score by Thibault Perrine.

D'Indy: Tableaux de voyage
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Stephen Gardner: The Shipyard           
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

3.40pm
Faure: Ballade, Op 19
Finghin Collins (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Bizet: L'Arlesienene Suite No 1
Ulster Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor)

4.25pm
Debussy: Le gladiateur (broadcast premiere)
Claire Ormshaw (soprano)
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
Thorbjorn Gulbrandsoy (baritone)
Ulster Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud (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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