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Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra - Live from Belfast

Ulster Orchestra - Live from Belfast

22/02/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ulster Orchestra - Live from Belfast

Live from Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra plays music by Dvorak, Schumann and Nielsen.

Live from Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra plays Dvorak, Nielsen and Schumann's Cello Concerto with cellist Leonard Elschenbroich. Plus the BBC SSO in music by Brahms and Schumann.

Our third live 2pm concert this week comes live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Wilson Hermanto conducts the Ulster Orchestra in music by Dvorak, Carl Nielsen and Schumann - his cello concerto, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Leonard Elschenbroich. And in the interval, you can hear the orchestra playing a piece by the concert's 'absent friend' or missing link, Johannes Brahms - friend of Dvorak, protege of Schumann and powerful influence on the young Carl Nielsen.

There's more Brahms after the concert, too, together with the final instalment of this week's Schumann Symphony series, as Louise Fryer presents performances by our featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish SO, with their Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles. 

LIVE
Presented by John Toal
Dvorak: Symphonic Variations, Op. 78
Schumann: Cello Concerto
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
3pm
Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7
Ulster Orchestra
Wilson Hermanto (conductor)

3.40pm
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Men of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

3.55pm
Schumann: Symphony no. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 (original version, 1841)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

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