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Afternoon on 3: Ulster Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Ulster Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ulster Orchestra, Episode 3

Louise Fryer presents the Ulster Orchestra in music by Berlioz, Walton and Sibelius.

Louise Fryer presents music performed by the Ulster Orchestra. Berlioz: Overture (Le roi Lear). Walton: Violin Concerto (soloist: Tasmin Little). Sibelius: Symphony No 3.

Louise Fryer introduces an Ulster Orchestra concert recorded last Friday evening in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, with conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. It features the latest instalment in the Ulster Orchestra's Sibelius cycle, the 'economical' Symphony No 3. The week's British theme continues as Tasmin Little joins the orchestra for William Walton's Violin Concerto - a tour de force commissioned in 1936 by Jascha Heifetz for the sum of £300! (It was worth a lot more in those days.) The concert begins with Berlioz's Overture, Le roi Lear - based on Shakespeare's play, a recent discovery for the composer whose love of Shakespeare was to be lifelong.

Berlioz: Overture, Le roi Lear
2.10pm
Walton: Violin Concerto
Tasmin Little (violin)
2.45pm
Sibelius: Symphony No 3
Ulster Orchestra,
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra

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Louise Fryer presents concerts given by the Ulster Orchestra

Louise Fryer presents concerts given by the Ulster Orchestra, with music with a British and Russian flavour

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