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The Ulster Orchestra live from Belfast

The Ulster Orchestra play works by Dave Heath and Tchaikovsky, live from Belfast.

Live from Belfast the Ulster Orchestra and Irish saxophonist Gerard McChrystal perform the first ever broadcast of two new works by British composer Dave Heath. The concert concludes with Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique Symphony' which he described many times in letters as “the best thing I ever composed or shall compose”. Later in the afternoon Tom McKinney kicks off a week of recordings by the ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Bartok's youthful Suite No 1, which caused a sensation at its premiere in Vienna in 1905.

Dave Heath: Ray of Light
Dave Heath: Illumination
Gerard McChrystal (saxophone)
Ulster Orchestra
Maxime Pascal (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6
Ulster Orchestra
Maxime Pascal (conductor)

3.20pm

Bartok Suite no. 1 Sz.31 for orchestra
40’50
ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Béla Bartók

    Suite no.1 for Orchestra

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
  • Edward Elgar

    In the South 'Alassio'

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HYPERION.
  • Thomas Alexander Erskine

    The Maid of the Mill - overture

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • Scotland's Music.
    • Linn Records.
    • 003.

Broadcast

  • Mon 3 Feb 2020 14:00