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Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

We continue our focus on the Ulster Orchestra this week with two pieces recorded in concert at their home venue, the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The programme opens with Copland’s ballet Appalachian Spring, and later we hear pianist Stephen Hough playing Brahms’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 1.

There’s more chamber music by Antonin Dvorak too, with the Dover Quartet playing what is probably his best-loved chamber work, the ‘American’ String Quartet No. 12. And we hear more vocal pyrotechnics from the sensational male soprano Bruno da Sá, in concert with baroque group Ensemble 1700 at last year’s Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria.

1pm
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Ulster Orchestra
James Burton (conductor)

Antonin Dvorak
String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'
Dover Quartet

Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Ombra mai fu (Xerse)
Bruno da Sá (male soprano)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (director)

Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Farfalletta che segue d'amor (Polifemo)
Bruno da Sá (male soprano)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (director)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor Op.15
Stephen Hough (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

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