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Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Beethoven in Belfast

Mark Forrest showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason joining the Ulster Orchestra for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.

Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by ѿý orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

Throughout this week Classical Live is spending time in Belfast’s Ulster Hall, with live concert recordings made specially for us there by the Ulster Orchestra. Today, we hear from their 2024-25 season opening concert, which featured pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason as the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. There’s also symphonic Bruckner from later in the season – his Symphony No. 1 in the Linz version.

And our focus on Dvorak’s chamber music continues with former ѿý Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Armida Quartet performing the String Quartet No. 14 at last year’s Rheingau Music Festival.

Plus there’s a chance to hear the latest from ѿý Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. Today, Kristina Arakelyan marks 2024, the ‘year of the Aurora’.

1pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Eduardo Strausser (conductor)

Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Partir Vorrei (Polifemo)
Bruno da Sà (male soprano)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (director)

Alessandro Scarlatti
Più non m'alletta e piace (Il Giardino d’Amore - Venere e Adone)
Bruno da Sà (male soprano)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder and director)

Antonin Dvorak
String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major, Op. 105
Armida Quartet

Kristina Arakelyan
Northern Lights (ѿý Radio 3: 25 for 25 commission)
Kristina Arakelyan (piano)
ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra

Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor (arr. for recorder)
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder)
Ensemble 1700

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Linz version)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

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2 hours, 56 minutes

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, Op. 58

    Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Eduardo Strausser.
  • Giovanni Battista Bononcini

    Partir vorrei, from 'Polifemo'

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Performer: Marco Testori. Performer: Olga Watts. Performer: Axel Wolf. Performer: Evgeny Sviridov. Performer: Anna Dmitrieva. Performer: Gabrielle Kancachian. Performer: Kit Scotney. Singer: Bruno de Sá. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Più non m'alletta e piace, from 'Il Giardino d'Amore (Venere e Adone)'

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Performer: Marco Testori. Performer: Olga Watts. Performer: Axel Wolf. Performer: Evgeny Sviridov. Performer: Anna Dmitrieva. Performer: Gabrielle Kancachian. Performer: Kit Scotney. Singer: Bruno de Sá. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major, Op. 105

    Ensemble: Armida Quartett.
  • Kristina Arakelyan

    Aurora Borealis

    Performer: Kristina Arakelyan. Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Naomi Woo.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Oboe Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Performer: Marco Testori. Performer: Olga Watts. Performer: Axel Wolf. Performer: Evgeny Sviridov. Performer: Anna Dmitrieva. Performer: Gabrielle Kancachian. Performer: Kit Scotney. Singer: Bruno de Sá. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.
  • Vardapet Komitas

    Armenian folk dances for piano, nos 1-3

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No.1 in C minor, WAB 101 (1877 Linz Version)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.
  • John Sheppard

    Jesu salvator saeculi, redemptis

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Humoresque

    Ensemble: Z.E.N. Trio.

Broadcast

  • Tue 15 Jul 2025 13:00