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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 round off our programmes featuring the Ulster Orchestra at home in Belfast with Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1, a piece whose premiere was so disastrous it sent the composer into a spiral of depression and writer’s block. There’s also music by Engelbert Humperdinck – highlights from his famous opera Hansel and Gretel arranged for orchestra by Gerard Schwarz.

We stay in Belfast for another of Dvorak’s major chamber works, his String Quartet No. 11 played by the Pavel Haas Quartet in recital last year at Queen’s University. And we return to the 2024 Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria for more from the remarkable male soprano Bruno da Sá’s concert with Baroque specialists Ensemble 1700.

1pm
Engelbert Humperdinck arr. Gerard Schwarz
Hansel and Gretel Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Tom Featherstonhaugh (conductor)

Alessandro Scarlatti
Sinfonia (Clori, Dorino e Amore)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder and director)

George Frideric Handel
Concerto in F major Op.4 No.5 for organ and orchestra (arr. for recorder and ensemble)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder and director)

Ernest Chausson
Viviane - symphonic poem on a legend of the Round Table Op.5
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Antonin Dvorak
String Quartet No 11 in C major, Op 61
Pavel Haas Quartet

Alessandro Scarlatti
Venere e Amore (Sinfonia)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder and director)

Francesco Barsanti
Johnnie Faa
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder and director)

George Frideric Handel
Qui l'augel da pianta in pianta (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo)
Bruno da Sà (male soprano)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder and director)

Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13
Ulster Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)

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