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The Ulster Orchestra play Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1

Mark Forrest showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including the Ulster orchestra in music by Engelbert Humperdinck and Sergei Rachmaninov.

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)

Libby Larsen
Deep Summer Music
Ulster Orchestra
James Burton (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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2 hours, 56 minutes

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Thu 17 Jul 2025 13:00
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel and Gretel Suite (arr. Gerard Schwarz)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Tom Fetherstonhaugh.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Clori, Dorino e Amore (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Ensemble 1700. Director: Dorothee Oberlinger.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F, HWV 293 (arr. recorder and ensemble)

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    5 Preludes, Op 16

    Performer: Alexander Gadjiev.

  • Libby Larsen

    Deep Summer Music

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: James Burton.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    String Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Sinfonia (Venere e Amore)

    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.

  • Francesco Barsanti

    Johnnie Faa

    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.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Qui l'augel da pianta in pianta (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo)

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Singer: Bruno de Sá. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Seal.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Come nube che fugge dal vento (Agrippina)

    Singer: Bruno de Sá. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700. Director: Dorothee Oberlinger.

Broadcast

  • Thu 17 Jul 2025 13:00
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3