Symphonic Storytellers: Anna Su艂kowska-Migo艅 conducts the Ulster Orchestra
Kathy Clugston introduces a programme of Lutos艂awski, Shostakovich and Rimsky-Korsakov from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Anna Su艂kowska-Migo艅 conducts the Ulster Orchestra.
Kathy Clugston introduces a colourful programme of Symphonic Storytellers from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. The Ulster Orchestra is conducted by Anna Su艂kowska-Migo艅 - first prize winner at the La Maestra conducting competition in Paris in March 2022.
Its curtain-up with Lutos艂awski's Little Suite for Orchestra. It was originally written for chamber orchestra in 1950, in response to a commission from Radio Warsaw. It specialised in popular repertoire and the piece, based on folk melodies from the Rzesz贸w region of southern Poland, quickly gained interest. It was revised and extended for symphony orchestra the following year.
Shostakovich wrote his Piano Concerto No.1 in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings in 1933, aged 27, as a graduation piece. He had intended to write a trumpet concerto for the Principal Trumpet of the Leningrad Philharmonic, but keen to showcase his own talents as a pianist, he added more and more piano, until it eventually took centre stage. It is full of humour, parody and musical quotes. The soloists in this performance are the internationally acclaimed concert pianist Barry Douglas and Niall Keatley, Principal Trumpet of the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra - both from Northern Ireland.
Staying with Russia, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade rounds off the concert in style. Inspired by the tales of The Arabian Nights, the composer described it as 鈥渁 kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images鈥� scattered through four movements. Here the solo violin represents Scheherezade himself, with the trombones and basses portraying the cruel Sultan.
During the interval Kathy speaks with Barry Douglas, incorporating a track from his album latest release.
Lutos艂awski: Little Suite for Orchestra
Shostakovich: Concerto No.1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Ulster Orchestra
Anna Su艂kowska-Migo艅
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Witold Lutos艂awski
Little Suite
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni. -
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Concerto No.1 for piano, trumpet and strings
Performer: Barry Douglas. Performer: Niall Keatley. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni. -
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
November (Troika) from The Seasons
Performer: Barry Douglas.- Tchaikovsky Plus One Piano Works, Vol.1.
- Chandos.
- 11.
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Franz Schubert
Minuet and Trio from Piano Sonata No.18 in G major, D894
Performer: Barry Douglas.- Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol 7.
- Chandos.
- 7.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni. -
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Quartet in E flat major for strings
Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.- HYPERION.
Broadcast
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