Myths & Magic: Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns

Borodin Overture: Prince Igor
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
Fauré Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945 version)

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Anna Sułkowska-Migoń: Conuctor
Laura Van Der Heijden: Cello

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The fanfares of Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor herald both the start of the Orchestra’s new Season.

A programme packed with classic tales of mythical gardens with mysterious residents, heroism, love thwarted and fulfilled, a treacherous ogre, beautiful princesses, brave princes and a magical bird with opulent feathers that will save the day.

Saint-Saëns’s beautiful Cello Concerto No. 1 is a piece that swirls and ripples around a delicate, music-box style minuet, before building to a pyrotechnic conclusion – the perfect counterpart to the brilliant, technicolour feathers of Stravinsky’s Firebird.

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Doors open: 6.30pm approx.
Pre-concert talk: 7.00pm
Concert start: 7.45pm
Concert end: 9.45pm approx.

You may also like the following events from Ulster Orchestra:

• Next Friday, 8th August, 09:00 pm, BBC Proms: 100 Years of the Shipping Forecast with the ulster Orchestra in Belfast
• Next month, 15th August, 07:45 pm, BBC Radio 3 Summer Invitation Concert: Departures, Returns and Colour in Belfast
• Next month, 20th August, 01:05 pm, BBC Radio 3 Summer Invitation Concert: Majestic Evocation in Belfast

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