Ulster Orchestra
Spring Sunlight
- When
- Fri 12 Mar · 19:45
- Where
- Ulster Hall, Belfast
The programme
Elsa Barraine Symphony No. 2 Voïna Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Camille Pépin Un monde nouveau Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 3
The evening
Ben Glassberg ConductorPlínio Fernandes Guitar
This programme has all the freshness and brilliance of a morning in early Spring.
Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez blazes with Spanish sunlight and passion and has a gorgeously lyrical central movement that has been popularised through diverse arrangements such as Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain album and the 1996 film Brassed Off!
We also bring a focus to female French composers with a work by Elsa Barraine from the early 20th century that deserves to be much more widely known and a piece by Camille Pépin, one of France’s leading living composers. Sibelius’s luminous Third Symphony sounds like a Finnish forest bursting into leaf and closes the concert.
On stage
Ben Glassberg
Conductor