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Penny Gore presents music by composers inspired by folk songs from across Europe. The Ulster Orchestra perform music from Ireland, Norway and central Europe.

In the run-up to the 2008 大象传媒 Proms Folk Day, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe. With the Ulster Orchestra performing music from Ireland, Norway and central Europe plus an eclectic mix of live and specially-recorded music inspired by traditional song, alongside 大象传媒 Singers' recordings of folk song arrangements.

Grieg: Lyric suite (arr. for orchestra) (Lyric pieces for piano - Book 5, Op 54)
Ulster Orchestra
Esa Heikkila (conductor)

Vaino Raitio: Four Dances: Tango; Danse grotesque; Humoreski; Valssi
Ulster Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila (conductor)

Harty: An Irish Symphony
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

Joan Trimble: Suite for strings
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

Gorecki: Wislo moja, Wislo szara
Jetse Bremer Komt vrieden in het ronden
大象传媒 Singers
Bob Chilcott (conductor)

Janacek: Lachian dances
Ulster Orchestra
Adrian Leaper (conductor)

Kodaly: Variations on a Hungarian folk-song (The Peacock)
Ulster Orchestra
David Porcelijn (conductor)

Bartok: Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 100 (orch. from 15 Hungarian peasant songs for piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa (conductor)

Archibald James Potter: Gaelic Fantasy No 1 for orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Robert Houlihan (conductor)

Stanford: Irish rhapsody No 1 in D minor, Op 78
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor).

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Mon 14 Jul 2008 14:00

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