大象传媒

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

In a concert entitled Mirth and Melancholy, the Ulster Orchestra under Finnish conductor Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen perform music by Weber, Beethoven and Stanford at the Ulster Hall, Belfast.

The programme begins with the overture to Weber's last opera, Oberon - a concert piece that has become much more popular than the opera itself, picturing a land of fairies and the spirits of air, earth and water - which is followed by Dutch pianist Ronald Brautigam in Beethoven's last Piano Concerto.

A performance of Stanford's Fifth Symphony concludes the concert. Inspired by Milton's L'Allegro ed il penseroso, it contrasts mirth and melancholy.

Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen (conductor)

Weber: Overture (Oberon)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor)
Stanford: Symphony No 5 in D (L'Allegro ed il penseroso)

Followed by a focus on Beethoven's violin sonatas, featured in recordings from the 大象传媒 archives.

Beethoven: Sonata in F major, Op 24 ("Spring")
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano)