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Presented by Petroc Trelawny
Takuo Yuasa conducts the Ulster Orchestra in The Walk to Paradise Garden by Delius and Tchaikovsky's First Symphony. They're joined by soprano Elizabeth Watts in Nuits d'脙漏t脙漏 by Berlioz.
The world of Shakespeare hovers behind this concert live from the Ulster hall, Belfast. Walk to Paradise Garden is an orchestral interlude from the opera A Village Romeo und Juliet by Delius, the story of which is based on Shakespeare's famous story. Hector Berlioz had a passion for the works of Shakespeare, and the title Les nuits d'脙漏t脙漏 is a nod in the direction of A Midsummer Night's Dream, though the work is setting of poems of romantic longing - La Com脙漏die de la mort - by the high romantic poet Th脙漏ophile Gautier. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 is titled Winter Dreams, and although totally original, the elfin mood of the scherzo might have stepped out of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream.

Delius: The Walk to Paradise Garden
Berlioz: Nuits d'脙漏t脙漏
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Takuo Yuasa conductor
Ulster Orchestra.