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Presented by Martin Handley

Pieter Wispelwey joins the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Rory Macdonald, in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No.1. Also on the programme: Schubert's Symphony No 9.

Shostakovich's Cello Concerto, written for Rostropovich, shares many features with Elgar's Concerto. It's concise, urgent and emotionally direct with an elegiac central movement.
Schubert's glorious Ninth - a work never performed in his lifetime - was the "grand symphony" he always wanted to write and the one that clearly marked him out as Beethoven's successor. The finale ends this concert with exuberant joy.

Beethoven: Overture: Coriolan
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.1
Schubert: Symphony No.9 in C, Great

Pieter Wispelwey, cello
Ulster Orchestra
Rory Macdonald, conductor

Followed by excerpts from the Wigmore Hall's Decade by Decade - 100 Years of German Song, with baritone Florian Boesch and pianist Malcolm Martineau performing songs from the 1870s.