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The Ulster Orchestra, the region's only full-time symphony orchestra was formed in 1966. This, the penultimate programme of the Discovery and Innovation weekend, explores the music of the island of Ireland, beginning with Belfast-born Brian Irvine's Secret Cinema, an instant hit with Radio 3 listeners at its 2006 premiere. The lushly Romantic violin concerto of prolific Irish composer Ina Boyle, pupil of Vaughan Williams, was only rediscovered in 2010. Deirdre Gribbin's Empire States, a thrilling orchestral tour de force asks what has happened to today's America, whereas Stanford's Irish Rhapsody No. 4 is a poetic, folk song-infused evocation of misty Lough Neagh.

Introduced by Andrew McGregor.

Deirdre Gribbin: Empire States
Ulster Orchestra
Celso Antunes (conductor)

Ina Boyle: Violin Concerto
Ulster Orchestra
Catherine Leonard (violin)
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor)

Brian Irvine: Secret Cinema
Ulster Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor)

Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No. 4 in A minor Op.141 (The Fisherman of Loch Neagh and What He Saw)
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)