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Ulster Orchestra: Wagner, Liszt and Brahms

Rafael Payare conducts the Ulster Orchestra, in Wagner's Overture to Tannhauser, Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2 with soloist Kirill Gerstein and Brahms's Symphony No 2.

Rafael Payare conducts the Ulster Orchestra in an all-Romantic programme. Introduced by John Toal, music of the German Romantics bookends this Ulster Hall concert: Richard Wagner's bracing Overture to his 1845 opera Tannhäuser; and Johannes Brahms's Symphony No.2, written on holiday during the summer of 1877 in Pörtschach - an alpine area by the Wörthersee which also inspired Mahler and Berg.

Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 is at the heart of the programme: a work revised numerous times before its publication in 1863. It's a virtuosic partnership between piano and orchestra: one which is in turn lyrical and introspective, then triumphant and dramatic.

The soloist is the Russian-born American pianist Kirill Gerstein. He will also be speaking with John Toal during the interval.

Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S.125
Brahms: Symphony No.2 in D major, Op. 73

Kirill Gerstein (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor).

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Tue 13 Mar 2018 19:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannhäuser (Overture)

    Conductor: Rafael Payare. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.

  • Franz Liszt

    Concerto No.2 in A Major, S.125 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Conductor: Rafael Payare. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.

  • Franz Liszt

    Etudes d'execution transcendante, S.139, No.10 in F minor for piano

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • Kirill Gerstein Liszt Études d'exécution transcendante.
    • Myrios.
    • 10.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Scherzo from Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16 for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: James Gaffigan.
    • KIRILL GERSTEIN - TCHAIKOVSKY & PROKOFIEV PIANO CONCERTOS.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 5.

  • Johannes Brahms

    2nd movement from Sonata in F minor, Op.120`1 for viola and piano

    Performer: Kirill Gerstein. Performer: Tabea Zimmermann.
    • TABEA ZIMMERMANN / KIRILL GERSTEIN - SONATAS FOR VIOLA & PIANO VOL. 2.
    • Myrios Classics.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.73

    Conductor: Rafael Payare. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.

  • Clara Schumann

    Piano Trio in G minor

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Phillips.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise-fantasy in A flat major, Op 61

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Late Masterpieces, Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Tue 13 Mar 2018 19:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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