The Ulster Orchestra plays Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet

Linton Stephens continues his week of programmes featuring specially recorded performances from the UK and abroad. Pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja and Mihály Berecz perform one of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies in the German town of Hitzacker, and we hear Mendelssohn from former Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the Van Kuijk Quartet. This week’s featured ensemble The Ulster Orchestra opens the programme with Dvorak’s energetic Carnival Overture and also play the Variations for Orchestra by Grazyna Bacewicz and a selection of highlights from Prokofiev’s deeply sensuous ballet music for Romeo & Juliet.

Antonin Dvorak
Carnival Overture
Ulster Orchestra
Killian Farrell (conductor)

Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C flat minor
Elisabeth Leonskaja & Mihály Berecz (pianos)

Grazyna Bacewicz
Variations for Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra
Matthew Lynch (conductor)

Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12
Van Kuijk Quartet

Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet (selection)
Ulster Orchestra
Anna Rakitina (conductor)

Karol Szymanowski
String Quartet No 1 in C, Op. 37 (Andantino semplice)
Belcea Quartet

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