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Siegfried and Schubert

Digital Concert

Date

16 May 2021

Venue

Waterfront Hall

Tickets

£10.00

The Ulster Orchestra are bringing Siegfried and Schubert digital concert on Friday 16 April 2021.

Irish conductor Robert Houlihan leads the Ulster Orchestra in a programme that starts in one of orchestral music’s most personal moments, but which wakes up to finish in bustling Schubertian style!

Wagner’s gorgeous Siegfried Idyll was a birthday present for his beloved wife Cosima, whose birthday was on Christmas Eve; she was woken by the piece’s first performance, given by 15 players on the stairs and landing in the couple’s house. Every melody in the piece had a private meaning for the couple and it is Wagner at his most intimate and tender.

Dobrinka Tabakova is a Bulgarian-born, London-based composer with a strong affinity to the music of Schubert; his work has been part of her childhood and she has regularly arranged his work as part of her studies. Her Fantasy Homage to Schubert is a shimmering, suspenseful tone picture inspired by Schubert’s Phantasie in C major for violin and piano; tremulous strings create an uncertain mood before the opening of Schubert’s Phantasie soars out like the sun bursting from behind a cloud and leads the piece to a gentle, peaceful conclusion.

This homage leads us to Schubert himself and his 3rd Symphony, written in 1815 during the most productive year of his life. The 18 year old was still working as a schoolteacher and taking composition lessons twice a week with Antoni Salieri, but nonetheless he still also managed to compose over 200 works, including four operas, two masses, two symphonies and 145 songs! He started his Third Symphony on May 24 and finished it on June 19; while it is short by Schubert’s standards and strongly inspired by Haydn, Mozart and even early Beethoven, it nonetheless is possible to hear his own distinctive voice and how he would develop his symphonic writing.

It is poised and charming, with plenty of glorious melodies (as befits a prolific composer of songs) and dance music that will leave you uplifted and full of cheer!
Venue

Waterfront Hall

Tickets

£10.00

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SHOW INFORMATION

START TIME: 7pm

This concert will last approximately 60 - 70 minutes and will be available to view on demand for 30 days after the original performance.

Programme: £2.00


Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Dobrinka Tabakova Fantasy Homage to Schubert

Schubert Symphony No.3

Conductor Robert Houlihan


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