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📅 Friday 12 March 2027 | Doors open for pre-concert talk 7pm | Concert 7:45pm📍 Ulster Hall, Belfast
🎟️ Tickets from £12 — £38
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This programme has all the freshness and brilliance of a morning in early spring.
Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez blazes with Spanish sunlight and passion, its gorgeously lyrical central movement made famous through arrangements like Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain and the film Brassed Off. Guitarist Plínio Fernandes joins conductor Ben Glassberg for this Spanish classic.
We also shine a light on female French composers, with an early 20th century work by Elsa Barraine that deserves to be far better known, alongside a piece by Camille Pépin, one of France's leading living composers. Sibelius's luminous Third Symphony, sounding like a Finnish forest bursting into leaf, closes the concert.
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Programme
Elsa Barraine — Symphony No. 2 'Voïna'
Joaquín Rodrigo — Concierto de Aranjuez
Camille Pépin — Un monde nouveau
Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 3
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Performers
Ed Liebrecht, Conductor | Plínio Fernandes, Guitar
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Pre-Concert Talk — 7pm, Main Auditorium
Join Artistic Director Patrick McCarthy and award-winning writer, broadcaster and historian Dr Leah Broad, author of Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World, for a conversation before the concert. Free to ticket holders — just arrive a little early.
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Event venue
Ulster Hall, Ulster Hall, 30 Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7FF, United Kingdom
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