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Songs of Love and Loss

Ulster Orchestra

Date

04 October 2019

Venue

Ulster Hall

Tickets

£10.00 - £32.00

Ulster Orchestra present Songs of Love & Loss at the Ulster Hall on 04 October 2019 with conductor Jan VanSteen.

In 1857, Richard Wagner and his then wife Minna were living in a cottage in the grounds of property belonging to wealthy silk merchant Otto Wesendonck and his wife Mathilde.

Wagner and Mathilde embarked on an affair which, while personally destructive, produced the beautiful Wesendonck Lieder, five songs for female voice. The literary and soulful Mathilde provided the texts, while the music shows Wagner at his most vulnerable, oscillating between delusional distress and exuberant euphoria. Elgar’s Second Symphony was also written in a maelstrom of emotion. There was his relationship with his muse at the time, Alice Stuart-Wortley, to whom he wrote that he had 'shewn my soul' in this music and he was deeply affected by the death of several close friends as well as King Edward VII, to whom the piece was dedicated. The resulting symphony demonstrates Elgar’s absolute mastery of orchestral colour as it combines his private doubts and dreams in a vast and beautiful work.

To open the concert, it is with enormous gratitude to the PRS Foundation’s Resonate programme that the Orchestra is able to perform Howard Skempton’s first major work for orchestra, Lento. This serenely beautiful work is based on several chorales and is hypnotic – fans of Barber’s Adagio for Strings are sure to fall for its enigmatic simplicity.

  • Howard Skempton Lento
  • Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
  • Jac van Steen Conductor
  • Katherine Broderick Soprano

Supported by PRS Foundation’s Resonate programme

Venue

Ulster Hall

Tickets

£10.00 - £32.00

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