Ulster Hall, Belfast Tonight 7.45pm, Wed 1.05pm Adm free 0044-3709011227
The BBC’s summer series of free invitation concerts by the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast has a Russian theme this year. The series is already in its stride, and will include the Ulster Orchestra debut of the RTÉ NSO’s principal conductor, Alan Buribayev, on August 24th.
There’s a German interloper in the first of this week’s concerts, when Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is played by Russian violinist Alexandra Soumm (pictured), a current member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme. But the rest of the evening, conducted by Howard Shelley, is all Russian: Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir d’un lieu cher and Symphony No 2 (the Little Russian).
This week's second concert, at lunchtime next Wednesday, has Rumon Gamba conducting the Prelude to Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Prokofiev's A Summer Day, and Stravinsky's Jeu de Cartes.
