Ulster Orchestra
Forest Murmurs
- When
- Fri 9 Apr · 19:45
- Where
- Ulster Hall, Belfast
The programme
Ian Wilson
Goodnight stars, goodnight air (goodnight noises everywhere)
Franz Schreker
Romantic Suite
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 8
The evening
Kevin John Edusei ConductorIoana Petcu-Colan Violin
It’s time to leave all external distractions at the Ulster Hall door and bathe in a concert full of rich melody and lush orchestration.
Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony finds absolute joy in the natural world, from its opening flute solo that sounds like birdsong to its whirling dervish of a finale. The mood is warm and uplifting, sounding like sunlight diffused through the trees. Schreker’s Romantic Suite brings a little more darkness to contrast the sun; this is music where things not quite of this world sit in the shadows, just out of reach. And the evening opens with a work by Ian Wilson that invokes the simplicity of the children’s book Goodnight Moon to bring the noises of the day down to a gentle murmur.
On stage
Kevin John Edusei
Conductor