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From the New World

Conductor Daniele Rustioni joins the Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster Hall in Belfast for a concert of works by Bacewicz, Bartók and Dvořák.

The Ulster Orchestra are joined by their Chief Conductor in a concert which celebrates the music of composers who wrote music while in exile or amidst the spectre of war, beginning with Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz's Overture for Orchestra which was written during the German occupation of Poland in 1943. The following year would see her eventually fleeing Warsaw, and the overture was played for the first time at the end of the war in Krakow at a festival of contemporary Polish music.

The various sections of the orchestra all have a chance to shine in Bartók's wonderfully colourful Concerto for Orchestra, written the same year as the Bacewicz Overture, but composed in the United States after he left his native Hungary due to the outbreak of World War II. Known for its inventive and lively orchestration, the work received its premiere in 1944 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductor Serge Koussevitzky.

Finally, the work from which this evening's concert gets its name - Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, more commonly known as the "New World" Symphony, was composed in 1893 while Dvorak was living in America at the invitation of the music patron, Jeannette Thurber who offered him the opportunity to become director of the National Conservatory of Music of America. Before the work had its premiere, the composer gave it the subtitle “Z nového světa” (From the New World).

During the interval, presenter John Toal will be speaking with conductor Daniele Rustioni.

Ulster Hall, Belfast
Ulster Orchestra
Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Bacewicz - Overture for Orchestra
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Dvořák - Symphony No.9 From the New World

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Nov 2022 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Overture for Orchestra

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni.

  • Béla Bartók

    Concerto for Orchestra, Sz.116

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni.

  • Béla Bartók

    Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.56

    Music Arranger: Andrew Wilson. Ensemble: Adelphi Saxophone Quartet.
    • Simply four saxophones.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 11.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Nachts

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Rendezvous with Korngold.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Finale from Quartet No.12 In F Major, Op.96 (American)

    Ensemble: Wihan Quartet.
    • Antonín DVORÁK.
    • Nimbus Alliance.
    • 2.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 (From The New World)

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni.

  • R. Nathaniel Dett

    In the bottoms - characteristic suite for piano

    Performer: Clipper Erickson.
    • My Cup Runneth Over.
    • NAVONA.
    • 6.

  • Leo Brouwer

    Berceuse

    Performer: John Williams.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Kyrie (Missa San Ignacio)

    Ensemble: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • New World Symphonies - Baroque Music from L:atin America: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey S.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Nov 2022 19:30
    BBC Radio 3