Get ready to be love-struck by the Ulster Orchestra as they weave a tale of star-crossed notes with their performance of 'Star-Cross'd Lovers' at the Ulster Hall, Belfast on 06 December 2024!
Wagner Prelude: Tristan und Isolde
Kenneth Hesketh Uncoiling the River
Prokofiev Selections from Romeo & Juliet
ANNA RAKITINA CONDUCTOR
CLARE HAMMOND PIANO
A tragic love story is perfect for the drama of ballet and opera – if not for the story’s protagonists! Prokofiev’s ballet depicts the most infamous ‘star-cross’d lovers’ of them all, Romeo and Juliet, with music that is a brilliant realisation of Shakespeare’s play and some of Prokofiev’s most memorable and instantly appealing work, while Wagner’s Prelude from Tristan und Isolde is a lushly hypnotic, yearning depiction of two more tragic lovers, this time from Renaissance romance.
Pianist Clare Hammond performs Kenneth Hesketh’s Uncoiling the River, a piece which loops round itself, sinuous and labyrinthine, and explores our perception of the passing of time.
The Ulster Orchestra is grateful to the PRS Foundation’s Resonate Fund, which supports the performance of Kenneth Hesketh’s Uncoiling the River.
