Distant Shores: Debussy and Ravel

Name: Distant Shores: Debussy and Ravel
Start: 2025-10-24T19:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-24T21:45:00+01:00
Location: Ulster Hall

Schedule

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 07:45 pm to 09:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Ulster Hall | Belfast, NI

Ravel Suite: Ma mère l'oye
Michael Gallen: Bád on Alltár (UO co-commission)
L. Boulanger (orch. Hesketh): Trois Morceaux
Debussy: Nocturnes
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Fiona Monbet: Conductor
Michael Gallen: Piano
Maria Ryan: Voice/Fiddle
Dónal O’Connor: Voice/Fiddle
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh: voice/Flute
Belfast Philharmonic Choir
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Take a step out of the every day and visit worlds of the imagination.
In Ravel’s Ma mère l'oye, we look into the world of much-loved fairy tales such as Beauty and the Beast and Tom Thumb.
Michael Gallen’s Bád on Alltár, which translates as ‘Boat From Beyond’, is a fusion of Irish Traditional and classical musics drawing on the Celtic idea of the ‘thin veil’ between reality and the otherworld, bringing something new and previously unimagined to change our lives.
Kenneth Hesketh’s arrangement of Lili Boulanger’s Three Pieces for Piano takes us to two imagined gardens and a cheerful parade, while Debussy’s Nocturnes evocatively depict the procession of clouds across the sky, the bustle of a festival and the sea-songs of the mythical sirens, all inspired by paintings by James McNeill Whistler.
In Partnership with Belfast International Arts Festival
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Doors open: 6.30pm approx.
Pre-concert talk: 7.00pm
Concert start: 7.45pm
Concert end: 9.45pm approx.