Myths & Magic: Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns

Name: Myths & Magic: Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns
Start: 2025-09-26T19:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-26T21:45:00+01:00
Location: Ulster Hall

Schedule

Fri Sep 26 2025 at 07:45 pm to 09:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Ulster Hall | Belfast, NI

Borodin Overture: Prince Igor
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1
Fauré Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945 version)
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Anna Sułkowska-Migoń: Conuctor
Laura Van Der Heijden: Cello
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The fanfares of Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor herald both the start of the Orchestra’s new Season.
A programme packed with classic tales of mythical gardens with mysterious residents, heroism, love thwarted and fulfilled, a treacherous ogre, beautiful princesses, brave princes and a magical bird with opulent feathers that will save the day.

Saint-Saëns’s beautiful Cello Concerto No. 1 is a piece that swirls and ripples around a delicate, music-box style minuet, before building to a pyrotechnic conclusion – the perfect counterpart to the brilliant, technicolour feathers of Stravinsky’s Firebird.
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Doors open: 6.30pm approx.
Pre-concert talk: 7.00pm
Concert start: 7.45pm
Concert end: 9.45pm approx.