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Daniele Rustioni brings a magical spell to the Ulster Orchestra’s season opener

Alban Gerhardt, Daniele Rustioni and the Ulster Orchestra

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Daniele Rustioni conducts the Ulster Orchestra

© Ulster Orchestra

By Leighton Jones, 24 September 2023

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“Belfast is in for a wonderful year of music-making”

Reviewed at Ulster Hall, Belfast on 22 September 2023

Dukas, The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Prokofiev, Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, Op.125

Bach, Cello suite no. 6 in D major, BWV1012: Prelude

Borodin, Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé: Suite no. 2

Alban Gerhardt, Cello

Ulster Orchestra

Daniele Rustioni, Conductor

Exquisite Mozart from Steven Osborne with the Ulster Orchestra

Leighton Jones, 14th February

Championing British musicm the Ulster Orchestra also performs a seldom heard work by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

***11

Peter Moore shines in Joe Chindamo’s trombone concerto in Belfast

Leighton Jones, 18th October

Bernstein, Chindamo and Rachmaninov bring an evening of jazz-inspired music from the streets of New York to a deeply personal Russian symphony.

***11

Suganandarajah and Collins delight in Weber at Belfast’s Ulster Hall

Leighton Jones, 26th January

Leslie Suganandarajah brings an evening of classical elegance with the Ulster Orchestra, while Michael Collins shines in a rarely performed concerto.

****1

Conductor Mihhail Gerts impresses in Belfast

Leighton Jones, 1st December

Mihhail Gerts and Vadym Kholodenko delight in Bartók, while the Ulster Orchestra’s playing pleases in two five-movement symphonic works.

****1

The stars shine brightly in Northern Ireland Opera’s Tosca

Leighton Jones, 16th September

In NIO's annual opera production at the Belfast Grand Opera House, Cameron Menzies directs Puccini's Tosca.

****1

Gabriel Bebeşelea and Simon Trpčeski return to Belfast

Leighton Jones, 21st October

Ligeti, Grieg, Beethoven and 100 metronomes offer an unusual combination from the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast.

****1

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Leighton Jones

Leighton has extensive teaching experience from early years to postgraduate level music. Currently he works as a primary music specialist, visiting instrumental teacher and examiner. As a pianist, he was inspired to play after hearing Moura Lympany at a young age and has a large collection of her recordings. Leighton’s postgraduate studies focussed on his interest in 20th-century English orchestral music, with particular study of Britten, Rawsthorne, Walton and Vaughan Williams. A keen choral singer he has developed a comprehensive knowledge of chiefly British choral music.