Soaring Spirits

Music by composers Saint-Saëns, Elgar and Sibelius performed by the Ulster Orchestra with guest conductor Chloé Van Soeterstède and cellist Nadège Rochat.

One of the great masterworks, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a wistful, beautiful piece that falls towards the end of his composing career, when he wondered if he had any musical relevance, and there’s a sense of solitude – even loneliness – that haunts this work.

Elsewhere, the Ulster Orchestra brass take to the skies, first in the sun chariot of the Greek God Helios in Saint-Saëns’s Phaeton Overture and then as a flock of whooper swans in that famous finale of Sibelius’s triumphant Fifth Symphony.

PROGRAMME

• Saint-Saëns Overture: Phaeton
• Elgar Cello Concerto
• Sibelius Symphony No.5

CHLOÉ VAN SOETERSTÈDE CONDUCTOR
NADÈGE ROCHAT CELLO