Friday Night is Music Night Live: Celtic Symphonies
Friday Night is Music Night Live: Celtic Symphonies at Ulster Hall, Belfast
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Friday Night is Music Night Live: Celtic Symphonies £38.00
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About the show
PROGRAMME
Hamilton Harty: The Fair Day (An Irish Symphony)
Charles Villiers: Stanford Irish Rhapsody No. 1
John Field: orch. Hamilton Harty Polka (from A John Field Suite)
Joan Trimble: Air (Suite for Strings)
Max Bruch: Finale fromScottish Fantasy
Felix Mendelssohn: Bartholdy Hebrides Overture
Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Malcolm Arnold: The Padstow Lifeboat
Camille Saint-Saëns: Rhapsodie bretonne
Arnold Bax: Tintagel
PERFORMERS
Anna Handler: Conductor
Aoife Ní Bhriain: Violin
Katie Derham: Presenter
The BBC Radio 3 institution that is Friday Night Is Music Night is coming to Belfast to join in our 60th anniversary celebrations!
The BBC Radio 3 institution that is Friday Night Is Music Night is coming to Belfast to join in our 60thanniversary celebrations! Anna Handler leads the festivities in a programme broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and presented by Katie Derham that will be a celebration of symphonic music with Celtic roots, from around the British Isles and across Europe. Join the BBC to raise a glass to our 60th.
PLEASE NOTE: To facilitate this live broadcast, the concert will start at 7.30pm. This is a change to the time published in our 2026/27 Season Brochure.
Featuring - The Ulster Orchestra
Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Ulster Orchestra was formed in 1966 and has established itself as one of the major symphony orchestras in the United Kingdom.