{"id":4042,"date":"2012-03-07T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2012-03-07T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:29:41","slug":"orchestra%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98brilliant%e2%80%99-concerts-hit-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/03\/orchestra%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98brilliant%e2%80%99-concerts-hit-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchestra\u2019s \u2018Brilliant\u2019 Concerts hit the road"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ulster Orchestra\u2019s Principal Oboe, Christopher Blake outside Belfast\u2019s Ulster Hall, with the \u2018big ticket\u2019 to the Baroque Brilliance concerts which opens tonight in the Millennium Forum in Derry. Photo Credit Aaron McCracken\/Harrison Photography <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With spring just around the corner, all four seasons come to L\/Derry, Lisburn and Armagh this week as the Ulster Orchestra hits the road today (7 March) for a mini regional tour that includes one of the most popular and evocative pieces of music in the repertoire, Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons, in Baroque Brilliance, a concert of timeless Baroque classics.<\/p>\n

The first concert in this JTI Regional Tour takes place in Derry\u2019s Millennium Forum tonight at 7.30pm and sees Northern Ireland\u2019s only professional symphony orchestra perform the Four Seasons alongside music by Bach, Purcell and Handel\u2019s uplifting Water Music. The UO will be at the ISLAND Arts Centre, Lisburn on Thursday (8 March, 8pm) and Armagh\u2019s Market Place Theatre on Friday (9 March, 8pm).<\/p>\n

The concerts, which are under the direction of the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s Hungarian-born Leader, Tam\u00e1s Kocsis – who performs Vivaldi\u2019s masterpiece – is also the soloist with the UO\u2019s Christopher Blake in Bach\u2019s Concerto for Violin and Oboe.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to the tour Tam\u00e1s said, \u201cHaving performed with Barry Douglas last Friday and the historic joint concert with the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra on Sunday, this is a busy time for the Orchestra, as we end this week with a family concert back in Belfast this Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I am very much looking to Baroque Brilliance and playing the Bach Double with Chris, as he is a dear friend and a fantastic oboist, so I am sure we are going to have lots of fun performing this wonderful piece.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Four Seasons always presents a challenge, being very well known and very transparent. No wonder it’s popular with audiences and performers alike, it is a beautiful set of Concertos,\u201d Tam\u00e1s said.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t More…<\/p>\n

Also looking forward to the concerts, Christopher Blake, the UO\u2019s Principal Oboe player said, \u201cNothing beats live music and to hear an orchestra in full flow playing some great pieces of music is quite something. Beats CDs or your iPod!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Talking about the Bach Double concerto Christopher said, \u201cI have played this amazing concerto with the last two leaders of the Orchestra and am really looking forward to performing it with Tam\u00e1s who is an extraordinary violinist.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need a lot of stamina for it because the music never stops which is unusual for a wind concerto. It is also a challenge to play in different places too, as the environment and acoustics differ from place to place, but we are all really looking forward to this mini tour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Tickets are available from each of the venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With spring just around the corner, all four seasons come to L\/Derry, Lisburn and Armagh this week as the Ulster Orchestra hits the road today (7 March) for a mini regional tour that includes one of the most popular and evocative pieces of music in the repertoire, Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons, in Baroque Brilliance, a concert … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}