Performance on 3 - 15/05/2008

Ian Skelly introduces a concert given by the Ulster Orchestra featuring predominantly Russian music, with a conductor who is one of the many young talents to come from Finland. The programme includes the virtuosic Piano Concerto No 3 by Prokofiev, while the final work demonstrates the lighter side of Shostakovich as a symphonist. Haydn: Symphony No 96 (Miracle) Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 Alex Kobrin (piano) The Ulster Orchestra Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen (conductor).