BBC Radio 3 New Music Show Concert featuring music by Ed Bennett, Greg Caffrey, Frank Corcoran and Anselm McDonnell

A special FREE BBC Radio 3 New Music Show Invitation Concert at the Ulster Hall on 12 January 2023.

Presenting the Ulster Orchestra, conducted by David Brophy. Featuring contemporary works by Ed Bennett, Greg Caffrey, Frank Corcoran and Anselm McDonnell.

The Ulster Orchestra is joined by guitarist Craig Ogden for the premiere of Greg Caffrey’s “Environments II”, a work written for solo guitar with strings and percussion, and mezzo-soprano Sarah Richmond performing Frank Corcoron’s “My Alto Rhapsodies” based on his poems from a collection called “Haikus”.

There will also be performances of works by composers Anselm McDonnell and Ed Bennett. Anselm McDonnell’s “Coruscate”- which means bursts of light. 

Ed Bennett’s “Freefalling” is based on Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner world record breaking freefall jump in 2012 from an altitude of 39 kilometres. 

He notes “As he hurtled towards the Earth’s surface he reached a speed of 1357 km and in doing so, he travelled faster than the speed of sound. The music in ‘Freefalling’ was partially inspired by feelings of falling, flying, floating and travelling at uncontrollably high speeds”.

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