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

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Chloé Van Soeterstède: Conductor
Nadège Rochat: Cello 

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One of the great masterworks, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a wistful, beautiful piece that falls towards the end of Elgar’s composing career, when he wondered if he still 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.