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 60^th anniversary celebrations!

The BBC Radio 3 institution that is Friday Night Is Music Night is coming to Belfast to join in our 60^thanniversary 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.