Dreams are fleeting, unpredictable and all too prone to turn to nightmare – territory ripe for the imagination of a composer to run riot! This concert starts in the hazy, half-remembered dreams of a slumbering faun in a Mediterranean forest on a sunny afternoon, before Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata takes us to a night where ‘the wine of youth… is fermenting in the veins of God’. That fermentation takes things darker still and we visit the nightmarish world of obsessive desire in Berlioz’s epic, dramatic Symphonie fantastique.

Dreams & Visions

Belfast

Dreams are fleeting, unpredictable and all too prone to turn to nightmare – territory ripe for the imagination of a composer to run riot! This concert starts in the hazy, half-remembered dreams of a slumbering faun in a Mediterranean forest on a sunny afternoon, before Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata takes us to a night where ‘the wine of youth... is fermenting in the veins of God’. That fermentation takes things darker still and we visit the nightmarish world of obsessive desire in Berlioz’s epic, dramatic Symphonie fantastique.

EPSG:4326

Ulster Orchestra: Dreams & Visions

Ulster Hall

The concert opens and closes with two groundbreaking youth works by Richard Strauss, and between these there will be room for beautiful ballet music by Tchaikovsky and a world premiere of a brand new trumpet concerto by British Stephen McNeff with the orchestra's own Jonathan Clarke in the soloist role.

Anthony Hermus

Events

Past events

Mar 6, 2026

Dreams & Visions · Ulster Orchestra

Mar 6, 2026

Ulster Orchestra: Dreams & Visions · Ulster Hall

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Don Juan by Strauss

Aalborg Symfoniorkester

Conductor in Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz

Ulster Orchestra

Conductor in Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Debussy

Ulster Orchestra

Conductor in Viola Sonata by Clarke

Ulster Orchestra

Conductor in Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks by Strauss

Aalborg Symfoniorkester

Conductor in Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky

Aalborg Symfoniorkester

Conductor in Trumpet Concerto by McNeff

Aalborg Symfoniorkester

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