BBC Northern Ireland's annual free summer invitation concerts with the Ulster Orchestra focus this year on concertos by Haydn. The series is launched at the Ulster Hall next Friday, when the soloist is the young German cellist Daniel Muller-Schott (right), first prizewinner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for young musicians in Moscow in 1992, and lately a proteg e of Anne-Sophie Mutter, with whom he has played chamber music in major musical centres.
Muller-Schott makes his debut in Haydn's C major Concerto, and will also be heard in Dvorak's Silent Woods - the soloists in each of this year's six BBC concerts will also include a concertante work by another composer. Also in the programme, conducted by that English-music veteran, Vernon Handley, is the G minor Symphony of EJ Moeran, and the evening opens with one of the perkiest of overtures, Smetana's to his comic opera, The Bartered Bride.
