Hallé September - October Concerts at The Bridgewater Hall
Opus One Concerts – Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony
Thursday 22 September, 7.30pm
Sunday 25 September, 7.30pm
Wednesday 28 September, 2.15pm
Tchaikovsky
Liszt
Beethoven
- Fantasy Overture: Hamlet
- Piano Concerto No.1
- Symphony No.6, ‘Pastoral’
Conductor
Sir Mark Elder
Featuring
Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano
For our first Opus One concerts of the season, Sir Mark and the orchestra are joined by one
of the finest young pianists in the world, Benjamin Grosvenor, who performs Liszt’s dazzling
First Concerto. As well as being a virtuoso showpiece, the work will also highlight the poetic
qualities Benjamin’s playing has in abundance. ‘No one can love the countryside as much as
I do’, wrote Beethoven, and this love was eloquently expressed in his timeless ‘Pastoral’
symphony. With its depictions of the ‘happy song of the birds’, the ‘sweet murmur of a
brook’, the ‘dreaded storm’ and much more, it never fails to delight and inspire. The concert
begins with Tchaikovsky’s tone poem inspired by Shakespeare’s brooding Prince of
Denmark, Hamlet.
Listen on Soundcloud: Beethoven Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ 1st Movement
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Classical Extravaganza
Saturday 1 October 2016, 7.30pm
Dvořák
Elgar
Rossini
Pachelbel
Shostakovich
Bernstein
Handel
Fauré
Coates
- Carnival Overture
- Enigma Variations: VIII ‘WN’, IX ‘Nimrod’, XIV ‘Finale’
- Overture: William Tell
- Canon
- Romance from ‘The Gadfly’
- Overture: Candide
- Music for the Royal Fireworks: excerpts
- Pavane
- Calling All Workers
Conductor
Stephen Bell
Join us for a feast of the world’s best-loved classical favourites. Our Extravaganzas always
receive a rousing reception and are the perfect introduction to live orchestral music. Hear
Stephen Bell conduct one of Europe’s great orchestras as they perform hit after hit from the
classical world.
Listen on Soundcloud: Dvořák Carnival Overture
Watch on YouTube: The Hallé performing Rossini’s Overture: William Tell
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Beethoven’s Choral Symphony
Thursday 6 October, 7.30pm
Verdi
Beethoven
- Macbeth: scenes
- Symphony No.9, 'Choral'
Conductor
Sir Mark Elder
Featuring
Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Mezzo-Soprano | Scott Hendricks, Baritone | Natalya Romaniw,
Soprano | Madeleine Shaw, Mezzo-Soprano | Allan Clayton, Tenor | Hallé Choir
Sir Mark, the Hallé and the Hallé Choir open the Thursday series in grandly dramatic
fashion. The first half features scenes from Verdi’s Macbeth. Throughout, Verdi strove to
convey Shakespeare’s vivid sense of pity and terror. The selection ends with the famous
sleepwalking scene in which Lady Macbeth descends into madness. Beethoven’s Ninth,
described by Wagner as ‘the ultimate symphony’, also confronts terror and the darker side of
existence. Overall, however, it is an extraordinary journey towards enlightenment that
culminates in a rapturous setting of Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’.
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Opus One Concerts: Night on the Bare Mountain
Wednesday 19 October, 2.15pm
Thursday 20 October, 7.30pm
Sunday 23 October, 7.30pm
Mussorgsky orch. Rimsky-Korsakov
Mozart
Bartók
Borodin
- Night on the Bare Mountain
- Flute and Harp Concerto
- Hungarian Sketches
- Symphony No.2
Conductor
Gergely Madaras
Featuring
Katherine Baker, Flute | Marie Leenhardt, Harp
Two of the Hallé’s principal players, Katherine Baker and Marie Leenhardt are soloists in
Mozart’s lovely Flute and Harp Concerto. It is a work of great delicacy and charm in which
the two instruments complement each other to perfection. In the rest of the programme the
young Hungarian Gergely Madaras, a rising star of the podium, conducts three varied
Eastern European works: Mussorgsky’s devilish Night on the Bare Mountain; Bartók’s
Hungarian Sketches – with their infectious Magyar merriment and melancholy; and finally
Borodin’s stirring Second Symphony, a piece once aptly described as having ‘the flavour of
an ancient Russian epic’. Its finale is an exultant orchestral revel.
Listen on Soundcloud: Mussorgsky orch. Rimsky-Korsakov Night on the Bare Mountain
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A Child of Our Time
Thursday 27 October 7.30pm
Copland
Britten
Tippett
- Fanfare for the Common Man
- Sinfonia da Requiem
- A Child of Our Time
Conductor
Ryan Wigglesworth
Featuring
Sophie Bevan, Soprano | Jennifer Johnston, Mezza-soprano | Mark Padmore, Tenor |
Matthew Brook, Bass-baritone | Hallé Choir
Tippett’s choral masterpiece A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the Second
World War as a protest against ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. Modelled on Handel’s Messiah
and the Passions of J.S. Bach, its emotional essence lies in five spirituals Tippett
incorporated into the score in which the suffering of oppressed people throughout history is
given universal resonance. Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem dates from the same troubled
period as the Tippett and is also an intensely humanistic piece. In the work Britten expresses
anger and despair at the cataclysm beginning to engulf the world. As a precursor to both, the
concert opens with Copland’s great tribute to his fellow Americans, a piece also written
during the same conflict.
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The Music of Star Wars Episodes I – VII
Saturday 29 October, 7.30pm
Conductor
Stephen Bell
Featuring
Tom Redmond, Presenter | Hallé Youth Choir
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …
Feel the full force of the Hallé as we bring the highlights of John Williams’ music from every
episode of Star Wars to the stage of The Bridgewater Hall. Packed with some of the most
recognisable cinematic themes from The Phantom Menace to The Force Awakens this
concert packs more punch than an Imperial blaster. Dress to impress and relive the rise and
fall of the Empire in one action packed evening.
May the Force be with you.
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Pre-concert Event, 6.15pm
The Science behind Star Wars
Join us for a panel discussion with Tom Redmond and experts from across the scientific
community, and learn what is fact and what is fiction in the Star Wars universe.
The pre-concert event will take place in the auditorium and is free for concert ticket holders.
In partnership with Manchester Science Festival.
Ticket Information
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or in person at The Box Office, The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley St., Manchester M2
3WS.
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