CONCERTS AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER
MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER
≥
2017/18 SEASON
The years since the falling of the Iron Curtain have perhaps increased the fascination with
Russian culture where, as current events continue to demonstrate, nothing is quite what it
seems. This is very much a Russian season, full of contrasts and contradictions!
We begin with Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’, the great ballet that inspired 20th-century
Russian music and much else, and we visit great works by earlier Russian masters,
Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, as well as three of Rachmaninov’s most
deservedly popular works: the ‘Paganini Rhapsody’, the Third Piano Concerto and the
Second Symphony.
Since I heard the London premiere of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony in the early
1960s, almost 30 years after it was completed, suppressed, and lost, the capacity of this
composer’s largest and most powerful symphonies to speak to us about our modern age has
continued to live with me, and I find this music seems to have more and more resonance
with the public as the years go by. This season, we will perform three symphonies forged
in the heat of controversy and against a background of barely-credible personal danger for
Shostakovich.
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Gerard McBurney’s brilliant ‘Beyond the Score’ concept, with the help of actors and film,
illuminates the extraordinary story of the contentious Fourth symphony. We will later
hear the Fifth and the Eighth symphonies, each in a context intended to highlight both the
personal and wider cultural associations behind these two great works.
Throughout the season, great music and great performances are on offer, before we
close with one of Wagner’s greatest masterpieces of music-drama. Some of our finest
instrumental soloists return in concertos by Brahms, Beethoven, Elgar and Mendelssohn,
and there will be new names and talents, soloists and conductors, to appreciate as
always. The Hallé Choir sings Verdi, Handel, Mendelssohn and John Adams and Ryan
Wigglesworth’s new orchestral work receives its Manchester premiere. At long last, we
bring our acclaimed ‘Ring’ cycle to a climax with Wagner’s hero Siegfried braving the flames
to awaken Brünnhilde. I can’t wait!
Sir Mark Elder
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CONTENTS
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‘
vital force
’
The Hallé
CONTINUES After so many decades
to prove itself a
.
THE SUNDAY TIMES
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TCHAIKOVSKY’S
‘PATHÉTIQUE’
CLASSICAL
EXTRAVAGANZA
Thursday 14 September 2017, 7.30pm
Sunday 17 September 2017, 7.30pm
Wednesday 20 September 2017, 2.15pm
Saturday 23 September 2017, 7.30pm
Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’ 8'
32'
44'
Pablo González conductor • Barry Douglas piano
In 1986 Barry Douglas launched his stellar career by winning the Gold Medal
at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. Who better
to perform Tchaikovsky’s beloved First Concerto than the great Ulsterman
himself? Tchaikovsky’s epic symphonic swansong forms the second half of
the programme. A piece of great poignancy and mystery, it begins in dark
shadows, emerges into brilliant light and then descends back into gloom –
a quite remarkable and moving musical journey. Pablo González, making his
third visit to the Hallé, opens this enticing all-Russian programme with
Rimsky-Korsakov’s resplendent, richly melodic May Night Overture.
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Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Bernstein Overture: West Side Story
Fauré Pavane
Bizet March of the Toreadors
Elgar Chanson de Matin
Walton Crown Imperial
Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie
Grainger Londonderry Air
Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee
Elgar Nimrod from the ‘Enigma’ Variations
Borodin Polovtsian Dances
Stephen Bell conductor • Gareth Small trumpet
Trumpets herald the start of the Hallé’s Pops concerts with Copland’s Fanfare,
Haydn’s famous concerto and a host of the world’s best-loved classics.
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THE FIREBIRD
Thursday 5 October 2017, 7.30pm
Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Stravinsky The Firebird (1910) 10'
25'
48'
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Sir Mark and the Hallé open the Thursday Series with Stravinsky’s runaway
success written for Diaghilev’s second season of Ballets Russes in Paris. A
beguiling and exotic telling of a Russian fairy tale, The Firebird, takes us on a
magical journey from an enchanted forest through dreams, dances and
games, from darkness and death, to light and rebirth. The brilliant and
thought-provoking Alexander Gavrylyuk is soloist in Rachmaninov’s great
Paganini Rhapsody, arguably that composer’s defining work for piano and
orchestra. ‘This one’s for my agent’ Rachmaninov said of the work’s ravishing
eighteenth variation. The concert begins with Debussy’s ground-breaking
orchestral prelude, based on a poem by Mallarmé in which a faun (represented
by a solo flute) sees two beautiful nymphs and, drifting in and out of sleep,
savours the exquisite memory.
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Elder’s orchestra,
now demonstrably
world-class,
the strings sounding
silkier
than ever before.
THE SUNDAY TIMES
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THE BEST OF
BRITISH CINEMA
PICTURES AT AN
EXHIBITION
Saturday 7 October 2017, 7.30pm
Thursday 12 October 2017, 7.30pm
Wednesday 18 October 2017, 2.15pm
Sunday 22 October 2017, 7.30pm
The concert includes
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Walton
Four Weddings And A Funeral: Carrie’s Bedroom Bennett
The Bridge On The River Kwai Arnold
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Sherman & Sherman
Chariots Of Fire Vangelis
Wallace and Gromit: Theme and Chase Nott
James Bond Medley Barry arr. Black
Out Of Africa Barry
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines Goodwin
Love Actually: Glasgow Love Theme Armstrong
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Hedwig’s Theme John Williams
Sherlock Suite Arnold/Price
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra Ravel Boléro Mussorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition 16'
8'
16'
33'
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Sergio Castelló López clarinet
Hallé Pops conductor Stephen Bell guides us through a festival of British film
favourites with scores packed full of drama, excitement and comedy.
These delectable concerts add French dressing to Spanish, American and
Russian ingredients. The Hallé’s principal clarinettist Sergio Castelló López is
soloist in Debussy’s Rhapsody. It ends with a joyful celebration of the home
of jazz, New Orleans. Either side of this are two Ravel works celebrating
Spain and its great dance traditions. The famous Boléro is a masterpiece
of orchestration and dramatic pacing, while the vibrant Rapsodie espagnole
equally evokes the spirit of Iberia. Ravel’s genius, in his peerless version of
Pictures at an Exhibition takes Mussorgsky’s vivid sound-pictures far beyond
the original artworks which inspired them.
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Stephen Bell conductor
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BEYOND THE SCORE® - SHOSTAKOVICH
SYMPHONY NO.4 - IS MUSIC DANGEROUS?
Saturday 28 October 2017, 7PM
Shostakovich Symphony No.4
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Gerard McBurney creative director
The place Russia, the year 1936 ...
The Soviet Union’s most famous composer, Dmitri Shostakovich had triumphed
internationally with a wildly successful opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk
District, running simultaneously in different theatres in Moscow and Leningrad,
and creating scandals and excitement in Europe and America. The composer
was determined to follow with a massive symphony, scored for enormous
orchestra and designed to show the full power and scale of modern music.
And then he fell from grace. At the beginning of the year, two unsigned
articles appear in the national newspaper Pravda, condemning his work as
‘coarse, primitive and vulgar’, ‘musical chaos’, an example of the evil and antiSoviet influence of Western ‘formalism’ and bourgeois values. The opera was
taken off, the new symphony abruptly cancelled, and the composer plunged
into public peril.
This was at the very moment when Stalin initiated the bloodthirsty Terror, in
which hundreds of thousands died and millions were arrested and imprisoned.
25 years later, when the symphony was finally allowed to be performed, the
composer told a friend: ‘In many ways, it seems to me the Fourth is better
than the symphonies that came after ...’
Beyond the Score® dramatises this dark and shocking story, setting the
violence and pathos of the music alongside political and personal events in a
multimedia performance using diaries, letters, prose and poetry, documentary
films and posters of the time. We hear a complete performance of the
symphony after the interval.
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Beyond the Score® is a production of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Gerard McBurney, Creative Director, Beyond the Score®
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When we finally heard
the orchestra and Elder
perform the complete piece it seemed
more vivid
than usual,
like a painting which has been
cleaned of
the grime
of centuries.
The Daily Telegraph on
Beyond the Score
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MAHLER’S
FOURTH SYMPHONY
FOUR SACRED PIECES
Wednesday 8 November 2017, 2.15pm
Thursday 9 November 2017, 7.30pm
Sunday 12 November 2017, 7.30pm
Vera Clegg Memorial Concert
Mozart Aria for soprano, piano and orchestra: Ch’io mi scordi di te
Mozart Symphony No.34
Mahler Symphony No.4 Thursday 16 November 2017, 7.30pm
7'
19'
55'
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor/piano • Elizabeth Watts soprano
Acclaimed soprano Elizabeth Watts joins the versatile Ryan Wigglesworth in
Mozart’s aria for soprano, piano and orchestra ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’ (‘Should
I forget you’). The two soloists interact exquisitely in one of the greatest
declarations of love in all music. Mozart’s C major Symphony was also
influenced by opera and exudes both tenderness and impish humour. Elizabeth
returns in the second half of the concert as soloist in Mahler’s magnificent
Fourth Symphony. The first movement recalls Mozart’s classical style, the
second evokes the grim fiddler of German folklore and the third is a sublime
slow movement. Finally comes a setting of poetry depicting a child’s vision of
paradise, with sweets in profusion and bread baked by angels.
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Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg music R. Strauss Don Juan Verdi Four Sacred Pieces 26'
19'
41'
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Hallé Choir
The conflict between spiritual and sensual love has been a recurring theme in
art throughout the ages and is central to Wagner’s Tannhäuser. The concert
begins with two orchestral pieces from the opera that vividly dramatise the
conflict (the Venusberg music being a true orgy of sound!). Richard Strauss’s
take on the life of the fictional libertine, Don Juan, is both graphically drawn
and one of the great orchestral showpieces. Verdi was more a man of the
theatre than the church, though in the last decade of his life he produced his
moving Sacred Pieces for choir and orchestra, closing with the Te Deum, his
splendid and startling hymn of praise.
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NEVER MIND THE
WEATHER
HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Saturday 18 November 2017, 7.30pm
Saturday 2 December 2017, 7.30pm
The concert includes:
Singin’ in the Rain
Too Darn Hot
Purple Rain Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Somewhere Over The Rainbow Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me Ain’t No Sunshine
Evergreen Summertime Misty
Handel Messiah
Stephen Bell conductor
Hazel Fernandes and Lance Ellington vocalists
It may be a British obsession but composers from all over the world have
been inspired by sunshine and storms and everything inbetween. Tonight two
world-class vocalists and one world-class orchestra forecast a performance
that includes a selection of the very best.
90'
John Butt conductor
Mhairi Lawson soprano
Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker tenor
Robert Davies baritone
Hallé Choir
One of the great Hallé traditions is its annual performance of Handel’s iconic
Messiah: the perfect way to start the lead up to Christmas. The work was first
performed in 1742 and has since remained the best-loved choral work of them
all. Distinguished harpsichordist, organist and conductor John Butt directs this
year’s performance. The Hallé Choir will be in full-throated form in uplifting
choruses such as ‘Unto us a Child is Born’ and ‘Hallelujah’, while a top line-up
of soloists grace the work’s many superb arias. In fact, the performance will
inspire throughout, from its opening ‘Comfort ye’ to its final ‘Amen’.
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RACHMANINOV’S
SECOND SYMPHONY
CHRISTMAS
FAMILY CONCERT
Wednesday 6 December 2017, 2.15pm
Thursday 7 December 2017, 7.30pm
Sunday 10 December 2017, 7.30pm
Sunday 10 December 2017, 3PM
Respighi The Fountains of Rome
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Rachmaninov Symphony No.2
15'
11'
60'
Carlo Rizzi conductor
Carlo Rizzi is one of the finest conductors in the world: dynamic, energetic
and insightful. He brings a programme full of colour and orchestral virtuosity.
In the first half he conducts two works from his native Italy. Respighi’s The
Fountains of Rome vividly illustrates four of the capital’s iconic water features
at different times of the day, when their beauty blends perfectly with the
surroundings. No less charmingly graphic is Rossini’s William Tell Overture. It
depicts dawn, a violent storm, an idyllic pastoral scene and, most famously, the
cavalry galloping into view! The emotional intensity is raised after the interval
by Rachmaninov’s abundantly lyrical and superbly-crafted Second Symphony.
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Make sure you book early for this amazing afternoon of festive family fun with
the Hallé. Our annual family concert is packed with sing-alongs, jingle-alongs,
surprises, laughter and jaw-dropping wonder, which makes it the perfect way
for the whole family to start the Christmas countdown. This seasonal selection
box of a concert is so popular, even Father Christmas takes time out to attend!
There will be plenty to entertain you in the foyers before the concert and don’t
forget your sleigh bells – homemade or real – so you can join in during the
show. Why not get in the Christmas spirit and come dressed up? Christmas
jumpers and Santa hats are welcome here!
Alasdair Malloy presenter
Tickets: Adults £25, Children (aged 17 and under) £16,
Family Tickets (4 people minimum 1 child) £64
THE FOUR SEASONS
Friday 15 December 2017, 7.30pm
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Grieg Holberg Suite
Svendsen Romance for violin and orchestra
Pachelbel Canon
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Henning Kraggerud violin/director
Henning Kraggerud, a favourite with Manchester’s music fans, directs the Hallé
in a winter evening concert filled with wonderful music famous for elegant and
memorable melodies. The enduring popularity of Vivaldi’s masterpiece is no
accident; this quartet of brilliant concertos calls for virtuosity and imagination
in equal measure.
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HALLÉ CAROL
CONCERTS
Saturday 16 December 2017, 3pm
Sunday 17 December 2017, 3pm
Sunday 17 December 2017, 7.30pm
The concerts include:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Unto Us Is Born A Son, O Come All Ye
Faithful, It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
and
Ding Dong Merrily On High, I Saw Three Ships, Joy To The World,
Berlioz’s Shepherd’s Farewell, Anderson’s A Christmas Festival and the
Hallé Children’s Choir performing Merry Christmas To Me
Stephen Bell conductor
Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir • Hallé Children’s Choir
Join us for a seasonal selection of traditional carols for orchestra, choir and
audience. Come and sing some wonderful Christmas favourites, and hear the
Orchestra and three choirs perform even more.
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A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS
Thursday 21 December 2017, 7.30pm
The concert includes:
White Christmas
Sleigh Ride
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Jingle Bells
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
The Man With The Bag
Let It Snow
It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Do You Hear What I Hear?
When A Child Is Born
Roderick Dunk conductor • Gary Williams vocalist
Hallé Youth Training Choir
Winners of the Hallé Corporate Choir Competition
Gary Williams joins Roderick Dunk and the Hallé for a selection of
swingin’, big-band inspired seasonal favourites, with toe-tappin’
arrangements guaranteed to put the cool into Christmas.
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THE SNOWMAN
Friday 22 December 2017, 1.30pm
Saturday 23 December 2017, 11am, 1.30pm and 4pm
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
The Snowman
Bring all the family along to the Hallé’s screening of Raymond Briggs’ classic
animated film, The Snowman. The film is accompanied by the Hallé performing
Howard Blake’s magical score live including a chorister singing ‘Walking in
the Air’. A Christmas treat not to be missed. The concert begins with Ian
Stephens’ orchestral take on Michael Rosen’s children’s masterpiece We’re
Going on a Bear Hunt. A beautiful concert – ‘we’re not scared’!
Jonathon Heyward conductor • Tom Redmond presenter
Tickets: Adults £25, Children (aged 17 and under) £16,
Family Tickets (4 people minimum 1 child) £64
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AN EVENING WITH 007
THE BEST OF THE
WEST END
Friday 29 December 2017, 7.30pm
Saturday 30 December 2017, 7.30pm
Including the themes and music from:
You Only Live Twice, GoldenEye, Live and Let Die, From Russia With Love,
Quantum of Solace, The World Is Not Enough, Goldfinger, A View To A
Kill, Thunderball, Skyfall, For Your Eyes Only, The Spy Who Loved Me,
Moonraker, The Living Daylights, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Spectre,
Licence To Kill, Diamonds Are Forever and Casino Royale
Including music and songs from:
Chicago, The Phantom Of The Opera, Cats, Gypsy, Evita, Les Misérables,
Love Never Dies, Chess, Guys and Dolls and Carousel.
Stephen Bell conductor • Matthew Ford and Alison Jiear vocalists
Join us on the red carpet as we welcome West End stars Anita Louise Combe
and Scott Davies for the ultimate opening night! Theatreland’s multi-awardwinning showstoppers come together, for one performance only, in this special
party-time celebration.
Smooth as a vodka martini, elegant as a tuxedo and cool as a cucumber
sandwich, Stephen Bell celebrates the ultimate British hero – James Bond.
Immerse yourself in the spine-tingling sounds that give musical voice to the
films, in punchy title sequences and haunting songs.
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Stephen Bell conductor
Anita Louise Combe and Scott Davies vocalists
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NATIONAL YOUTH
GREAT
ORCHESTRA OFBRITAIN
A VIENNESE
CELEBRATION
FRIDAY 5 January 2018, 7.30PM
NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN
Saturday 6 January 2018, 3PM
Liadov The Enchanted Lake
Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Bartók Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Bluebeard Robert Hayward bass-baritone
Judith Claudia Mahnke mezzo-soprano
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain launches its 70th year
celebrations with an enchanting and mystical programme that showcases
perfectly the orchestra’s infectious energy and passionate creativity. Sir Mark Elder, once a member of the Orchestra, now takes the helm to guide us
on an adventure that explores the mysteries of the deep in Liadov’s Enchanted
Lake; the weird and wonderful magical world of Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice
and ending in Bartók’s suspenseful orchestral showpiece Duke Bluebeard’s Castle,
a one-act opera in which an impulsive young bride turns her back on her family,
only to uncover increasingly dark truths about her new husband.
Tickets: £27, £23 and £18 (under 25s £7) including fees
Group rates and other concessions available from the box office
The concert includes:
J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus: Overture and Adele’s Laughing Song
J. Strauss II On The Beautiful Blue Danube
Lehár The Merry Widow: Vilja-Lied
Kalman Countess Maritza: Overture
J. Strauss II Tritsch Tratsch Polka
Lehár Giuditta: Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss
Josef Straus Frauenhertz: Polka-Mazurka
J. Strauss II New Pizzicato Polka
J. Strauss II Frülingsstimmen
J. Strauss II Cuckoo Polka
J. Strauss I Radetzky March
Stephen Bell conductor • Jennifer France soprano
The Hallé’s traditional New Year concert includes all your Strauss family
favourites. Romantic waltzes, thrilling polkas and stirring marches are
combined with the enchanting Jennifer France singing wonderful arias and
songs of the period.
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The Hallé
were the
stars,
responsive to every nuance of
Elder’s direction
The Times
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SHOSTAKOVICH
BEETHOVEN’S ‘EROICA’
Thursday 18 January 2018, 7.30pm
Wednesday 24 January 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 25 January 2018, 7.30pm
Shostakovich Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1 Shostakovich Symphony No.5 12'
29'
47'
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Alisa Weilerstein cello • James Platt bass
THE Abraham Moss Memorial Concert
Sunday 28 January 2018, 7.30pm
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Elgar Cello Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’
Much of Shostakovich’s extraordinary output was profoundly marked by
politics and the judgements of censors. The composer was on relatively safe
ground when he wrote his Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin to celebrate
the 100th anniversary of the Russian poet’s death. Nevertheless, the first song,
‘Rebirth’, makes Pushkin’s battles with the critics very much the composer’s
own. There are strong links between the songs and Shostakovich’s monumental
Fifth Symphony, one of the greatest and most powerful of twentieth-century
orchestral works. The great American cellist Alisa Weilerstein performed
Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto in 2015 and now returns to perform
its ground-breaking predecessor, one of the highlights of the entire cello
repertoire.
Cristian Mǎcelaru conductor • Andrei Ionitǎ cello
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9'
30'
53'
The overture Vaughan Williams composed for a production of The Wasps
by Aristophanes is both suitably waspish and richly lyrical. Andrei Ionitǎ
then joins Cristian Mǎcelaru and the Hallé for Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one
of the greatest works ever written for the instrument. The piece is full of
gossamer-light orchestral writing, delicate cello virtuosity and unforgettable
melodies. Throughout musical history only a few works have truly changed its
course, among them Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony. A token of the composer’s
heroism as he confronted his increasing deafness, it is a remarkable experience
that ends in triumph.
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HALLÉ AND HALLÉ
YOUTH ORCHESTRA
HALLÉ YOUTH
ENSEMBLES
Sunday 28 January 2018, 3PM
You can also hear the Hallé’s Youth Ensembles at
The Bridgewater Hall on the following dates:
Wagner Götterdämmerung: Funeral March (Act III)
and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
Berlioz Excerpts from The Trojans 18'
25'
Saturday 16 December 2017, 7.30pm
Hallé Youth Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Jonathon Heyward conductor
This coming together of younger and more experienced musicians would
have delighted our founder Sir Charles Hallé who conducted the orchestra’s
very first concert 160 years ago, almost to this day. The event, beginning
with a short open rehearsal, features exhilarating orchestral music from two
works dear to the great man’s heart. Sir Mark Elder, just the ninth permanent
conductor in the orchestra’s long history, begins with two thrilling orchestral
highlights from Götterdämmerung, the final part of Wagner’s epic Ring
cycle. Like his great predecessor, Sir Mark is a committed supporter of young
talent. The Hallé’s Assistant Conductor and Music Director of the Hallé Youth
Orchestra, Jonathon Heyward, takes up the baton with music from another
truly epic operatic work, The Trojans by Berlioz. Sir Charles would have been
so proud!
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Sunday 25 March 2018, 3pm
HALLÉ YOUTH ENSEMBLES
Hallé Youth Orchestra
Hallé Youth Choir
Hallé Youth Training Choir
Hallé Children’s Choir
Tickets for Hallé Youth Ensemble events:
Adults £12, Concessions £9.50,
Students and under 5s £5 (including booking fee)
ESPAÑA
STRAVINSKY’S
PETRUSHKA
Saturday 3 February 2018, 7.30pm
Thursday 8 February 2018, 7.30pm
Bizet Carmen Suite No.1 and Habañera
Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez
Piazzolla Libertango (for guitar and strings)
Chabrier España: rhapsody for orchestra
Falla The Three Cornered Hat: Suite Nos.1 and 2
Ravel Boléro
Oliver Knussen The Way to Castle Yonder Stravinsky Petrushka Mussorgsky orch. Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death
Mahler Totenfeier Gergely Madaras conductor • Craig Ogden guitar
Mussorgsky is a huge figure in Russian musical history. Tonight features one
of his finest works, Songs and Dances of Death, sensitively orchestrated by
his admirer Shostakovich and sung by the superb Brindley Sherratt (there
are few more evocative sounds than a bass voice singing Russian). The theme
of mortality continues with a rare performance of Mahler’s breathtaking
Totenfeier, a work that became the opening movement of its composer’s
Second Symphony, ‘The Resurrection’. Stravinsky’s game-changing ballet score
Petrushka is a wonderfully graphic affair that tells of the life, death and ghostly
reappearance of its eponymous puppet hero; while Oliver Knussen’s The Way to
Castle Yonder, music drawn from his opera Higglety, Pigglety, Pop!, starts the
evening with equal poignancy, imagination and humour.
Welcome to one of the most evocative concerts of the year. Forget the
damp cold winter outside and join the Hallé and Craig Ogden, who performs
Rodrigo’s matchless guitar concerto, for an evening of Spanish-inspired
warmth and passion.
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8'
34'
19' 22'
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Brindley Sherratt bass
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OPERA LOVERS’ NIGHT
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 7.30pm
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Catalani La Wally: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana
Puccini Tosca: Recondita armonia
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March
Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
Verdi Aida: Grand March
Donizetti L’elisir d’amore: Una furtiva lagrima
Bernstein West Side Story: Tonight
Massenet Tha s: Méditation
Dvořák Rusalka: Song to the Moon
Puccini Turandot: Nessun Dorma
Puccini La bohème: Finale to Act 1
Stephen Bell conductor • Sarah Fox soprano • Noah Stewart tenor
Tonight’s opera extravaganza features a wonderful collection of
world-famous arias, duets and grand orchestral interludes. This is the perfect
way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, and the perfect way to enjoy some of the
world’s best-loved opera with two of our favourite stars.
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BRAHMS’S FIRST
PIANO CONCERTO
Wednesday 21 February 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 22 February 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 25 February 2018, 7.30pm
Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Beethoven Symphony No.4 Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 12'
32'
44'
Karina Canellakis conductor • Sunwook Kim piano
Praised internationally for her technical and musical gifts, in 2016 Karina
Canellakis won the prestigious Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. She is
joined by Hallé favourite Sunwook Kim for Brahms’s monumental First Piano
Concerto, an absolute tour de force of the repertoire and a piece he has
recorded with the orchestra. Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony is now a Hallé
party piece that thrills audiences wherever they play it. The programme sets
sail with Mendelssohn’s evocative Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. Inspired
by both the poetry of Goethe and the music of Beethoven, it’s one of the
greatest of all musical seascapes.
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To a
packed
Bridgewater Hall,
every participant
played
sang
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their hearts out.
The Observer
GREAT SCI-FI MOVIES
SHOSTAKOVICH’S
EIGHTH SYMPHONY
Saturday 10 March 2018, 7.30pm
Thursday 15 March 2018, 7.30pm
20th Century Fox Fanfare
Star Wars: Main Title
Thunderbirds
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Back To The Future
E.T.: Adventures on Earth
2001: A Space Odyssey Also sprach Zarathustra
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Stargate
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing Scherzo
Avatar
Independence Day: Suite
Bach Piano Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
Mendelssohn Psalm 114
Shostakovich Symphony No.8
23'
13'
61'
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Charles Owen piano • Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir
Set your phasers to stun and let your imagination run riot with this inter-stellar
collection of sci-fi classics. Beam yourself up to The Bridgewater Hall and enjoy
a close encounter with the Hallé.
‘A class above the rest’ was how International Piano recently described Charles
Owen. Tonight he brings his unique spontaneity and skills of interpretation
to bear on Bach’s majestic D minor concerto. Both Mendelssohn and
Shostakovich were huge admirers of Bach, and much of Mendelssohn’s music,
including his great psalm settings, reflects the Baroque master’s influence.
Shostakovich’s massive Eighth Symphony was composed during the Second
World War and, as his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk had done, landed him
in political trouble. In typically cryptic fashion, Shostakovich himself summed
up its message in just three words, ‘life is beautiful’, though it is infinitely more
complex and dramatic than those words suggest. It ends with just a faint
breath of optimism – not enough for the Soviet authorities who wanted a
triumphant war symphony instead.
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Stephen Bell conductor • Tom Redmond presenter
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SAINT-SAËNS’
‘ORGAN’ SYMPHONY
CELEBRATING
QUINCY JONES
Wednesday 21 March 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 22 March 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 25 March 2018, 7.30pm
Saturday 7 April 2018, 7.30pm
Weber Overture: Oberon Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, ‘Organ’
10'
The concert includes:
Soul Bossa Nova, On Days Like These, Let The Good Times Roll,
Billie Jean, Thriller, Fly Me To the Moon, Come Fly With Me and more
35'
37'
Jonathon Heyward conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano • Jonathan Scott organ
The Hallé’s Assistant Conductor, Jonathon Heyward, directs Weber’s
enchanting and exhilarating Oberon Overture. Over the last few seasons Hallé
audiences have adored the playing of Benjamin Grosvenor, one of the finest
young pianists in the world. He performs Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto,
a work that tests the mettle of any soloist. Though initially dark-hued, the
piece ends in exuberant fashion. Jonathan Scott then pulls out all the stops
in Saint-Saëns’ impressive, fascinatingly-textured ‘Organ Symphony’. Of
composing the piece, Saint-Saëns wrote: ‘I gave everything to it that I was
able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.’
Guy Barker conductor
Tony Momrelle and Vanessa Haynes vocalists
We celebrate the phenomenal success of the legendary composer, arranger,
record producer, instrumentalist, film and television producer and actor,
Quincy Jones. From his early beginnings as a talented trumpet player, with the
Lionel Hampton Orchestra to becoming the most Grammy nominated artist
ever, he has worked with a vast array of great artists across many genres
including Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Frank
Sinatra and Michael Jackson.
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The Hallé
must be in the running for
Britain’s
most
refined
orchestra
The Times
RACHMANINOV’S
THIRD PIANO CONCERTO
BRAHMS’ FIRST
SYMPHONY
Thursday 12 April 2018, 7.30pm
Wednesday 18 April 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 19 April 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 22 April 2018, 7.30pm
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales John Adams Harmonium 40'
16'
33' Nicholas Collon conductor
Boris Giltburg piano • Hallé Choir
Wagner Overture: The Mastersingers Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No.1
11'
29'
47'
Nicholas Collon conductor • Augustin Hadelich violin
The great American composer John Adams has long been associated with the
Hallé. For what is effectively a choral symphony, Harmonium, he set poetry
by John Donne and Emily Dickinson, texts that suited his vision of ‘human
voices riding upon waves of rippling sound’. One of the first of Adams’ mature
masterpieces, it is a remarkable experience. So too is Rachmaninov’s Third
Piano Concerto, a triumph of the Romantic piano repertoire. The soloist is
Boris Giltburg, described by Gramophone as ‘a truly memorable Rachmaninov
interpreter’. After the concerto, Nicholas Collon directs Ravel’s delightful
suite of waltzes, Valses nobles et sentimentales, all of them orchestrated in the
French composer’s inimitable style.
Grammy award-winning Augustin Hadelich plays Mendelssohn’s Violin
Concerto, the composer’s most popular creation and a wondrous fusion of
romantic lyricism and classical restraint. It is an inspired, innovative work
with a lullaby-like slow movement and a brilliant finale. Brahms struggled
as he wrote his First Symphony, a process that took some nineteen years,
though it was well worth the wait. This uplifting masterpiece established him
as the true heir and successor of his great hero Beethoven. Conducting these
concerts is the inspiring Nicholas Collon. He begins with The Mastersingers
Overture, a superb medley of themes from Wagner’s most warm-hearted and
humorous opera.
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THRILLS, CHILLS
AND SPILLS!
SIBELIUS’S
SEVENTH SYMPHONY
Saturday 28 April 2018, 7.30pm
Thursday 10 May 2018, 7.30pm
Including music from:
Dark Knight/Batman Begins, Taxi Driver, Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade, The Sixth Sense, Pyscho, Jaws, North by Northwest, The Witches
of Eastwick,The Hateful Eight, The Incredibles, On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service, Eyes Wide Shut
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Ryan Wigglesworth Clocks from a Winter’s Tale
Sibelius Symphony No.7
Stephen Bell conductor • Petroc Trelawny presenter
Tense thrillers and great adventure stories have produced some of the world’s
most exciting and atmospheric soundtracks. Tonight we feature some of the
most iconic. You’ll never go into the water again …
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21'
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Henning Kraggerud violin
The remarkable Henning Kraggerud returns to play, what is for many, the
greatest Violin Concerto of them all. Its extensive first movement is largely
lyrical, the second sublime and the third simply bursts with buoyancy and
energy. Clocks from a Winter’s Tale emerged from Ryan Wigglesworth’s
Shakespeare-based opera The Winter’s Tale, given its premiere by English
National Opera in 2017. Its three movements explore the development of
simple rhythmic figures or pulses – hence ‘clocks’ – as they warp, bend
and collide. Equally fascinating is Sibelius’s final symphony, his Seventh. An
enigmatic work, it is a single span of continuous musical development in which
seven sections are linked by almost imperceptible changes of tempo.
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43'
20'
MENDELSSOHN’S
‘SCOTTISH’ SYMPHONY
Thursday 17 May 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 20 May 2018, 7.30pm
Wednesday 23 May 2018, 2.15pm
Schubert Symphony No.8, ‘Unfinished’
Mozart Piano Concerto No.18, K456 Mendelssohn Symphony No.3, ‘Scottish’
23'
www.halle.co.uk
29'
37'
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Hong Xu piano
Sir Mark conducts Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony and whilst it might be
unfinished, its two movements form one of the most beautiful and satisfying
musical experiences of them all. Hong Xu is not just a pianist of dazzling
technique but a musician of great subtlety and insight. He performs Mozart’s
B flat major Piano Concerto, written for the blind pianist and composer
Maria Theresia von Paradis. Its two lively outer movements frame exquisite
variations on a theme. Mendelssohn’s symphonic homage to Scotland evokes
the atmosphere of Edinburgh’s Holyrood Palace, misty glens, magnificent
mountains and the country’s distinctive folk music.
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WAGNER
SIEGFRIED
Mark Elder’s the Hallé
semi-staged performances with
redletter events
have become
for Wagnerians
Opera Magazine
WAGNER’S SIEGFRIED
Sunday 3 June 2018, 6PM
Saturday 2 June 2018, 5PM
Wagner Siegfried: Acts I and II
164'
Wagner Siegfried: Act III
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Sir Mark Elder conductor
The cast:
The cast:
Siegfried Simon O’Neill tenor
Mime Gerhard Siegel tenor
The Wanderer Iain Paterson bass-baritone
Alberich tbc bass-baritone
Fafner Clive Bailey bass
Woodbird Malin Christensson soprano
Siegfried Simon O’Neill tenor
The Wanderer Iain Paterson bass-baritone
Erda Anna Larsson contralto
Brünnhilde Rachel Nicholls soprano
96’
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Sir Mark, the Hallé and an outstanding cast of singers end the season
in magnificent style with a two-night concert performance of Wagner’s
mammoth opera Siegfried, the third part of the Ring cycle. Based on ancient
Nordic sagas, the Ring is a timeless moral drama concerned with love, power
and corruption, a vast fable that is as relevant today as ever. In Siegfried, the
opera’s eponymous hero forges a mighty sword, slays the dragon Fafner, goes
on to possess the cursed Ring and releases the sleeping Brünnhilde from her
fiery mountain-top exile. Wagner’s use of musical leitmotifs as an integral part
of the story is simply enthralling, while the glorious orchestral preludes that
open Acts I and III are hugely impressive in their own right.
Musically and dramatically this is a two-part event not to be missed.
the Hallé prove
you don’t need a theatre for
vivid Wagner
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performing. Choir seats or seats without an adequate view are not
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note that we do not recommend the Choir seats for concerts
involving singers. Contact the Box Office for full details.
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Beyond The Score
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The Snowman and Christmas Family Concert Adults £25, Children (aged 17 and under) £16, Family Tickets (4 people minimum 1 child) £64
Youth Ensembles concerts
Adults £12, Concessions £9.50, Students and under 5s £5
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Disabled person’s subscription
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£134.75
£142.45
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Opus One Concerts (9 CONCERTS)
Individuals and
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Groups of 10 to 49 people
Groups of 50+ people
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£252
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£263.97
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£154.35
£110.25
£141.57
£124.92
£116.55
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£77.67
£72.45
£51.75
Pops concerts (8 CONCERTS)
Disabled person’s subscription
£262.40
£164
£230.40
£144
£179.20
£112
£128
£80
£76.80
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BOOKING FEES
The Bridgewater Hall applies a booking fee of £2 per ticket to telephone and online transactions.
Tickets bought in person at the Box Office using a debit card or credit card are subject to a 2% booking fee.
No BOOKING fee applies to tickets bought in person and paid for by cash or cheque or purchased as part of a fixed or personal subscription.
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Concessions and discounts
CLAIMANTS AND OVER 60s
Personal FLEXIBLE Subscriptions †
Experiencing the Hallé’s
concerts has never been
easier, or better value.
Claimants can purchase tickets at 10% off
anywhere in the auditorium, on production of
appropriate identification. From two Mondays
prior to the performance, over 60s may purchase
any remaining tickets and get a 20% discount.
Receive discounts on the full ticket price when
you book for five or more concerts from The
Bridgewater Hall’s 2017–2018 classical seasons.
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A limited number of tickets will be available for
each concert on the day, priced at £12 (including
booking fees). They can be booked in person, by
phone or online.
You can pay for your tickets by direct debit in five
monthly instalments from 1 September 2017 when
you spend £250 or more. Completed direct debit
mandates must be received by Friday 21 July 2017.
Group discounts
(Please note the Box Office cannot accept direct
debits on online bookings.)
Anyone aged 30 or under can save 15% off many
of the Hallé’s prices.
Visit www.halle.co.uk/moneysavers for full details.
£3 STUDENT TICKETS *
For just £3 (£5 including booking fee, see page
37) students in full-time education can hear the
Hallé perform extraordinary music in the fantastic
surroundings of The Bridgewater Hall.
These tickets are available in the stalls for the
Hallé’s Thursday Series, Collection and Opus
One concerts. Additional events may be added
throughout the year so check for full details at
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Discounts of up to 25% are available, depending
on the size of your group. Call The Bridgewater
Hall’s Group Bookings Department directly on
0161 907 9010.
Groups of 10–29 save 10%
Groups of 30–49 save 15%
Groups of 50+ save 25%
Have you ever thought of joining a
Hallé group?
Our Opus One concerts attract groups from all
over the North West, and some from even further
afield. If you would like to find out more about
joining a Hallé group, either as a subscriber or
perhaps to take a spare seat on a coach, please
contact the Group Bookings Department on 0161
907 9010 or email [email protected]
Choose 5 or more concerts and save 15%
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† All Hallé concerts are included except
The Snowman, Family and Youth Ensemble
performances.
REFUNDS/Ticket exchange
Tickets cannot be refunded, but may be exchanged
subject to The Bridgewater Hall’s terms and
conditions. If you are unable to attend a concert,
The Bridgewater Hall will credit your account
with the cost of your tickets, provided they are
physically returned to the Box Office at least three
working days before the concert date. This credit
amount (minus a return fee of £2.20 per ticket)
can then be used to purchase tickets for another
concert of your choice.
DISABLED PATRONS
Disabled patrons save 50%, and, if a carer
is required, the carer comes free. Disabled
concessions are not available online. The
Bridgewater Hall is fully accessible and welcomes
disabled patrons. By letting us know your access
requirements, we will, where possible, be able to
seat you appropriately. Information on disabled
parking can be found on page 40.
Please visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk for full
information or contact the Box Office on 0161 907
9000.
PROGRAMME CHANGES, PRICES and
CHILDREN
All artists and programmes are correct at the time
of going to press, but may change in the event of
unforeseen circumstances.
Keep up to date at www.halle.co.uk
All prices and tickets, including discounts and
concessions, are subject to availability. Prices may
change and you may only use one discount per ticket.
For licensing reasons, everyone, including babes
in arms where appropriate, is required to have a
ticket. Details are available from the Box Office
and at www.halle.co.uk.
Pre-concert events
There are pre-concert events prior to some of
our concerts. These are normally held in the
auditorium and are free to concert ticket holders.
Full details will be announced in the autumn and
can be found at www.halle.co.uk
THE HALLÉ AND THE BBC
Other than for specific family concerts, we
recommend that younger members of our
audiences be at least of primary school age.
Some of the Hallé’s concerts in the 2017–18
season will feature on Radio 3. This is part of the
ongoing partnership between the Hallé and the
UK’s leading cultural broadcaster. For times and
dates of the broadcasts visit www.bbc.co.uk/
radio3
Information is available
in large print.
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The Bridgewater Hall
PARKING
The Bridgewater Hall is open from 11am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday, from
12 noon for weekend matinee concerts and from 5pm on all concert nights.
Closing times vary and depend on the duration of concerts.
A limited number of pre-pay discounted spaces are available to patrons
attending evening concerts at Q-Park First Street car park at a rate of £6.50. Spaces must be booked in advance via the Box Office or online at the time of
purchasing your concert tickets no less than 24hrs before the event.
EATING AND DRINKING AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL
The Charles Hallé Restaurant is open from 5.30pm on concert nights. Enjoy the
best value for money, quality cuisine in Manchester, with a fixed-price menu du
jour: two courses are £21.95 and three courses £27.50, inclusive of coffee and
petits fours. Stalls Café Bar offers a more casual pre-concert dining experience
with main courses from £10.95.
Reservations are required for pre-concert dining - book through the Box
Office on 0161 907 9000 or online at www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk. Please
note a £5 per person deposit is required; this is non-refundable in the event of
cancellation with less than three days’ notice. Stalls Café Bar is also open for drinks and light bites from 5.30pm on concert
nights and from 11am to 2.30pm when there is matinee concert.
Pre-concert and interval drinks
Bars are located on all four levels, serving drinks before the concert and during
the interval. Coffee is served in the Stalls and Circle bars. We recommend that
you pre-order your interval drinks (this service is available from all bars).
The BRIDGEWATER HALL shop
Open Monday to Friday from 11am to 3pm and from 6pm on concert nights.
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Parking is limited to a maximum stay of 8 hours at the discounted rate.
Patrons attending matinee concerts at The Bridgewater Hall can obtain a
voucher from the Hall’s Box Office or Information Desk which will discount the
daytime parking rate at Q-Park First Street by 15%
For full details, visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk or contact the Box Office on
0161 907 9000.
DISABLED PARKING
There are a limited number of complimentary disabled parking spaces for blue
badge holders at NCP Manchester Central, allocated on a first-come-firstserved basis. Spaces are free of charge but a ticket must be booked through
the Box Office with your concert tickets.
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SUBSCRIPTION DIARY
THURSDAY SERIES
Thursday 5 October 2017, 7.30pm
Thursday 15 March 2018, 7.30pm
Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Stravinsky The Firebird (1910)
Bach Piano Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
Mendelssohn Psalm 114
Shostakovich Symphony No.8
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Charles Owen piano
Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir
Thursday 16 November 2017, 7.30pm
Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg music
R. Strauss Don Juan
Verdi Four Sacred Pieces
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Hallé Choir
Thursday 18 January 2018, 7.30pm
Shostakovich Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1
Shostakovich Symphony No.5
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Alisa Weilerstein cello • James Platt bass
Thursday 12 April 2018, 7.30pm
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales John Adams Harmonium Nicholas Collon conductor • Boris Giltburg piano
Hallé Choir
Thursday 10 May 2018, 7.30pm
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Ryan Wigglesworth Clocks from a Winter’s Tale
Sibelius Symphony No.7
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Henning Kraggerud violin
Thursday 8 February 2018, 7.30pm
Oliver Knussen The Way to Castle Yonder
Stravinsky Petrushka
Mussorgsky orch. Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death
Mahler Totenfeier
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Brindley Sherratt bass
COLLECTION
POPS CONCERTS
Saturday 28 October 2017, 7PM
Beyond The Score®
Shostakovich Symphony No.4 - Is Music Dangerous?
Saturday 23 September 2017, 7.30pM
Classical Extravaganza
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Gerard McBurney creative director
Saturday 7 October 2017, 7.30pm
The Best of British Cinema
Saturday 2 December 2017, 7.30pm
Saturday 18 November 2017, 7.30pm
Never Mind the Weather
Handel Messiah
John Butt conductor • soloists • Hallé Choir
Saturday 2 June 2018, 5PM
Wagner Siegfried: Acts I and II
Sir Mark Elder conductor • soloists
Sunday 3 June 2018, 6PM
Wagner Siegfried: Act III
Sir Mark Elder conductor • soloists
Saturday 3 February 2018, 7.30pm
España
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 7.30pm
Opera Lovers’ Night
Saturday 10 March 2018, 7.30pm
Great Sci-Fi Movies
Saturday 7 April 2018, 7.30pm
Celebrating Quincy Jones
Saturday 28 April 2018, 7.30pm
Thrills, Chills and Spills!
OPUS ONE CONCERTS
Thursday 14 September 2017, 7.30pm
Sunday 17 September 2017, 7.30pm
Wednesday 20 September 2017, 2.15pm
Wednesday 6 December 2017, 2.15pm
Thursday 7 December 2017, 7.30pm
Sunday 10 December 2017, 7.30pm
Wednesday 21 March 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 22 March 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 25 March 2018, 7.30pm
Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’
Respighi The Fountains of Rome
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Rachmaninov Symphony No.2
Weber Overture: Oberon
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, ‘Organ’
Pablo González conductor • Barry Douglas piano
Carlo Rizzi conductor
Thursday 12 October 2017, 7.30pm
Wednesday 18 October 2017, 2,15pm
Sunday 22 October 2017, 7.30pm
Wednesday 24 January 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 25 January 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 28 January 2018, 7.30pm
Jonathon Heyward conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Jonathan Scott organ
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra
Ravel Boléro
Mussorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps
Elgar Cello Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Sergio Castelló López clarinet
Wednesday 8 November 2017, 2.15pm
Thursday 9 November 2017, 7.30pm
Sunday 12 November 2017, 7.30pm
Mozart Aria: Ch’io mi scordi di te
Mozart Symphony No.34
Mahler Symphony No.4
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor/piano
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Cristian Mǎcelaru conductor • Andrei Ionitǎ cello
Wednesday 21 February 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 22 February 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 25 February 2018, 7.30pm
Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and
Prosperous Voyage
Beethoven Symphony No.4
Brahms Piano Concerto No.1
Karina Canellakis conductor
Sunwook Kim piano
Wednesday 18 April 2018, 2.15pm
Thursday 19 April 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 22 April 2018, 7.30pm
Wagner Overture: The Mastersingers
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Brahms Symphony No. 1
Nicholas Collon conductor
Augustin Hadelich violin
Thursday 17 May 2018, 7.30pm
Sunday 20 May 2018, 7.30pm
Wednesday 23 May 2018, 2.15pm
Schubert Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Mozart Piano Concerto No.18, K456
Mendelssohn Symphony No.3, ‘Scottish’
Sir Mark Elder conductor • Hong Xu piano
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