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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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THURSDAy 14 SEPTEMBER 2017, 7.30PM SUNDAy 17 SEPTEMBER 2017, 7.30PM WEDNESDAy 20 SEPTEMBER 2017, 2.15PM

Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night 8'

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 32'

Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’ 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.

Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees)

SATURDAy 23 SEPTEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

Copland Fanfare for the Common ManBernstein Overture: West Side StoryFauré Pavane Bizet March of the ToreadorsElgar Chanson de MatinWalton Crown Imperial Haydn Trumpet Concerto Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie Grainger Londonderry Air Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee Elgar Nimrod from the ‘Enigma’ VariationsBorodin 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.

Tickets from £14 (including booking fees)

TCHAIKOVSKY’S ‘PATHÉTIQUE’

CLASSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA


THURSDAy 5 OCTOBER 2017, 7.30PM

Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune 10' Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 25'

Stravinsky The Firebird (1910) 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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The concert includes Spitfire Prelude and Fugue WaltonFour Weddings And A Funeral: Carrie’s Bedroom BennettThe Bridge On The River Kwai ArnoldChitty Chitty Bang Bang Sherman & ShermanChariots Of Fire VangelisWallace and Gromit: Theme and Chase NottJames Bond Medley Barry arr. BlackOut Of Africa BarryThose Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines GoodwinLove Actually: Glasgow Love Theme ArmstrongHarry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Hedwig’s Theme John WilliamsSherlock Suite Arnold/Price

Stephen Bell conductor

Hallé Pops conductor Stephen Bell guides us through a festival of British film favourites with scores packed full of drama, excitement and comedy.


THURSDAy 12 OCTOBER 2017, 7.30PMWEDNESDAy 18 OCTOBER 2017, 2.15PM SUNDAy 22 OCTOBER 2017, 7.30PM Ravel Rapsodie espagnole 16'

Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra 8'

Ravel Boléro 16'

Mussorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition 33'

Sir Mark Elder conductor • Sergio Castelló López clarinet

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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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 anti-Soviet 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.


Beyond the Score® is a production of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Gerard McBurney, Creative Director, Beyond the Score®

BEYOND THE SCORE® - SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO.4 - IS MUSIC DANGEROUS?


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WEDNESDAy 8 NOVEMBER 2017, 2.15PMTHURSDAy 9 NOVEMBER 2017, 7.30PMSUNDAy 12 NOVEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

Mozart Aria for soprano, piano and orchestra: Ch’io mi scordi di te 7' Mozart Symphony No.34 19' Mahler Symphony No.4 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.


THURSDAy 16 NOVEMBER 2017, 7.30PM VERA CLEGG MEMORIAL CONCERT

Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg music 26'

R. Strauss Don Juan 19'

Verdi Four Sacred Pieces 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.


MAHLER’S FOURTH SYMPHONY FOUR SACRED PIECES


SATURDAy 18 NOVEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

The concert includes:Singin’ in the RainToo Darn HotPurple Rain Raindrops Keep Falling on My HeadSomewhere Over The Rainbow Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me Ain’t No SunshineEvergreen Summertime Misty

Stephen Bell conductorHazel 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.


SATURDAy 2 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

Handel Messiah 90'

John Butt conductorMhairi Lawson sopranoAnna Stéphany mezzo-sopranoThomas Walker tenorRobert Davies baritoneHallé 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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WEDNESDAy 6 DECEMBER 2017, 2.15PMTHURSDAy 7 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PM SUNDAy 10 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

Respighi The Fountains of Rome 15'

Rossini Overture: William Tell 11'

Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 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.


SUNDAy 10 DECEMBER 2017, 3PM

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

CHRISTMAS FAMILY CONCERT

RACHMANINOV’S SECOND SYMPHONY


THE FOUR SEASONS

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FRIDAy 15 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

Grieg Holberg Suite Svendsen Romance for violin and orchestraPachelbel 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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SATURDAy 16 DECEMBER 2017, 3PM SUNDAy 17 DECEMBER 2017, 3PMSUNDAy 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 ClearandDing 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.


THURSDAy 21 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

The concert includes: White ChristmasSleigh RideSanta Claus Is Coming To Town Jingle BellsRudolph the Red-Nosed ReindeerThe Man With The BagLet It SnowIt’s the Most Wonderful Time Of The YearDo You Hear What I Hear?When A Child Is Born

Roderick Dunk conductor • Gary Williams vocalistHallé 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.


HALLÉ CAROL CONCERTS A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS


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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FRIDAy 29 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

Stephen Bell conductor • Matthew Ford and Alison Jiear vocalists

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.



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 Anita Louise Combe and Scott Davies 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-award-winning showstoppers come together, for one performance only, in this special party-time celebration.


AN EVENING WITH 007


FRIDAy 5 JANUARy 2018, 7.30PM NATIONAL yOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN

Liadov The Enchanted LakeDukas The Sorcerer’s ApprenticeBartók 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 feesGroup rates and other concessions available from the box office

SATURDAy 6 JANUARy 2018, 3PM

The concert includes:J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus: Overture and Adele’s Laughing SongJ. Strauss II On The Beautiful Blue Danube Lehár The Merry Widow: Vilja-LiedKalman 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 PolkaJ. 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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THURSDAy 18 JANUARy 2018, 7.30PM

Shostakovich Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin 12'

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1 29'

Shostakovich Symphony No.5 47'

Sir Mark Elder conductor Alisa Weilerstein cello • James Platt bass

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.


WEDNESDAy 24 JANUARy 2018, 2.15PM THURSDAy 25 JANUARy 2018, 7.30PM THE ABRAHAM MOSS MEMORIAL CONCERT

SUNDAy 28 JANUARy 2018, 7.30PM

Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps 9'

Elgar Cello Concerto 30'

Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’ 53'

Cristian Macelaru conductor • Andrei Ionita cello

The overture Vaughan Williams composed for a production of The Wasps by Aristophanes is both suitably waspish and richly lyrical. Andrei Ionita then joins Cristian Macelaru 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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SUNDAy 28 JANUARy 2018, 3PM

Wagner Götterdämmerung: Funeral March (Act III) and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey 18'

Berlioz Excerpts from The Trojans 25'

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!

HALLÉ AND HALLÉ YOUTH ORCHESTRA

HALLÉ YOUTH ENSEMBLES

you can also hear the Hallé’s youth Ensembles at The Bridgewater Hall on the following dates:

SATURDAy 16 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PMHallé Youth Orchestra

SUNDAy 25 MARCH 2018, 3PMHALLé yOUTH ENSEMBLESHallé Youth OrchestraHallé Youth ChoirHallé Youth Training ChoirHallé Children’s Choir

Tickets for Hallé Youth Ensemble events:Adults £12, Concessions £9.50, Students and under 5s £5 (including booking fee)


SATURDAy 3 FEBRUARy 2018, 7.30PM

Bizet Carmen Suite No.1 and HabañeraRodrigo Concierto de AranjuezPiazzolla Libertango (for guitar and strings) Chabrier España: rhapsody for orchestra Falla The Three Cornered Hat: Suite Nos.1 and 2 Ravel Boléro

Gergely Madaras conductor • Craig Ogden guitar

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.


THURSDAy 8 FEBRUARy 2018, 7.30PM

Oliver Knussen The Way to Castle yonder 8'

Stravinsky Petrushka 34'

Mussorgsky orch. Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death 19'

Mahler Totenfeier 22'

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Brindley Sherratt bass

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.


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WEDNESDAy 14 FEBRUARy 2018, 7.30PM

Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville Catalani La Wally: Ebben? Ne andrò lontanaPuccini Tosca: Recondita armoniaMendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding MarchMascagni Cavalleria rusticana: IntermezzoVerdi Aida: Grand MarchDonizetti L’elisir d’amore: Una furtiva lagrimaBernstein West Side Story: TonightMassenet Tha s: MéditationDvorák Rusalka: Song to the MoonPuccini 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.


WEDNESDAy 21 FEBRUARy 2018, 2.15PMTHURSDAy 22 FEBRUARy 2018, 7.30PM SUNDAy 25 FEBRUARy 2018, 7.30PM

Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage 12'

Beethoven Symphony No.4 32'

Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 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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SATURDAy 10 MARCH 2018, 7.30PM

20th Century Fox Fanfare Star Wars: Main Title Thunderbirds Star Trek: The Motion PictureBack To The FutureE.T.: Adventures on Earth2001: A Space Odyssey Also sprach ZarathustraClose Encounters of the Third KindStar Trek: Into DarknessStargate Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing ScherzoAvatarIndependence Day: Suite

Stephen Bell conductor • Tom Redmond presenter

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.


THURSDAy 15 MARCH 2018, 7.30PM

Bach Piano Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 23'

Mendelssohn Psalm 114 13'

Shostakovich Symphony No.8 61'

Sir Mark Elder conductor Charles Owen piano • Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir

‘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.


SHOSTAKOVICH’S EIGHTH SYMPHONYGREAT SCI-FI MOVIES


WEDNESDAy 21 MARCH 2018, 2.15PMTHURSDAy 22 MARCH 2018, 7.30PMSUNDAy 25 MARCH 2018, 7.30PM

Weber Overture: Oberon 10'

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 35'

Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, ‘Organ’ 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.’


SATURDAy 7 APRIL 2018, 7.30PM

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

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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SAINT-SAËNS’ ‘ORGAN’ SYMPHONY

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RACHMANINOV’S THIRD PIANO CONCERTO

THURSDAy 12 APRIL 2018, 7.30PM

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 40'

Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales 16'

John Adams Harmonium 33'

Nicholas Collon conductorBoris Giltburg piano • Hallé Choir

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.


WEDNESDAy 18 APRIL 2018, 2.15PM THURSDAy 19 APRIL 2018, 7.30PM SUNDAy 22 APRIL 2018, 7.30PM

Wagner Overture: The Mastersingers 11'

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 29'

Brahms Symphony No.1 47'

Nicholas Collon conductor • Augustin Hadelich violin

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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SATURDAy 28 APRIL 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

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 …


THURSDAy 10 MAy 2018, 7.30PM

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D 43'

Ryan Wigglesworth Clocks from a Winter’s Tale 20'

Sibelius Symphony No.7 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.


SIBELIUS’S SEVENTH SYMPHONY

THRILLS, CHILLS AND SPILLS!


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’ 23' Mozart Piano Concerto No.18, K456 29'

Mendelssohn Symphony No.3, ‘Scottish’ 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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SATURDAy 2 JUNE 2018, 5PM

Wagner Siegfried: Acts I and II 164'

Sir Mark Elder conductor

The cast:

Siegfried Simon O’Neill tenor Mime Gerhard Siegel tenor The Wanderer Iain Paterson bass-baritoneAlberich tbc bass-baritoneFafner Clive Bailey bassWoodbird Malin Christensson soprano


SUNDAy 3 JUNE 2018, 6PM

Wagner Siegfried: Act III 96’

Sir Mark Elder conductor

The cast:

Siegfried Simon O’Neill tenor The Wanderer Iain Paterson bass-baritoneErda Anna Larsson contralto Brünnhilde Rachel Nicholls soprano


WAGNER’S SIEGFRIED

Save between 15 and 30% by booking these concerts as part of a fixed or flexible subscription. See pages 36–38.

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

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CHOIR SEATSChoir seats are available for most concerts where the Choir is not performing. Choir seats or seats without an adequate view are not available when surtitles and the Hallé big screen is in place. Please note that we do not recommend the Choir seats for concerts involving singers. Contact the Box Office for full details.

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WHEN TO BOOKPublic booking opens on Monday 8 May 2017.

HOW TO BOOK

www.halle.co.uk • 0161 907 9000

In person or by post at the Box Office, The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WSMastercard, Visa, Maestro and Delta are all welcome.

BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS (at April 2017)Monday to Saturday 10am–6pm Sunday (concert nights only) 12pm–6pm. Closed on non-concert Sundays. Counter service until 8pm on concert nights

HALLé FIXED SUBSCRIPTIONS• Subscriptions save you money• Subscribing protects you against possible price increases later in the season• you can choose the seats that best suit you, and we’ll keep them for you for future

seasons• Guaranteed seats for our sold out concerts• you receive priority information about future seasons• Everything is done before the season starts – there’s nothing more to think about –

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INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES (including booking fees, see below) A B C D E FThursday Series, Collection, Opus One concerts and 6 January £42 £36.50 £32 £26.50 £20.50 £13.50Pops concerts £43 £38 £30 £22 £14Christmas concerts £43 £38 £30 £22 £15Beyond The Score £34 £29 £24 £19 £13.50The 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

FIXED SUBSCRIPTION TICKET PRICES (Prices are per person) A B C D E FThursday Series (7 CONCERTS) £196 £169.05 £147 £120.05 £90.65 £56.35Disabled person’s subscription £140 £120.75 £105 £85.75 £64.75 £40.25

Thursday Series plus Collection (11 CONCERTS) £308 £265.65 £231 £188.65 £142.45 £88.55Disabled person’s subscription £220 £189.75 £165 £134.75 £101.75 £63.25

Opus One Concerts (9 CONCERTS) Individuals and groups of up to 9 people £306 £263.97 £229.50 £187.47 £141.57 £88.02Groups of 10 to 49 people £270 £232.92 £202.50 £165.42 £124.92 £77.67Groups of 50+ people £252 £217.35 £189 £154.35 £116.55 £72.45Disabled person’s subscription £180 £155.25 £135 £110.25 £83.25 £51.75

Pops concerts (8 CONCERTS) £262.40 £230.40 £179.20 £128 £76.80 Disabled person’s subscription £164 £144 £112 £80 £48

BOOKING FEESThe 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

Experiencing the Hallé’s concerts has never been easier, or better value. UNDER 30s *

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 www.halle.co.uk or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

* These offers are subject to availability. you may be asked to show appropriate identification.

CLAIMANTS AND OVER 60S

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.

HALLé DAY TICKETS †

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.

GROUP DISCOUNTS

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]

PERSONAL FLEXIBLE SUBSCRIPTIONS †

Receive discounts on the full ticket price when you book for five or more concerts from The Bridgewater Hall’s 2017–2018 classical seasons.

Choose 5 or more concerts and save 15% Choose 16 or more concerts and save 25%

TOO MUCH TO PAY IN ONE GO?

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.

(Please note the Box Office cannot accept direct debits on online bookings.)

† All Hallé concerts are included except The Snowman, Family and youth Ensemble performances.


THE HALLé AND THE BBC

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

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.

Information is available in large print.

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.

Other than for specific family concerts, we recommend that younger members of our audiences be at least of primary school age.

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

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THE BRIDGEWATER HALL

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.

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.

PARKING

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.

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-first-served basis. Spaces are free of charge but a ticket must be booked through the Box Office with your concert tickets.


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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)

Sir Mark Elder conductor • Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

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 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

THURSDAy 15 MARCH 2018, 7.30PM

Bach Piano Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 Mendelssohn Psalm 114 Shostakovich Symphony No.8

Sir Mark Elder conductor • Charles Owen piano Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir

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

POPS CONCERTSCOLLECTION

SATURDAy 23 SEPTEMBER 2017, 7.30PM Classical Extravaganza

SATURDAy 7 OCTOBER 2017, 7.30PMThe Best of British Cinema

SATURDAy 18 NOVEMBER 2017, 7.30PMNever Mind the Weather

SATURDAy 3 FEBRUARy 2018, 7.30PMEspaña

WEDNESDAy 14 FEBRUARy 2018, 7.30PMOpera Lovers’ Night

SATURDAy 10 MARCH 2018, 7.30PM Great Sci-Fi Movies

SATURDAy 7 APRIL 2018, 7.30PMCelebrating Quincy Jones

SATURDAy 28 APRIL 2018, 7.30PMThrills, Chills and Spills!

SATURDAy 28 OCTOBER 2017, 7PM Beyond The Score® Shostakovich Symphony No.4 - Is Music Dangerous?

Sir Mark Elder conductor • Gerard McBurney creative director


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

OPUS ONE CONCERTSTHURSDAy 14 SEPTEMBER 2017, 7.30PM SUNDAy 17 SEPTEMBER 2017, 7.30PM WEDNESDAy 20 SEPTEMBER 2017, 2.15PM

Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’

Pablo González conductor • Barry Douglas piano

THURSDAy 12 OCTOBER 2017, 7.30PM WEDNESDAy 18 OCTOBER 2017, 2,15PM SUNDAy 22 OCTOBER 2017, 7.30PM

Ravel Rapsodie espagnole Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra Ravel Boléro Mussorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

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

WEDNESDAy 6 DECEMBER 2017, 2.15PM THURSDAy 7 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PM SUNDAy 10 DECEMBER 2017, 7.30PM

Respighi The Fountains of Rome Rossini Overture: William Tell Rachmaninov Symphony No.2

Carlo Rizzi conductor

WEDNESDAy 24 JANUARy 2018, 2.15PM THURSDAy 25 JANUARy 2018, 7.30PM SUNDAy 28 JANUARy 2018, 7.30PM

Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Elgar Cello Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’

Cristian Macelaru conductor • Andrei Ionita 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 21 MARCH 2018, 2.15PM THURSDAy 22 MARCH 2018, 7.30PM SUNDAy 25 MARCH 2018, 7.30PM

Weber Overture: Oberon Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, ‘Organ’

Jonathon Heyward conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano Jonathan Scott organ

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

Diamond Partner Major sponsorsPrincipal Sponsor The Hallé Concerts Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of Arts Council England, Manchester City Council and the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities.

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