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ManchesterJoe Webb at the St James's Club

© Joe Webb
Joe Webb, Piano

ManchesterOffenbach's BarkoufConcert performance

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Offenbach: Barkouf ou un chien au pouvoir
Paul Daniel; Opera Rara; The Hallé; English National Opera Chorus; Yann Beuron; Anne-Catherine Gillet

ManchesterWhat The World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Bacharach
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra; Rob Shirakbari; Rumer; Ed Harcourt
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Bihlmaier’s Boulanger and Brahms have moments of beauty and restraint

Julia Grüter, Anja Bihlmaier and Joshua Hopkins with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra © BBC | Chris Payne
Anja Bihlmaier draws committed playing from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a choral programme including Brahms’ German Requiem with the Audi Jugendchorakademie.  
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Storgårds’ superb Sibelius opens the BBC Philharmonic season

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic © Chris Payne
An intriguing evocation of the American forest in Gabriella Smith's amazing new organ concerto, Breathing Forests.
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Tumultuous Mahler 2 season finale from the BBC Philharmonic

John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra © Chris Payne
John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic and CBSO Chorus in Mahler's mighty Resurrection Symphony. 
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Elgar archive donated to The Hallé in Manchester

Elgar conducting an early recording session for the gramophone, c.1915 © Reproduced with permission from The Hallé Archive
The collection offers unrivalled insight into the life and work of one of the UK’s most celebrated composers.

Thomas Adès named Principal Guest Conductor of The Hallé

Thomas Adès © Marco Borggreve
The appointment marks the first formal conducting title of Adèsʼ career, during which he has enjoyed a close relationship with the orchestra as Composer-in-Association.

Street-smart and subversive: Ailish Tynan talks Così fan tutte

Ailish Tynan © Benjamin Ealovega
The Irish soprano talks about singing Mozart’s Così fan tutte with English National Opera, in London and Manchester – and how the wily Despina is the perfectly subversive character for her.