Bridgewater HallManchester, North-West, M2 3WS, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Rawsthorne, Alan (1905-1971) | Street Corner Overture | |
| Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934) | Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61 | |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958) | Symphony no. 9 in E minor |
Performers
| BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Sir Andrew Davis | Conductor |
| James Ehnes | Violin |
Tickets: £35 - £10
Pomp and Circumstance? Larks ascending? Here in Manchester, we've always done British music a bit differently. The Haslingden-born Alan Rawsthorne takes a Lowry-like street scene and turns it into five minutes of bustling fun, while Edward Elgar pours out his very soul in the passionately romantic Violin Concerto. It's all terribly un-English; but that won't bother our soloist, the magnificent Canadian violinist James Ehnes. Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has spent a lifetime with this music, so there's no greater interpreter of the visionary final symphony that Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote specially for our Manchester colleagues, the Hallé. An 86-year old composer stares boldly into the future: what he shows us might surprise you.
Pomp and Circumstance? Larks ascending? Here in Manchester, we've always done British music a bit differently. The Haslingden-born Alan Rawsthorne takes a Lowry-like street scene and turns it into five minutes of bustling fun, while Edward Elgar pours out his very soul in the passionately romantic Violin Concerto. It's all terribly un-English; but that won't bother our soloist, the magnificent Canadian violinist James Ehnes. Conductor Sir Andrew Davis has spent a lifetime with this music, so there's no greater interpreter of the visionary final symphony that Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote specially for our Manchester colleagues, the Hallé. An 86-year old composer stares boldly into the future: what he shows us might surprise you.
