The Hallé

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The Glasshouse International Centre for Music: Sage OneSt Mary's Square Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, North-East, NE8 2JR, United Kingdom

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Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34
Rachmaninov, Sergei (1873-1943)	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor for piano and orchestra, Op.43
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Symphony no. 1 in F minor, Op.10

Performers

The Hallé
Rory Macdonald	Conductor
Andrew Tyson	Piano

When the 19-year old student Dmitri
Shostakovich handed in the score for his
first symphony in 1925, his tutors were
stunned. Shostakovich’s dramatic, impulsive
and strident work seemed to combine
Tchaikovsky’s emotional fervour, Prokofiev’s
playful joie de vivre and Scriabin’s intense
heat. Rory Macdonald and the Hallé
perform Shostakovich’s eye-widening
first symphony alongside Rachmaninov’s
devious dance after Paganini and Britten’s
monumental celebration of the orchestra.
With a pre-concert talk.
Buses from Alnwick and Hexham.
Tickets: £13-£36

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Themes and variations with the Hallé at Sage Gateshead

Jane Shuttleworth, 15th October

Last night’s concert by the Hallé, this season’s first guest orchestra to visit Sage Gateshead, was all about youth: a young conductor, a young soloist, a young composer, and music written for a young audience. There were even a few young faces in the large audience.

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