Elder's era-defining Elgar marathon closes with The Kingdom

Dame Sarah Connolly and Gemma Summerfield

The Hallé Choir

Von Rohan Shotton, 13 Juni 2023

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“few musicians in the world can ever have had such a strong connection to a composer”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, am 11 Juni 2023

Elgar, The Kingdom - oratorio for soloists chorus and orchestra, Op.51

The Hallé

Sir Mark Elder, Musikalische Leitung

Gemma Summerfield, Sopran

Dame Sarah Connolly, Mezzosopran

Andrew Staples, Tenor

Ashley Riches, Bassbariton

The Hallé Choir

Spieluhren und Saxophon, Gedichte und Gänse: The Hallé aus Manchester

Michael Klier, 14th January

Jonathan Bloxham dirigiert einen trostvollen Musikgenuss, der die Nachteile eines gestreamten Konzerts über lange Strecken vergessen ließ.

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Russian Spring: Elder and the Hallé reunite in glorious style

Leighton Jones, 7th May

The music of Glinka, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky fills Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall with mystery, intrigue and jollity.

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Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

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Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

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Nico Muhly’s vision of the end of the world comes to Sheffield

Phil Parker, 15th March

Doom – both personal and cosmic – and its aftermath are the focus of Alpesh Chauhan’s Hallé concert at Sheffield’s City Hall.

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Avant-garde echoes meet minimalist soundscapes in Hallé concert

Pwyll ap Sion, 26th February

Jonny Greenwood’s genre-defying music is given a powerful performance by violinist Daniel Pioro and members of The Hallé Orchestra under Hugh Tieppo-Brunt.

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Rohan Shotton

Rohan has reviewed concerts and opera across the UK and Europe, but chiefly in Manchester, where he enjoys conducting and playing percussion and piano. He works as a hospital doctor, having studied in St Andrews and Manchester, and tweets as @RohanShotton.

Elder's era-defining Elgar marathon with The Hallé closes with The Kingdom