Víkingur Ólafsson's star shines in Manchester

Von Aaron Davies, 21 September 2019

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, am 19 September 2019

Beethoven, Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43: Ouvertüre

Beethoven, Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 in C-Dur, Op.15

Bach, Andante in D Minor, BWV528a (trans. August Stradal)

Schostakowitsch, Symphonie Nr. 5 in d-Moll, Op.47

The Hallé

Klaus Mäkelä, Musikalische Leitung

Víkingur Ólafsson, Klavier

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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An end-of-term Mahler 6 from the Hallé in Manchester

Rohan Shotton, 28th May

Kahchun Wong conducts The Hallé in Mahler's epic Sixth Symphony, although directorial idiosyncrasies sometimes get in the way of the music.

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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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Aaron Davies

A lifelong aficionado of classical music in all its various guises, Aaron spent his formative years studying musical composition whilst playing a number of instruments. Today, his day job involves running an international technology business. He derives particular pleasure from expanding his “virtual” music library via the use of online streaming services. If pressed to compile a desert island disc, he would most likely select works from the catalogues of Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninov and Gershwin.

Víkingur Ólafsson's star shines on a powerfully emotional night in Manchester