Bleak polar landscapes evoked by The Hallé in Sinfonia Antartica

Por Rohan Shotton, 25 enero 2019

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“Hough's playing every bit as colourful as his socks”

Crítica hecha desde The Bridgewater Hall, Mánchester el 24 enero 2019

Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini: Overture

Saint-Saëns, Concierto para piano núm. 5 en fa mayor, "Egipcio", Op.103

Debussy, Préludes, Bk 1 no. 8: La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair)

Vaughan Williams, Symphony no. 7 “Sinfonia antartica”

The Hallé

Sir Mark Elder, Dirección

Sir Stephen Hough, Piano

Ladies of the Hallé Choir

Sophie Bevan, Soprano

The Hallé y Kahchung Wong poco comunicativos en València

Daniel Martínez Babiloni, 14th January

The Hallé presentó a Kahchung Wong, su nuevo director titular, en un concierto tedioso y poco comunicativo.

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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.

*****

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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Celestial journeys with Kahchun Wong and the Hallé

Rohan Shotton, 19th February

Kahchun Wong returns to The Hallé for Holst and Unsuk Chin, with a postscript from Colin Matthews

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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.