A reverential Gerontius from Elder and The Hallé

The Dream of Gerontius

Sir Mark Elder

Women of The Hallé Choir

Por Rohan Shotton, 07 junio 2023

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“The big set pieces of the evening were carried off with all the expected floor-shaking grandeur”

Crítica hecha desde The Bridgewater Hall, Mánchester el 4 junio 2023

Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius, Oratorio for soloists chorus and orchestra, Op.38

The Hallé

Sir Mark Elder, Dirección

Alice Coote, Mezzosoprano

Michael Spyres, Tenor

Neal Davies, Bajo-barítono

The Hallé Choir

Hallé Youth Choir and Alumni

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.

**111

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.

****1

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.

****1

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.

****1

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.

An extraordinarily reverential Gerontius from Elder and The Hallé in Manchester