Echoes and pre-echoes: Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé at the Proms

Par Alexander Hall, 08 septembre 2021

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“crystalline articulation, sparkle and brilliance in colouring, bravura control in rapid passagework”

Critique faite à Royal Albert Hall, Londres, le 7 septembre 2021

Chin, subito con forza* (UK premiere)

Beethoven, Concerto pour piano et orchestre no. 4 en sol majeur, Op. 58

Liszt, 2 Konzertetüden: Gnomenreigen (Danse des Lutins), S 145 no. 2

Saint-Saëns, Symphonie no. 3 en ut mineur «Symphonie avec orgue», Op.78

Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano

Anna Lapwood, Orgue

The Hallé

Sir Mark Elder, Direction

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.

****1

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

***11

The Hallé brings Salonen, Grieg and Sibelius to Sheffield

Phil Parker, 23rd January

Dazzling young German pianist Julius Asal and stand-in conductor Duncan Ward breathe new life into the familiar in repertoire by Grieg and Sibelius.

****1

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Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall divides his time between London and Hamburg, where he had a career in academic administration and teaching. He reviews for Bachtrack and Opera Today, and has also reviewed for Classical Source. A connoisseur of the great orchestras of the world, his musical memories stretch back to Karajan/Berlin Phil, Mravinsky/Leningrad Phil, Bernstein/Vienna Phil, and he has seen most of the great conductors from the past, including Böhm, Klemperer, Kubelik, Ormandy and Szell.

Echoes and pre-echoes: Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé with Benjamin Grosvenor at the Proms