Avant-garde echoes meet minimalist soundscapes in Hallé concert

Jonny Greenwood

Daniel Pioro and The Hallé

Jonny Greenwood plays tanpura

Par Pwyll ap Sion, 28 février 2026

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“microtonal clusters, sweeping glissandos and extended string techniques”

Critique faite à The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, le 26 février 2026

Lutosławski, Musique funèbre (Funeral Music)

Greenwood, Water

Reich, Pulse

Greenwood, Violin Concerto (Revision of Horror vacui)

Hugh Tieppo-Brunt, Direction

Daniel Pioro, Violon

Jonny Greenwood, Electric bass, Tanpura

The Hallé

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.

***11

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

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

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Pwyll ap Sion

A composer and musicologist, Pwyll studied music at Oxford and is currently Professor of Music at Bangor University in Wales. He has published several books and articles on the music of Michael Nyman, Steve Reich and Philip Glass and is considered an authority on minimalist and postminimalist music. He writes regularly for Gramophone and Strad magazines, has given talks on Glass and Louis Andriessen for the Barbican’s ‘Total Immersion’ concert series, has been interviewed on BBC Radios 3 and 4, and contributed composer profiles and articles for the BBC Proms.

Greenwood everywhere: avant-garde echoes meet minimalist soundscapes in Manchester