Inviting Hallé

Manchester - Pops: Oscars for Orchestra

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Titanic (My Heart Will Go On)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Top Gun (Take My Breath Away)
Robin Hood March
The Way We Were
Out of Africa
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Jurassic Park
Casablanca (As Time Goes By)
Beauty and the Beast
The Lord of the Rings
Calamity Jane (Secret Love)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
The Thomas Crown Affair (Windmills Of Your Mind)
Ben Hur
and our latest Oscar winner Skyfall

Stephen Bell conductor | Anna-Jane Casey vocalist

A dazzling array of Box Office greats are given their chance to shine from The Bridgewater Hall stage. Award-laden arrangements showcase the talents of this great orchestra and remind us that behind every blockbuster, is a blockbuster score.

Are you 26 or under? 
PwC and the Hallé have teamed up to create the PwC Hallé Under 26 ticket. A limited number of stalls seats, usually worth up to £26, are being offered at half price.

Debussy La Mer
Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Cristian Mandeal conductor
Sophie Bevan soprano *
Matthew Brook baritone

The Sheffield International Concert Season’s 80th Birthday celebrations draw to a close with a tremendous gathering of voices, the orchestral magnificence of the award-winning Hallé and internationally acclaimed soloists, Sophie Bevan and Matthew Brook, all under the direction of conductor, Cristian Mandeal. Debussy’s La Mer, three impressionistic symphonic sketches, vividly capture the ever-changing seascape featuring sunlight, storms and alluring sirens. The natural majesty and splendour of the sea also influenced the choral symphony of the English composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams. From its exultant brass fanfare and rapturous choral opening, these buoyant settings of Walt Whitman’s poems, slowly fade into the sea’s unfathomable depths.

Pre-concert Talk with Trisha Cooper at 6pm

* The Hallé Concerts Society is very grateful to Sophie Bevan for replacing Sarah Fox who has had to withdraw.

Beethoven Overture: Egmont
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1
Dvorák Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'

Cristian Mandeal conductor
tbc piano

Conducted by Cristian Mandeal, this concert will feature Beethoven's youthful First Piano Concerto, a work of great brilliance and virtuosity. Though modelled on the late piano concertos of Mozart, Beethoven's own musical voice is already very much in evidence. The second half of the concert features one of the most popular symphonies in the repertoire - Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'. Packed with famous tunes, Dvorák's best-known work combines the folk music and landscapes of America with a yearning nostalgia for the composer's native Bohemia.

Drinks and canapés available in the Kathleen Ferrier bar from 6pm
From 6.30pm the Hallé's Head of Artistic Planning, Geoffrey Owen, will introduce the 2013-2014 season in the auditorium.

Weber Der Freischütz
Stravinsky Petrushka
Sibelius Symphony No.2

Sir Mark Elder conductor

When Weber’s opera Der Freischütz premiered in 1821, it became an immediate hit, and the Overture has become one of the most popular pieces in the concert hall repertoire. Stravinsky’s fabulously colourful ballet score Petrushka, detailing the turbulent love-life of a puppet amidst the bustle of a Russian shrove-tide fair, moves at a breathtaking pace, and paints a series of wonderful, evocative musical pictures. Sir Mark is regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of Sibelius’s music, and ever since it’s triumphant UK premiere – by the Hallé – in 1905, the Second Symphony has been this country’s favourite. Though the composer denied it was his ‘Liberation Symphony’, its power, romance and triumphant finale were seen as an explosive patriotic stand against Russian imperialism – and still brings the listener to the edge of their seat.

Nottingham - Drivetime concert

Silvestri Back to the Future
Falla Finale from The Three Cornered Hat Suite
Rossini La Danza
Ravel The Fairy Garden from Mother Goose
Copland Hoe Down from Rodeo
John Williams Star Wars - Across the Stars
Handel Hallelujah from Messiah
Steve Pickett We Strive for the Stars (world première)
Shostakovich Finale from Symphony No. 5

Jamie Phillips conductor | Tom Redmond presenter

Leave the rush hour behind and go on a more exciting journey! The Drivetime Concert is the perfect place to experience the hair-raising sound of a live symphony orchestra. Led by presenter Tom Redmond, the Hallé performs a lively, informal hour of great classics and film music that will leave you wanting more. All the pieces are introduced so it's ideal for first-timers and families. You can even enjoy a drink from the bar during the performance.

Join the Drivetime Choir and sing with the Hallé!
We're also offering the once-in-a-lifetime chance to sing two spectacular choruses with the Hallé - the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah and the world premiere of 'We Strive for the Stars', an inspiring new piece we've had specially written for the Drivetime Choir. The Drivetime Choir is free to join, open to singers of all ages and experience, and you'll get expert coaching from Music for Everyone's Director, Angela Kay.

For more details and to apply online click here

Manchester - Proms: Beside the Seaside, Beside the Sea!

Walton Portsmouth Point
Khachaturian Spartacus: Adagio
Jonathan Dove Seaside Postcards: 'Wish you were here', 'The sea is calm' and 'Having a lovely time'
Debussy En Bateau
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs
arr. Alasdair Malloy Notes on a Postcard
Britten Storm from Peter Grimes
Arnold The Padstow Lifeboat
James Horner Titanic: Setting Sail for Disaster
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade: The Sea and Shipwreck
George Fenton Blue Planet
Teodore Shapiro The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

The Hallé Children's Choir are making a big splash every year in their eagerly-awaited Bridgewater Hall appearances, this time with Jonathan Dove's colourful set of Seaside Postcards. Alasdair Malloy has dug out his bucket and spade and takes us on a trip to the coast, with a lively programme inspired by the sea and everything around, beside, on and beneath it!

Stephen Bell conductor | Alasdair Malloy presenter | Hallé Children's Choir

Tickets:
Adults £13 | Children £7
Family ticket £33 (four people including at least one child)

Britten The Prince of the Pagodas - Pas de Six op. 57a (12)
Britten Our Hunting Fathers (27) 
Rihm A Tribute (Über die Linie VIII) (20) World Premiere*
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (18)

Sir Mark Elder conductor | Emma Bell soprano

Is there a more joyous, thrilling moment in twentieth century music than the closing pages of Britten’s Purcell-inspired concerto for orchestra? The triumphal return of Purcell’s ancient but familiar theme at the conclusion to this riotously inventive, colourful tour de force simply takes the breath away.

Including the fifth and final Aldeburgh world premiere in the Royal Philharmonic Society/Britten–Pears Foundation commissions, this concert traces Britten’s music from the rarely heard exoticism of an orient-inspired ballet via his first major orchestral song cycle as a fitting celebration to end the centenary Festival. Sir Mark Elder brings the Hallé to Snape Maltings less than twelve months after his unforgettable concerts with the Aldeburgh World Orchestra.

* 2013 RPS/BPF co-commission

Manchester - Proms: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back

I Get A Kick Out Of You It All Depends On You Nice 'N' Easy You Make Me Feel So Young Without A Song Just One Of Those Things Come Fly With Me Nancy With The Laughing Face From This Moment On Ol' Man River Luck Be A Lady

Let's Face The Music And Dance It Happened in Monterey When Your Lover Has Gone How About You? Brazil I Get Along Without You Very Well I've Got You Under My Skin My Kind Of Town New York, New York A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square My Way

Ol' Blue Eyes is back! Vocalist Gary Williams has been hailed as the closest thing today to hearing Sinatra himself. In this special tribute with the unmistakable orchestral arrangements Sinatra used, Gary will join the Hallé and Roderick Dunk for hit after toe-tappin' hit!

Roderick Dunk conductor | Gary Williams vocalist

Are you 26 or under?

PwC and the Hallé have teamed up to create the PwC Hallé Under 26 ticket. A limited number of stalls seats, usually worth up to £26, are being offered at half price.