Inviting Hallé

Hallé Youth Choir - Belgium Tour

Olympic Torch: Songs of Light and Shadow from around the world

Seven Magnificat Antiphons: V. O Morgenstern Arvo Pärt (Estonia)
The Spirit of the Lord Edward Elgar (UK)
Este Dal Zoltán Kodaly (Hungary)
The Song of Shadows Richard Wilberforce (UK)
‘Gute Nacht’ from Jesu Meine Freunde J.S. Bach (Germany)
Abendlied Josef Rheinberger (Liechtenstein)
Geistliches Lied Johannes Brahms (Germany)
Threshold of Night Tarik O’Regan (UK/Algeria)
Tota pulchra es Maurice Duruflé (France)
Nunc Dimittis Josquin Desprez (Belgian)
Seek him that maketh the seven stars Jonathan Dove (UK)
Ave Maris Stella Edvard Grieg (Norway)
Sfogava con le stelle Claudio Monteverdi (Italy) 
Trois beaux oiseux Maurice Ravel (Basque) 
Saarella palaa Jean Sibelius (Finland)
Ave regina caelorum Alonso Lobo (Spain)
Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre (America)

Tickets are available to purchase on the door.

San Sebastián - Debussy, Elgar and Strauss

Debussy Gigues and Rondes de Printemps
Elgar Cello Concerto
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben

Sir Mark Elder conductor | Gary Hoffman cello

The Hallé visits the stunning city of San Sebastián, located in the Basque region of northern Spain.

San Sebastián - Dvorák and Janácek

Dvorák Symphony No.9, 'From the New World'
Janácek Glagolitic Mass

Sir Mark Elder conductor | Giselle Allen soprano 
Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano | Peter Berger tenor 
Alexander Vinogradov bass | Darius Battiwalla organ
Orfeon Donostiarra

The Hallé visits the stunning city of San Sebastián, located in the Basque region of northern Spain.

Hallé Youth Choir - Belgium Tour

Olympic Torch: Songs of Light and Shadow from around the world

Seven Magnificat Antiphons: V. O Morgenstern Arvo Pärt (Estonia)
The Spirit of the Lord Edward Elgar (UK)
Este Dal Zoltán Kodaly (Hungary)
The Song of Shadows Richard Wilberforce (UK)
‘Gute Nacht’ from Jesu Meine Freunde J.S. Bach (Germany)
Abendlied Josef Rheinberger (Liechtenstein)
Geistliches Lied Johannes Brahms (Germany)
Threshold of Night Tarik O’Regan (UK/Algeria)
Tota pulchra es Maurice Duruflé (France)
Nunc Dimittis Josquin Desprez (Belgian)
Seek him that maketh the seven stars Jonathan Dove (UK)
Ave Maris Stella Edvard Grieg (Norway)
Sfogava con le stelle Claudio Monteverdi (Italy)
Trois beaux oiseux Maurice Ravel (Basque)
Saarella palaa Jean Sibelius (Finland)
Ave regina caelorum Alonso Lobo (Spain)
Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre (America)

Tickets are available to purchase on the door.

Hallé Youth Choir - Belgium Tour

Olympic Torch: Songs of Light and Shadow from around the world

Seven Magnificat Antiphons: V. O Morgenstern Arvo Pärt (Estonia)
The Spirit of the Lord Edward Elgar (UK)
Este Dal Zoltán Kodaly (Hungary)
The Song of Shadows Richard Wilberforce (UK)
‘Gute Nacht’ from Jesu Meine Freunde J.S. Bach (Germany)
Abendlied Josef Rheinberger (Liechtenstein)
Geistliches Lied Johannes Brahms (Germany)
Threshold of Night Tarik O’Regan (UK/Algeria)
Tota pulchra es Maurice Duruflé (France)
Nunc Dimittis Josquin Desprez (Belgian)
Seek him that maketh the seven stars Jonathan Dove (UK)
Ave Maris Stella Edvard Grieg (Norway)
Sfogava con le stelle Claudio Monteverdi (Italy)
Trois beaux oiseux Maurice Ravel (Basque)
Saarella palaa Jean Sibelius (Finland)
Ave regina caelorum Alonso Lobo (Spain)
Lux Aurumque Eric Whitacre (America)

Tickets are available to purchase on the door.

BBC Proms - Prom 36

Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello
Programme includes:

Perchance to Dream: We'll Gather Lilacs
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Glamorous Night: Overture
Glamorous Night: Fold Your Wings
Crest of the Wave: Why Isn't It You?
The Dancing Years: I Can Give You The Starlight
The Dancing Years: My Life Belongs To You
Gay's The Word: Selection (arr.G. L. Zalva)
The Dancing Years: My Dearest Dear
King's Rhapsody: Some Day My Heart Will Awake
King's Rhapsody: The Violin Began To Play
Glamorous Night: Shine Through My Dreams
Careless Rapture: Love Made The Song 

Sir Mark Elder conductor | Simon Callow presenter
Sophie Bevan soprano | Toby Spence tenor

Tonight we acknowledge that patriotic First World War plea to ‘keep the home fires burning’ in a tribute to a silent-movie actor, West End playwright, composer and star of a string of stage musicals hugely popular in their day.

Ivor Novello, the most consistently successful composer of British musicals before the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, nowadays tends to be unjustly neglected. Sir Mark Elder is a committed advocate, as is tonight’s master of ceremonies, Simon Callow.

BBC Proms - Prom 37

Elgar The Apostles
(interval after part 1)

Sir Mark Elder conductor 
Rebecca Evans soprano | Alice Coote mezzo soprano
Paul Groves tenor | Iain Paterson bass-baritone
Jacques Imbrailo baritone | Clive Bayley bass
Hallé Choir | Hallé Youth Choir 
London Philharmonic Choir 

The music of Elgar is in Sir Mark Elder’s blood. Tonight, in the company of vast choral and orchestral forces and a stellar cast of soloists, he conducts the composer’s rarely-performed masterpiece The Apostles. A work that deserves far greater recognition (some critics believe it superior to The Dream of Gerontius), its mystic choruses and its vivid orchestration are just a few of its more remarkable features. The work’s closing section – depicting Christ’s Ascension to heaven – is surely one of the most poignant ever written.