Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 and Sunday 10 December 2006, 7.30pm

Beethoven Overture: Leonora No.3   14'
Haydn Cello Concerto in C   17'
Brahms Symphony No.4 in E minor  42'

Hans Graf conductor • Nicholas Trygstad cello

'Stupendous, original and rocklike ... incomparable strength from start to finish' is how one conductor-friend described Brahms's most magnificent symphonic achievement – his warmly autumnal, orchestral swan-song. The Hallé's Principal Cello, Nicholas Trygstad, is rapidly making his name as an outstanding instrumentalist. He plays Haydn's beguiling early Cello Concerto in C, missing for some 200 years until it turned up in 1961. Its freshness, vitality and unusual traces of older Baroque characteristics struck an immediate note with cellists and audiences.

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Thursday 7 December - BUY ONLINE
Sunday 10 December - BUY ONLINE