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Thursday 19 May 2005, 7.30pm
PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 6.30PM IN THE AUDITORIUM
POST-CONCERT TALK IN THE AUDITORIUM
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
John Casken Rest-ringing WORLD PREMIERE
Sibelius The Oceanides
Nielsen Symphony No.4, 'The Inextinguishable'
Mark Elder conductor
The Lindsay String Quartet HALLÉ DEBUT
At the climax of this programme is Nielsen's dramatic Fourth Symphony, a kind of emotional exorcism, with a full-scale musical battle between two sets of timpani. 'Elders blistering account' (The Times on the Hallé's recording of Nielsen's Fifth Symphony). Siegfried Idyll is one of the best-loved pieces in the orchestral repertoire, a glowing and intimate poetic message from Wagner to his wife, Cosima. After building like a deep-sea swell, The Oceanides culminates like a breaker crashing on the shore. John Casken, whose Cello Concerto attracted great interest in the Thursday Series last season, has written an intriguing new work for the Hallé and The Lindsays to mark the quartet's retirement after 39 years.
The Hallé Patrons Concert
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