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Thursday 1 May 2008, 7.30pm
PRE-CONCERT EVENT AT 6.15PM | POST-CONCERT TALK
Harty The Mystic Trumpeter 35' HALLÉ FIRST | WORLD
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor 48'
Mark Elder conductor • Thomas Zehetmair violin • James Rutherford baritone • Hallé Choir
Happily for the Hallé, Zehetmair returns for a second concert with the orchestra, this time playing what is perhaps the warmest and richest of violin concertos: Elgar's, a work of tremendous nobility and elegiac passion. The first performance of this majestic masterpiece was given by Fritz Kreisler almost a century ago. No doubt Zehetmair will bring to it his own special flair and intensity. Mark Elder also presents a work by one of his predecessors as conductor of the Hallé: Hamilton Harty's The Mystic Trumpeter, a bold cantata to words by the American Walt Whitman, likely to be a treasurable disovery for many in the audience. 'Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.'
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