Thursday 10 October - Elgar, Jacobean Lute Songs, Shakespeare, Berlioz, Walton
Thursday 24 October - Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov
Thursday 7 November - Colin Matthews, Berlioz, Elgar
Thursday 21 November - Dvorák, Brahms, Schumann
Thursday 5 December - Beethoven, Lutoslawski, Tchaikovsky
Thursday 16 January - R Strauss, Beethoven, Dvorák
Thursday 30 January - Enescu, Ravel, Stravinsky
Thursday 13 February - Weber,R Strauss, Mahler
Thursday 27 February - Sibelius, Walton, Ravel
Thursday 13 March - Bruckner
Thursday 27 March - Berlioz, Elgar, Rachmaninov
Thursday 10 April - Kodály, Bartók, Liszt, Janácek
Thursday 24 April - Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Shostakovich, Stravinsky
Thursday 8 May - Verdi
Thursday 15 May - Sawer, Schumann, R Strauss

Each Hallé Thursday Series concert (as well as some others) is preceded by a talk in the auditorium.
The talks take that evening's concert as their starting point, and are given by experts on the featured composers and repertoire. This season, following the success of Speakers' Corner last year, some of these talks have been extended into special events that explore a subject in greater depth and encourage participation from the audience.

Each of these Speakers' Corner events develops this season's assessment of Shakespeare and music: "Such Sweet Thunder". Gerard McBurney's fascinating and thought-provoking extended essay which accompanies these concerts, is available free of charge by e-mailing info@halle.co.uk with your postal address.

All of these talks and Speakers' Corner events are free.

The Pre-Concert Talks start at 6.30pm and the Speakers' Corner events start at 6pm.