Thursday 16th November 2017
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
From £13.50 (inc. booking fees); £5 student offer available
Concert begins at 7.30pm
Approximate finishing time 9.20pm
VERA CLEGG MEMORIAL CONCERT
Wagner - Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg music
R. Strauss - Don Juan
Verdi - Four Sacred Pieces
Conductor
Sir Mark Elder
Featuring:
Chanáe Curtis, Soprano
Choir:
Hallé Choir
The conflict between spiritual and sensual love has been a recurring theme in art throughout the ages and is central to Wagner’s Tannhäuser. The concert begins with two orchestral pieces from the opera that vividly dramatise the conflict (the Venusberg music being a true orgy of sound!). Richard Strauss’s take on the life of the fictional libertine, Don Juan, is both graphically drawn and one of the great orchestral showpieces. Verdi was more a man of the theatre than the church, though in the last decade of his life he produced his moving Sacred Pieces for choir and orchestra, closing with the Te Deum, his splendid and startling hymn of praise.
This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Please visit BBC Radio 3 website for more details.
(Image credit: Benjamin Ealovega)
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