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Review: An evening of Ravel, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
In a brief intermission between winter storms, concert-goers in Manchester took shelter in The Bridgewater Hall and warmed themselves with the musical radiance of the Hallé Orchestra.
A defiant performance: the Hallé Orchestra opens its 2019-2020 season
Last week, with the final embers of Summer illuminating the evening sky in Manchester, music lovers came together to greet the opening of Hallé Orchestra’s 2019-2020 season.
Manchester…forever ANZAC
In Manchester, in the north of England, there is a corner of an English field that is forever ANZAC.
Review: Terra Nova, Vaughan Williams at the Hallé
Last week the Hallé Orchestra took its audience on an heroic expedition, one that began in the splendour of a Papal Palace before advancing, through the drifting sands of Egypt, to the frozen wastelands of Antarctica.
A very Hallé Christmas: it’s the festive season in Manchester with the Hallé Orchestra
When does Christmas begin?
Review: Room 103 – a tribute to George Orwell, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
George Orwell had relatively little comment on the subject of the visual arts save to say that he didn’t much care for Salvador Dali whose autobiography he described as “simply a strip-tease act conducted in pink limelight”.
Review: Thus spoke the Hallé, Strauss and Janácek, Bridgewater Hall
The Hallé Orchestra and the Hallé Choir came together in Manchester recently to deliver a performance of epic proportions in a highly accomplished presentation of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass.
Review: The Hallé Orchestra – 2018/19 Season Opening Concert, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Last Thursday in Manchester, with the wind howling and the rain falling so heavily that mass evacuation by ark seemed likely, the Hallé Orchestra opened its 2018/19 season under its guest conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens.
#BeeInTheCity: Northern Soul chats to Sneezebee
If you’ve been out and about in Manchester this summer, you’ll probably have noticed some new arrivals in the city. That’s right…the Manchester bees have landed.
Review: Violence and compassion – Shostakovich, Bach and Mendelssohn at The Bridgewater Hall
The Hallé Orchestra brought this season’s focus on Shostakovich to a fittingly dramatic climax with a performance of the great Soviet composer’s powerful eighth symphony at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
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