≥ 2016–17 SEASON CONCERTS AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER Northern Legends – Gods, Kings and Folklore Our civilization’s enduring fascination with folklore and our reluctance to let the truth get in the way of a good story has always inspired music as much as any of the arts. Legends from Nordic, Celtic and Slavic cultures, enjoying an explosion of renewed interest in the Romantic era, led to many glories of the orchestral repertoire. Throughout the coming months, powerful and colourful images of gods, kings, giants and other fantastic creatures are rarely far away, with some intriguing connections and contrasts coming to light. The Bridgewater Hall will once again echo to the sound of massed choirs and Manchester’s two great symphony orchestras – the largest orchestra on stage yet – at the season’s climax. A famous love-story from medieval Danish folklore became the vehicle for Schoenberg’s epic lyric symphony ‘Gurrelieder’, which closes this memorable season of concerts. Taking shape between 1900 and 1910, it shares a musical landscape with Strauss, Mahler and a little of his own later style. The young Viennese composer seized upon the story to convey human passion, joy, grief, loss, and eventual renewal in one of the most romantic and sensual masterpieces of its kind, with a blazing sunrise to finish. Without the epoch-making music-dramas of Wagner, some thirty years before, ‘Gurrelieder’ could not have been written. ‘Das Rheingold’ – the first part of Wagner’s great ‘Ring’ cycle – drew inspiration from old Norse sagas and broke new ground as to the scale and intensity of the musical result. But the background story is always optional; it’s the music that tells the tale and sets the imagination free. Whether or not one is well-versed in the machinations of Wotan and his fellow gods, the astonishing long orchestral crescendo which opens ‘Das Rheingold’ evokes the elemental force of a great river, a great drama, and a sense of a thrilling evening to come.

Sir Mark Elder CONTENTS

September 3 October 3 November 7 December 10 January 16 February 18 Elgar Festival 20 March 22 April 26 May 28 June 30 Hallé Youth Ensembles • Pre-concert events 32 Booking information 33 Fixed subscription diary 40

The concerts that take Northern Legends as their theme thread through this season. Follow them by looking for this mark.

The Hallé’s celebration of the music of Elgar takes place over three concerts in March 2017. See page 20 for more details.

2 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Thursday 22 September, 7.30pm Sunday 25 September, 7.30pm Wednesday 28 September, 2.15pm Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Hamlet 18’ Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 19’ Beethoven Symphony No.6, ‘Pastoral’ 40’ Sir Mark Elder conductor • Benjamin Grosvenor piano For our first Opus One concerts of the season, Sir Mark and the orchestra are joined by one of the finest young pianists in the world, Benjamin Grosvenor, who performs Liszt’s dazzling First Concerto. As well as being a virtuoso showpiece, the work will also highlight the poetic qualities Benjamin’s playing has in abundance. ‘No one can love the countryside as much as I do’, wrote Beethoven, and this love was eloquently expressed in his timeless ‘Pastoral’ symphony. With its depictions of the ‘happy song of the birds’, the ‘sweet murmur of a brook’, the ‘dreaded storm’ and much more, it never fails to delight and inspire. The concert begins with Tchaikovsky’s tone poem inspired by Shakespeare’s brooding Prince of Denmark, Hamlet. BEETHOVEN • LISZT • TCHAIKOVSKY • LISZT BEETHOVEN Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

Saturday 1 October, 7.30pm Classical Extravaganza Dvoˇrák Overture: Carnival Pachelbel Canon Shostakovich Romance from ‘The Gadfly’ Bernstein Overture: Candide Elgar Enigma Variations: VIII ‘WN’, IX ‘Nimrod’, XIV ‘Finale’ Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks: excerpts Fauré Pavane Rossini Overture: William Tell Coates Calling All Workers Stephen Bell conductor Join us for a feast of the world’s best-loved classical favourites. Our Extravaganzas always receive a rousing reception and are the perfect introduction to live orchestral music. Hear Stephen Bell EXTRAVAGANZA CLASSICAL conduct one of Europe’s great orchestras as they perform hit after hit from the classical world. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 3 Thursday 6 October, 7.30pm Verdi Macbeth: scenes 24' Beethoven Symphony No.9, ‘Choral’ 67' Sir Mark Elder conductor • Soloists • Hallé Choir Sir Mark, the Hallé and the Hallé Choir open the Thursday series in grandly dramatic fashion. The first half features scenes from Verdi’s Macbeth . Throughout, Verdi strove to convey Shakespeare’s vivid sense of pity and terror. The selection ends with the famous sleepwalking scene in which Lady Macbeth descends into madness. Beethoven’s Ninth, described by Wagner as ‘the ultimate symphony’, also confronts terror and the darker side of existence. Overall, however, it is an extraordinary journey towards enlightenment that culminates in a rapturous setting of Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’.

VERDI • BEETHOVEN Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

Wednesday 19 October, 2.15pm Thursday 20 October, 7.30pm Sunday 23 October, 7.30pm Mussorgsky orch. Rimsky-Korsakov Night on the Bare Mountain 10’ Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto 27’ Bartók Hungarian Sketches 11’ Borodin Symphony No.2 28’ Gergely Madaras conductor • Katherine Baker flute • Marie Leenhardt harp Two of the Hallé’s principal players, Katherine Baker and Marie Leenhardt are soloists in Mozart’s lovely Flute and Harp Concerto. It is a work of great delicacy and charm in which the two instruments complement each other to perfection. In the rest of the programme the young Hungarian Gergely Madaras, a rising star of the podium, conducts three varied Eastern European works: Mussorgsky’s devilish Night on the Bare Mountain; Bartók’s Hungarian Sketches – with their infectious Magyar merriment and melancholy; and finally Borodin’s stirring Second Symphony, a piece once aptly described as having ‘the flavour of an ancient Russian epic’. Its finale is an exultant orchestral revel.

BORODIN • BARTÓK • MOZART •MUSSORGSKY • MOZART • BARTÓK BORODIN Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

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≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 5 Thursday 27 October, 7.30pm Copland Fanfare for the Common Man 3' Britten Sinfonia da Requiem 22' Tippett A Child of Our Time 66' Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Sophie Bevan soprano • Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano Mark Padmore tenor • Matthew Brook bass-baritone • Hallé Choir Tippett’s choral masterpiece A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the Second World War as a protest against ‘man’s inhumanity to man’. Modelled on Handel’s Messiah and the Passions of J.S. Bach, its emotional essence lies in five spirituals Tippett incorporated into the score in which the suffering of oppressed people throughout history is given universal resonance. Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem dates from the same troubled period as the Tippett and is also an intensely humanistic piece. In the work Britten expresses anger and despair at the cataclysm

TIPPETT • BRITTEN COPLAND beginning to engulf the world. As a precursor to both, the concert opens with Copland’s great tribute to his fellow Americans, a piece also written during the same conflict. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

Saturday 29 October, 7.30pm The Music of Star Wars Episodes I – VII A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ... Feel the full force of the Hallé as we bring the highlights of John Williams’ music from every episode of Star Wars to the stage of The Bridgewater Hall. Packed with some of the most recognisable cinematic themes from The Phantom Menace to The Force Awakens this concert packs more punch than an Imperial blaster. Dress to impress and relive the rise and fall of the Empire in one action packed evening. May the Force be with you. Stephen Bell conductor • Tom Redmond presenter • Hallé Youth Choir Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) THE MUSIC OF STAR WARS OF STAR THE MUSIC

In partnership with Manchester Science Festival

6 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Thursday 10 November, 7.30pm Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) * 10'

Bruch Violin Concerto No.2 27' JANÁ THE VERA CLEGG CONCERT MEMORIAL Janáˇcek Jealousy 6' MENDELSSOHN • BRUCH CEK •VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Vaughan Williams Symphony No.6 31' ˇ Sir Mark Elder conductor • Jonathon Heyward conductor * • James Ehnes violin Mendelssohn’s briny Hebrides Overture was inspired by a storm-tossed voyage to Fingal’s Cave on the island of Staffa. It is conducted here by the Hallé’s new Assistant Conductor, Jonathon Heyward. James Ehnes gives a rare performance of Bruch’s Second Violin Concerto. Its wealth of great melody and virtuoso writing makes for fascinating comparison with its hugely popular predecessor. Fascinating too is Jealousy by Janáˇcek, a passionate work originally conceived as the overture to his opera Jen˚ufa . Many interpreted Vaughan Williams’s stormy Sixth Symphony as a ‘war symphony’ after its premiere in 1944, though he strenuously denied this. Instead, the composer likened its hushed final epilogue to Prospero’s line in Shakespeare’s The Tempest : ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’ Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

Wednesday 16 November, 2.15pm Thursday 17 November, 7.30pm

Sunday 20 November, 7.30pm SIBELIUS • BEETHOVEN •WAGNER Wagner Overture: The Flying Dutchman 11’ Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5, ‘Emperor’ 40’ Sibelius Symphony No.2 43’ Andrew Manze conductor • Martin Helmchen piano Andrew Manze returns to the Hallé to conduct a typically imaginative and compelling programme. Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman Overture is a masterful microcosm of an opera about a man condemned by Satan to forever sail the seas. Its storm episode is one of the most dramatic ever written. The New York Times described Martin Helmchen as possessing ‘a noble bearing and a noble sound’. He is the perfect soloist for Beethoven’s majestic ‘Emperor’ concerto. Premiered in 1902, Sibelius’s Second Symphony immediately became an emblem for Finnish people in their battle against Russian oppression. Sibelius hadn’t intended such a purpose, but a sense of heroic struggle still lies at the work’s core. Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 7 Sunday 27 November, 5pm Wagner Das Rheingold Sir Mark Elder conductor Woglinde Sarah Tynan soprano Wellgunde Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano Flosshilde Leah-Marian Jones mezzo-soprano Alberich Christopher Purves baritone Wotan Iain Paterson bass-baritone Fricka Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Freia Emma Bell soprano Fasolt Reinhard Hagen bass Fafner Clive Bayley bass Donner David Stout baritone Froh David Butt Philip tenor Loge Will Hartmann tenor Mime Gerhard Siegel tenor Erda Susanne Resmark mezzo-soprano A superb cast of soloists joins acclaimed Wagnerian, Sir Mark and the orchestra for a concert performance of Das Rheingold , the first part of Wagner’s epic The Ring of the Niebelung , with its origins in the ancient Norse sagas. The story of the cycle concerns the struggles of gods, heroes and other mythical figures over the possession of a magic ring that gives its bearer mastery over the entire world. It begins with a magnificent orchestral evocation of the River Rhine and ends

WAGNER DAS RHEINGOLD DAS WAGNER with the gods ascending into Valhalla over a magic rainbow. In between, much of the action of The Ring is set up, Wagner using a series of ingenious musical leitmotifs associated with its various characters, locations and themes. It will be a remarkable musical and dramatic experience. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

‘ The orchestra, reinforced for the occasion to more than 100 and with enough harps on- and off-stage to re-stock Paradise, responded with world-class playing from every section. Elder’s Hallé is now transcendent.’ The Daily Telegraph on the Hallé’s performance of Wagner’s ‘Götterdämmerung’

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≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 9 Thursday 1 December, 7.30pm Classical Greats Berlioz Overture: Le Carnaval romain Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Ravel Tzigane, rhapsody for violin and orchestra Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition Stephen Bell conductor • Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is one of the greatest ever written. Its world premiere was given in 1881 by Adolph Brodsky, who was later to become Leader of the Hallé. Tonight’s soloist, Tamsin Waley-Cohen is one of Britain’s brightest violin stars; ‘Waley-Cohen’s playing is radiant and soaring’ said The Sunday Times . Tonight’s programme also features Berlioz’s dazzling Roman Carnival

CLASSICAL GREATS CLASSICAL Overture, Ravel’s exotic Tzigane (Gypsy), which also features Tamsin and is packed with infectious rhythms. We finish with Mussorgsky’s dramatic, elegant Pictures at an Exhibition , complete with The Great Gate of Kiev . Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

Saturday 3 December, 7.30pm Handel Messiah 135' Christian Curnyn conductor Joanne Lunn soprano • Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano Stuart Jackson tenor • James Platt bass • Hallé Choir December is the time of year for Handel’s magisterial Messiah. After its premiere in Dublin in 1742 the piece soon became a choral institution and the Victorians staged lavish performances of the work with vast choruses and orchestras. Today, however, less being more, Handel’s great work has re-emerged in its original, leaner form. Handel specialist Christian Curnyn is the ideal person to do full justice to the composer’s intentions. From its stately overture to the famous ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ and beyond, the inspirational Messiah is perfect fare for the lead-up to Christmas. HANDEL MESSIAH Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

10 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Wednesday 7 December, 2.15pm Thursday 8 December, 7.30pm Sunday 11 December, 7.30pm

Ravel Mother Goose Suite 16’ RAVEL • BRAHMS • HAYDN Haydn Symphony No.88 25’ Brahms Violin Concerto 41’ Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Viviane Hagner violin Principal Guest Conductor of the Hallé, Ryan Wigglesworth, conducts the lovely Mother Goose – five ‘fairytale’ pieces Ravel originally composed for the children of two friends. With Tom Thumb, Beauty and the Beast and nodding toy figures, Ravel leads us into an enchanting sound- world. German violinist Viviane Hagner always leaves a lasting impression. In these concerts she performs Brahms’s lyrical and masterfully constructed Violin Concerto. Brahms wrote it in a relaxed holiday mood as he savoured the stunning natural beauties of Carinthia. The work ends with a spirited Hungarian-style finale. Haydn’s G major symphony is one of the composer’s most concise, brilliant and humorous creations. Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

Sunday 11 December, 3pm Christmas Family Concert

Jonathon Heyward conductor • Alasdair Malloy presenter CHRISTMAS FAMILY CONCERT Calling all children, parents and grandparents. Join Alasdair Malloy and Santa’s little helpers, the Hallé, for the annual fun-filled festive family concert, full of sing-alongs, jingle-alongs, seasonal surprises, orchestral antics and audience amazement. The perfect way to start a family Christmas, this cracker of a concert is so popular, even Father Christmas takes time out to attend. Why not get into the spirit and dress up as a snowman or Rudolph? If you have any sleigh bells – homemade or real – then bring them along and join in. Tickets: Adult £24, Child £15 (aged 17 and under) Family Ticket (4 people minimum 1 child) £62

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 11 12 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Friday 16 December, 7.30pm Winter Wonderland with Clare Teal Including: Winter Wonderland; What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? ; The Christmas Song

(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) ; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! ; Snowbound ; WINTER WONDERLAND All I Want For Christmas ; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ; White Christmas ; Sleigh Ride and more. Stephen Bell conductor • Clare Teal vocalist Winners of the Hallé Corporate Choir Competition • Hallé Youth Training Choir Following huge Hallé successes with her tributes to Ella Fitzgerald and the First Ladies of Song, we are delighted to welcome back the great singer, songwriter and broadcaster Clare Teal. Clare will perform the perfect selection of seasonal favourites, alongside some great orchestral arrangements. Tickets from £21 (including booking fee)

Saturday 17 December, 3pm Sunday 18 December, 3pm and 7.30pm Hallé Carol Concerts The concerts include: O Little Town of Bethlehem ; O Come, All Ye Faithful; Away in a Manger ; Good King Wenceslas CAROL CONCERTS and Once in Royal David’s City . I’m a Little Christmas Cracker ; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day ; Bach’s Magnificat ; Morten Lauridsen’s ‘O Magnum Mysterium’ and Sleigh Ride Stephen Bell conductor • Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir • Hallé Children’s Choir Join us for a seasonal selection of traditional carols for orchestra, choir and audience. You can sing some wonderful Christmas favourites, and hear the Orchestra and our three choirs perform even more, but there’s every chance that our own ‘Little Christmas Crackers’, the Hallé Children’s Choir will steal the show! Tickets from £21 (including booking fee)

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 13 Tuesday 20 December, 1.30pm and 4pm Wednesday 21 December, 11am and 1.30pm The Snowman Paddington Bear’s First Concert Herbert Chappell The Snowman Howard Blake Jonathon Heyward conductor • Tom Redmond narrator Bring all the family along to the big screening of The Snowman , the animated classic by Raymond Briggs. The film will be accompanied live by the Hallé performing Howard Blake’s beautiful score – including the magical song ‘Walking in the Air’. In the first half of the concert narrator Tom Redmond accompanies Paddington through his

THE SNOWMAN adventures as the marmalade-loving bear arrives in London from darkest Peru, meets The Browns, Mr Gruber and goes to his very first concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Tickets: Adult £24, Child £16 (aged 17 and under), Family Ticket (4 people minimum 1 child) £64

Friday 23 December, 7.30pm Christmas at the Movies Including music from: Polar Express ; White Christmas; The Nightmare Before Christmas ; Babes in Toyland ; Frozen ; The Sound of Music ; Harry Potter and Happy Feet Stephen Bell conductor What is Christmas without a great Christmas movie? Just look at the list of Christmas treats we have lined up – each one featuring a magnificent orchestral score. The Hallé will raise the rafters with music from the comedies, adventures, romances, swords and sorcerers that make up tonight’s concert – join us and hear your favourite Christmas movie music, live! Tickets from £21 (including booking fee) CHRISTMAS AT THE MOVIES AT CHRISTMAS

14 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL QUEEN: A ROCK AND SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR Thursday 29 December, 7.30pm Queen: A Rock and Symphonic Spectacular Including: Seven Seas of Rhye , I Want to Break Free , Play the Game , Under Pressure , Killer Queen, Radio Ga Ga , Tie Your Mother Down , Fat Bottomed Girls , I Want it All, One Vision, Who Wants to Live Forever , A Kind of Magic, Crazy Little Thing Called Love , Don’t Stop Me Now, Another One Bites the Dust, Somebody to Love , Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You and We are the Champions and more ... Richard Sidwell conductor Ricardo Afonso, Rachael Wooding, Jenna Lee-James and Peter Eldridge vocalists A top line-up of star vocalists join over eighty Hallé musicians to celebrate what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 70th birthday year. Our tribute features a fantastic collection of Queen’s greatest hits, and you can bring your drinks in and raise a glass to a true rock icon. Tickets from £21 (including booking fee)

Friday 30 December, 7.30pm An Evening with 007 Including music from: Spectre, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service , You Only Live Twice , GoldenEye , From Russia With Love , Live and Let Die , Quantum of Solace , AN EVENING WITH 007 The World is Not Enough , Goldfinger, A View to a Kill, Thunderball , Skyfall , For Your Eyes Only , The Spy Who Loved Me , Moonraker , The Living Daylights , Licence to Kill, Diamonds Are Forever and Casino Royale . Stephen Bell conductor • Alison Jiear and Matthew Ford vocalists Smooth as a vodka martini, elegant as a tuxedo and cool as a cucumber sandwich, Stephen Bell celebrates the ultimate British hero – James Bond. Feel free to take your drink – vodka based or otherwise – into the concert and immerse yourself in the spine-tingling sounds that gave musical voice to the films in catchy title sequences and haunting songs performed here by star vocalists Alison Jiear and Matthew Ford. Tickets from £21 (including booking fee)

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 15 Saturday 7 January, 3pm A Viennese Celebration Suppé Overture: Light Cavalry Josef Strauss Ohne Sorgen Josef Strauss Austrian Village Swallows Waltz E. Strauss Mit Dampf Polka Schnell Josef Strauss Feuerfest Polka Lehár Gold and Silver Waltz J. Strauss II Gypsy Baron March J. Strauss II On the Beautiful Blue Danube: Waltz J. Strauss II Radetzky March J. Strauss II Pizzicato Polka Stephen Bell conductor • Joshua Ellicott tenor A VIENNESE CELEBRATION The Hallé’s annual New Year celebration features the most romantic waltzes, thrilling polkas and exciting marches. Some beautiful Viennese songs performed by the magnificent Joshua Ellicott guarantee you delightful memories to treasure for the rest of the year. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

Thursday 12 January, 7.30pm Mozart Symphony No.41, ‘Jupiter’ 29' Julian Anderson ‘In Lieblicher Bläue’ poem for violin and orchestra 22' Schumann Symphony No.4 30' Markus Stenz conductor • Carolin Widmann violin Markus Stenz conducts two landmarks in the history of the symphony. Much of Schumann’s Fourth Symphony is characterised by intense rhythmical drive, though its slow movement is a tender musical portrait of Schumann’s wife Clara. Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ Symphony is the summation of its composer’s symphonic art. It strikes a perfect balance between emotion and intellect and its finale is simply astonishing in its inventiveness. The outstanding German violinist Carolin Widmann is soloist in Julian Anderson’s ‘In Lieblicher Bläue’ (In Lovely Blue), a work that was specially written for her. Inspired by a Friedrich Hölderlin poem, this attractive and highly theatrical piece places some extremely novel technical demands on the violinist!

THE ABRAHAM MOSS MEMORIAL MOSS CONCERT THE ABRAHAM Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) MOZART • ANDERSON •SCHUMANN • ANDERSON MOZART

16 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Wednesday 18 January, 2.15pm Thursday 19 January, 7.30pm Sunday 22 January, 7.30pm

Prokofiev Symphony No.1, ‘Classical’ 15’ TCHAIKOVSKY • PROKOFIEV Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme 18’ Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 46’ Louis Langrée conductor • Jian Wang cello Hallé favourite Louis Langrée conducts an irresistible all-Russian programme. In the first half we hear two works that honour the composers of the eighteenth century. Prokofiev’s boisterous ‘Classical’ Symphony is a warm and humorous tribute to Haydn, though it also has its own distinctive wit and charm. The superlative Jian Wang also makes a return to Manchester where last season he was a huge hit with Hallé audiences. He is soloist in Tchaikovsky’s elegant Rococo Variations , an homage to Mozart – a figure Tchaikovsky regarded as a ‘musical god’. More Tchaikovsky in the second half in the form of the composer’s gripping Fourth Symphony. With its recurring fate motif, it is one of music’s most dramatic and satisfying journeys with a profusion of great melodies along the way. Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

Saturday 28 January, 7.30pm Movie Classics Fantasia Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Out Of Africa Mozart Clarinet Concerto (slow movement) Platoon Barber Adagio for Strings MOVIE CLASSICS LA Confidential Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides Four Weddings And A Funeral Handel The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Seven Years In Tibet Debussy Clair de Lune Grand Budapest Hotel J. Strauss II Roses from the South: Waltz The King’s Speech Beethoven Symphony No.7 (2nd movement) Stephen Bell conductor • Petroc Trelawny presenter BBC presenter Petroc Trelawny makes a welcome return to the Hallé for a night of Movie Classics. Behind the on screen action, music plays a crucial role in bringing the story to life. This concert captures some of the most memorable moments. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 17 A new deal if you are 30 or under Under 30s can now save 15% off many of the Hallé’s prices. And, if you’re in full time education you can hear our music for as little as £5 – including fees! There are lots of ways to save money on Hallé concerts, visit www.halle.co.uk/moneysaver s for details.

Thursday 9 February, 7.30pm Sibelius The Oceanides 11' Poulenc Concerto for organ, strings and timpani 23' Dvoˇrák Legends: selection 20' Janáˇcek Taras Bulba: Rhapsody for Orchestra 23' Cristian Mˇacelaru conductor • Jonathan Scott organ In the first concert during a two-week spell with the Hallé, the outstanding Cristian Mˇacelaru conducts an intriguing programme of works, three of which were inspired by mythology and ˇ RÁK • SIBELIUS legend. Sibelius’s The Oceanides is one of the most vivid and atmospheric musical seascapes ever written, while Dvoˇrák’s Legends are charmingly reflective counterparts to the Czech composer’s Slavonic Dances. Janáˇcek’s great Taras Bulba is based on Gogol’s account of a legendary Cossack ˇ CEK • DVO hero. It builds to a magnificent climax, organ and brass combining to stunning effect. Jonathan Scott and The Bridgewater Hall organ also star in the first half with Poulenc’s hauntingly beautiful

JANÁ concerto, a work its composer described as his ‘bestseller’. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

18 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Saturday 11 February, 7.30pm From Broadway, with love ...

The programme includes: FROM BROADWAY, WITH LOVE ... Every Time We Say Goodbye from The Seven Lively Arts Porter Something’s Coming from West Side Story Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim It Was A Very Good Year Drake Sun and Moon from Miss Saigon Claude-Michel Schönberg/Alain Boublil All I Ask Of You from The Phantom Of The Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber Takin’ A Chance On Love from Cabin In The Sky Duke/Latouche Moon River from Breakfast At Tiffany’s Mancini Larry Blank conductor • Matthew Ford and Emma Williams vocalists Larry Blank’s soaring arrangements of Broadway musicals are in demand all over the world. As music director, conductor and arranger, he works his musical magic to bring Broadway to The Bridgewater Hall. He is joined by tonight’s star vocalists Matthew Ford and Emma Williams in a programme packed with American musical classics with a definite touch of romance. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

Wednesday 22 February, 2.15pm Thursday 23 February, 7.30pm Sunday 26 February, 7.30pm PROKOFIEV • MOZART • FAURÉ Fauré Dolly Suite 17’ Mozart Piano Concerto No.9, ‘Jeunehomme’ 32’ Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: excerpts 30’ Cristian Mˇacelaru conductor • Heejae Kim piano Christian Mˇacelaru forms a dream team with Heejae Kim, winner of the prestigious Terence Judd-Hallé Orchestra Prize at the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition. She performs Mozart’s ‘Jeunehomme’ concerto, a work the legendary pianist Alfred Brendel described as ‘one of the greatest wonders of the world’. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet is an inspired take on the plight of The Bard’s ‘star-crossed lovers’. It simply oozes great melodies and extraordinary orchestral textures. Fauré’s charming Dolly Suite was originally a series of musical gifts for the young daughter of the composer’s mistress. Its delightful Berceuse was used as the signature tune to the long-running BBC radio programme Listen with Mother . Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

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20 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL With the help of Gerard McBurney’s ingenious presentation we will look ‘Beyond the Score’ at the ‘Enigma’ Variations, one of the three life-changing pieces of music which form the nucleus of our short festival devoted to Edward Elgar. The first great composer of England’s modern era was into his forties before recognition came to him with the triumph of this remarkable work. Pictures and affectionate tributes to his loyal friends are woven round his underlying theme expressing, as Elgar was to write later, ‘the loneliness of the artist’. Elgar poured his ‘heart’s blood’ of personal faith and doubt into the score of ‘The Dream of Gerontius’, still to this day seen as the greatest large-scale English choral work of all. Elgar’s dedication to the Hallé’s Chief Conductor Hans Richter, ‘true artist and true friend’, implies a wealth of gratitude for the emergence, finally, of his First Symphony.

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≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 21 Thursday 9 March, 7.30pm Elgar Symphony No.1 53' Overture: Froissart 14' Grania and Diarmid: Incidental Music, Funeral March and ‘There are Seven’ 12' Pomp and Circumstance March No.3 9' Sir Mark Elder conductor • Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano In this fascinating three-part Elgar festival, master Elgarian Sir Mark explores different aspects of the composer’s complex musical personality. In December 1908 the Hallé gave the world premiere of Elgar’s First Symphony and ever since then this great work has retained a special place in the orchestra’s repertoire and affections. Inspired by the 14th-century Chronicles of Froissart , Elgar’s Overture was his first large-scale orchestral work, an elegant foretaste of the more expansive masterpieces to come. We also hear incidental music Elgar composed for Grania and Diarmid – a play by George Moore and W.B. Yeats based on a great heroic Irish legend – and the fiery and dramatic Pomp and Circumstance March No.3 . Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) ELGAR FESTIVAL ELGAR

‘ There is no programme beyond a wide experience of human life with a great charity (love) and a massive hope in the future.’ Elgar on his First Symphony

22 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Saturday 11 March, 7pm Beyond the Score ®: Elgar’s Enigma Variations Sir Mark Elder conductor • Gerard McBurney presenter One evening Elgar sat down at his piano to improvise. ‘That’s a good tune’ said his wife Alice, ‘what is it?’ ‘Nothing yet’, replied Elgar, ‘but something might be made of it’. Elgar then continued improvising, imagining what his various friends would do with the tune. The affectionate and vivid series of musical sketches that resulted, the ‘Enigma’ Variations, was to change their lives. Devised by former Hallé artistic advisor Gerard McBurney, ‘Beyond the Score’ is an accessible and entertaining way of learning more about Elgar’s masterpiece. Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé will be on stage throughout providing musical examples, complemented by actors playing Elgar’s friends and loved-ones and film on the Hallé big screen. After the interval, Sir Mark and the orchestra give a complete performance of the work. The evening will give a fascinating insight into Elgar: the man himself, his wife and friends, his social milieu and of course, his great music. ELGAR FESTIVAL Tickets from £13 (including booking fee) Beyond the Score® is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gerard McBurney, Creative Director, Beyond the Score® • Martha Gilmer, Executive Producer, Beyond the Score®

Sunday 12 March, 6.30pm Elgar The Dream of Gerontius 94' (there will be no interval) Sir Mark Elder conductor David Butt Philip tenor Sasha Cooke mezzo-soprano Iain Paterson bass-baritone Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir A setting of a poem by John Henry Newman, The Dream of Gerontius tells the story of a soul’s journey through death into purgatory with the promise of a final re-awakening to glory. Elgar’s remarkable score reflects an eclectic range of influences: Wagner, Verdi, Anglican and Catholic liturgical music. In its ‘Demons’ Chorus’ there are even echoes of the Victorian music-hall. Yet Elgar imposed on the work an extraordinary dramatic and musical unity that is unsurpassed in his choral output. Iain Paterson returns following his appearance in Das Rheingold earlier in the season, to sing the dual roles of the Priest and The Angel of the Agony; while two rising vocal stars, David Butt Philip and Sasha Cooke are Gerontius and The Angel respectively. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 23 Saturday 18 March, 7.30pm Oscars for Orchestra The programme includes music from: Ben-Hur; Robin Hood ; Born Free ; E.T. ; Aladdin; Spectre; The Hateful Eight ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ; The King and I and Henry V Stephen Bell conductor Tonight the real star of the movie world gets its chance to shine on The Bridgewater Hall stage as we showcase the role of the orchestra in Oscar-winning films. It is the least temperamental of bit-part players, the most versatile – whether required to adopt the role of handsome hero or heart-broken heroine – the least egotistical and the most indispensible. No-one deserves an Oscar more than the orchestra. Roll out the red carpet! Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) OSCARS FOR ORCHESTRA FOR OSCARS

Wednesday 22 March, 2.15pm Thursday 23 March, 7.30pm Sunday 26 March, 7.30pm Opening work to be confirmed Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 34’ Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite (1945) 33’ Lahav Shani conductor • Sofya Gulyak piano Prodigiously gifted young Israeli conductor Lahav Shani makes his Hallé debut alongside a Hallé favourite, Sofya Gulyak. She is soloist in Rachmaninov’s evocative Second Piano Concerto. It opens with bell-like tolling that heralds a succession of sweeping and very Russian melodies, the piano writing breathtakingly virtuosic throughout. Shani then conducts Stravinsky’s enchanting and equally melodious Firebird Suite. This musical version of a Russian fairy tale begins in darkness and ends in great triumph and jubilation.

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≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 25 Thursday 30 March, 7.30pm Revueltas Sensemayá 8’ Copland El Salón México 12' Gershwin Piano Concerto 31’ Falla The Three Cornered Hat (complete ballet) 30' Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor • Kathryn Stott piano A fascinating meeting of old world and new as Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts works from his native Mexico, the United States and from Spain. Our first dip into the melting-pot of the Americas brings the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas evoking Afro-Caribbean ritual in Sensemayá . His highly original orchestral palette had impressed Copland, whose ‘El Salón México’ arose from his fascination with the country, its culture and its sound-world during the 1930s. Kathryn Stott makes a welcome return to the Hallé with Gershwin’s Piano Concerto. Written in the wake of Rhapsody in Blue, it embraces classical and jazz styles with sophisticated ease. Of all the great ballets to come out of Diaghilev’s stable, Falla’s masterly score to The Three Cornered Hat is one of the most colourful. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) FALLA • REVUELTAS • COPLAND GERSHWIN • REVUELTAS FALLA

Thursday 20 April, 7.30pm Berlioz Overture: Rob Roy 12' Huw Watkins Symphony (world premiere) 20' Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 48' Sir Mark Elder conductor • Sunwook Kim piano Sunwook Kim is a remarkable artist who has recorded both Brahms Piano Concertos with Sir Mark and the Hallé. Tonight he performs the majestic Second Concerto, a work conceived on a grand symphonic scale and an absolute tour de force of the piano repertoire. Its slow movement is one of the most ravishing ever written. The concert also features the world premiere of a symphony by a leading light of today’s British music scene, Huw Watkins, as well as the highly attractive overture Berlioz composed following Walter Scott’s legend of ‘The Scottish Robin Hood’, Rob Roy. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) BRAHMS •WATKINS • BERLIOZ •WATKINS BRAHMS

26 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Saturday 22 April, 7.30pm Giants of Jazz featuring Ronnie Scott’s Trio George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag Billy Mayerl Marigold Jelly Roll Morton King Porter Stomp GIANTS OF JAZZ Duke Ellington Caravan Thelonius Monk ’Round Midnight George Shearing Lullaby of Birdland Dave Brubeck Take Five Oscar Peterson March Past Chick Corea Spain Roderick Dunk conductor • James Pearson piano • Ronnie Scott’s Trio Pianist James Pearson, Artistic Director of the world famous Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, joins the Hallé and conductor Roderick Dunk for a toe-tapping tribute to ‘100 Years of Jazz Piano Greats’. James will be joined by the rest of the Ronnie Scott’s Trio for this swinging and exciting collaboration. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

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Sunday 30 April, 7.30pm ELGAR • TCHAIKOVSKY • WEBER Elgar Introduction and Allegro for Strings 15’ Weber Clarinet Concerto No.2 20’ Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 47’ Sir Mark Elder conductor • Julian Bliss clarinet Sir Mark conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, a work beloved of audiences around the globe. Like the same composer’s Fourth Symphony it features a recurrent fate motif and is a passage from despondency to joy. The symphony contains a heart-rending slow movement, a charming waltz and a truly pot-boiling finale. Though still relatively young, clarinettist Julian Bliss has been described as ‘a consummate master of his instrument’. Weber’s Second Concerto is the perfect vehicle to convey the wit, pose and vivacity of his playing. The inspiration for Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro was a folk tune he heard when on holiday in Wales. Elgar’s deep understanding of the string orchestra is evident throughout this wonderful work. Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 27 Thursday 4 May, 7.30pm Purcell Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary 15' Ryan Wigglesworth Locke’s Theatre (2013) 17' Bruckner Symphony No.9 60' Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Hallé Choir The Ninth Symphony of the supreme musical architect Anton Bruckner remained unfinished at his death. Nevertheless, it is a supremely satisfying experience, a great cathedral in sound that never fails to impress and inspire. Its opening movement is solemn and mysterious and builds to a series of majestic climaxes, heavenly trumpets sounding out in glory. The scherzo is enigmatic, even unsettling, while the symphony’s concluding slow movement is some of the most poignant music ever composed. Before this is Ryan Wigglesworth’s own Locke’s Theatre , an adaptation of the music of the great English dramatic composer Matthew Locke (1621-1677). Locke influenced Purcell, whose majestic Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary open the concert. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) BRUCKNER • WIGGLESWORTH • PURCELL • WIGGLESWORTH BRUCKNER

Saturday 13 May, 7.30pm Finlandia Sibelius Karelia Suite Grieg Piano Concerto Sibelius Valse Triste Grieg Peer Gynt Suite Sibelius Finlandia Stephen Bell conductor • Joseph Moog piano Sibelius and Grieg, the two giants of Scandinavian music, have between them written some of the world’s most popular pieces. Grieg’s Piano Concerto (one of the world’s finest) and Peer Gynt FINLANDIA Suite (including the beautiful ‘Morning’ and frenetic ‘Hall of the Mountain King’) have featured in countless film and television productions. Sibelius’s work is no less admired. The Hallé gave the UK premiere of his Second Symphony, and the Orchestra’s previous performances of the Karelia Suite , and Finlandia have been widely acclaimed. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee)

28 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Wednesday 17 May, 2.15pm Thursday 18 May, 7.30pm Sunday 21 May, 7.30pm DVO Smetana Má Vlast: Vltava 12’ RÁK • CHOPIN • SMETANA Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 30’ ˇ Dvoˇrák Symphony No.6 40’ James Feddeck conductor • Andrew Tyson piano In this attractive Slavic-themed programme, Andrew Tyson makes a welcome return to the Hallé in Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. Technically-taxing and richly melodic, it was inspired by the Polish composer’s love for two women. The concerts open with Smetana’s magnificent musical depiction of the River Vltava – for Smetana a symbol of the very lifeblood of the emerging Czech nation. The work vividly charts the course of the river from its source high in the hills to the point when it flows in splendour beneath Prague’s Charles Bridge. Smetana regarded his compatriot Dvoˇrák as his ‘excellent rival’. The hugely gifted James Feddeck conducts the composer’s ebullient Sixth Symphony, packed with great melodies and charateristic delights of the greatest Czech symphonist. Tickets from £13 (including booking fee)

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≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 29 Sunday 4 June, 6.30pm The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic Schoenberg Gurrelieder 99' Sir Mark Elder conductor Waldermar Brandon Jovanovich tenor Tove Emily Magee soprano Wood Dove Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Klaus the Fool Graham Clark tenor Bauer Johan Reuter bass Speaker Sir Thomas Allen The season’s theme of mythology and legend reaches the grandest conclusion possible with a rare performance of Schoenberg’s gigantic Gurrelieder. Featuring an all-star vocal lineup, massive choral forces and the combined resources of the Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic, it promises to be an evening never to be forgotten. The work is a setting of poetry by Jens Peter Jacobsen based on an ancient Danish saga, a tale of illicit love, jealousy and murder set at the castle of Gurre in North Zealand. Some think of Schoenberg as arid and theoretical, but in Gurrelieder nothing could be further from the truth. The musical language is richly Romantic and exquisitely lyrical throughout. At its premiere in 1913 the audience was wildly enthusiastic, not least at its magnificent closing ‘Hymn to the Sun’. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fee) SCHOENBERG GURRELIEDER SCHOENBERG ‘ This musical collaboration, packing The Bridgewater Hall ... was a Manchester event like no other, hotly anticipated, and, in the event, riveting.’ The Independent on the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic’s Mahler collaboration

30 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 31 ≥ YOUTH ENSEMBLES The Hallé’s Youth Ensembles will perform two concerts in the 2016–17 season. For more information and full details please visit www.halle.co.uk .

Saturday 17 December, 7.30pm Hallé Youth Orchestra The Hallé Youth Orchestra take to The Bridgewater Hall stage with their new Director, Jonathon Heyward for an evening of wonderful music.

Sunday 26 March, 3pm Hallé Youth Orchestra, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Youth Training Choir and Hallé Children’s Choir Make Mother’s Day really special and join the joyously-gifted members of all the Hallé’s Youth Ensembles as they present a matinee of music which will showcase their talent.

THE HALLÉ AND THE BBC

Some of the Hallé’s concerts in the 2016–17 season will feature on Radio 3. This is part of the ongoing partnership between the Hallé and the UK’s leading cultural broadcaster. For times and dates of the broadcasts visit www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

PRE-CONCERT EVENTS There are pre-concert events prior to some of our concerts. These are normally held in the auditorium and are free to concert ticket holders. For full details visit www.halle.co.uk

32 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL WHEN TO BOOK Public booking opens on Monday 9 May 2016. HOW TO BOOK www.halle.co.uk 0161 907 9000 In person or by post at the Box Office, The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WS Mastercard, Visa, Maestro and Delta are all welcome.

BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS (at April 2016) Monday to Saturday 10am–6pm Sunday (concert nights only) 12pm–6pm. Counter service until 8pm on concert nights Closed on non-concert Sundays.

Please note that family tickets can now be booked online as well as through the Box Office.

HALLÉ FIXED SUBSCRIPTIONS • Subscriptions save you money • Subscribing protects you against possible price increases later in the season • You can choose the seats that best suit you, and we’ll keep them for you for future seasons • Guaranteed seats for our sold out concerts • You receive priority information about future seasons • Everything is done before the season starts – there’s nothing more to think about – just look forward to your concerts • You can return or swap your tickets if you can’t attend (credit only, Bridgewater Hall fees apply) • You don’t pay the booking fee Full details and prices are on the following pages.

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CHOIR SEATS Choir seats are available for most concerts where the Choir is not performing. Choir seats or seats without an adequate view are not available when the Hallé big screen is in place. Please note that we do not recommend the Choir seats for concerts involving singers. Contact the Box Office for full details.

BOOKING FEES The Bridgewater Hall applies a booking fee of £2 per ticket to telephone and online transactions. Tickets bought in person at the Box Office using a debit card or credit card are subject to a 2% booking fee. No fee applies to tickets bought in person and paid for by cash or cheque or purchased as part of a fixed or personal subscription.

34 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES (including booking fees, see page 34) A B C D E F Thursday Series , Collection and 7 January £41 £36 £31 £26 £20.50 £13.50 Opus One concerts £41 £36 £31 £25.50 £19 £13 Pops concerts £43 £38 £29 £21 £13.50 Christmas concerts £43 £38 £29 £21 Beyond The Score £37 £31 £26 £16 £13 Christmas Family Concert Adult £24, Child £15 (aged 17 and under), Family Ticket (4 people minimum 1 child) £62 The Snowman Adult £24, Child (aged 17 and under) £16, Family Ticket (4 people minimum 1 child) £64

FIXED SUBSCRIPTION TICKET PRICES (Prices are per person) A B C D E F Thursday Series (9 CONCERTS) £245.70 £214.20 £179.55 £151.20 £116.55 £72.45 Disabled person’s subscription £175.50 £153 £128.25 £108 £83.25 £51.75 Thursday Series plus Collection (13 CONCERTS) £354.90 £309.40 £259.35 £218.40 £168.35 £104.65 Disabled person’s subscription £253.50 £221 £185.25 £156 £120.25 £74.75

Opus One Concerts (9 CONCERTS) Individuals and groups of up to 9 people £298.35 £260.10 £221.85 £179.82 £130.05 £84.15 Groups of 10 to 49 people £263.25 £229.50 £195.75 £158.67 £114.75 £74.25 Groups of 50+ people £245.70 £214.20 £182.70 £148.05 £107.10 £69.30 Disabled person’s subscription £175.50 £153 £130.50 £105.75 £76.50 £49.50

Pops concerts (8 CONCERTS) £262.40 £230.40 £172.80 £121.60 £73.60 Disabled person’s subscription £164 £144 £108 £76 £46

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 35 CONCESSIONS AND DISCOUNTS CLAIMANTS AND OVER 60S Claimants can purchase tickets at 10% off Experiencing the Hallé’s anywhere in the auditorium, on production of appropriate identification. From two Mondays prior concerts has never been to the performance, over 60s may purchase any remaining tickets and get a 20% discount. easier, or better value. HALLÉ DAY TICKETS UNDER 30s * A limited number of tickets will be available for each concert on the day, priced at £12 (including Anyone aged 30 or under can now save 15% off booking fees). They can be booked in person, by many of the Hallé’s prices. The world’s greatest phone or online. (Day tickets are not available music is only a few clicks away and remember for The Snowman, Family or Youth Ensemble to take advantage of our great money-saving performances.) discounts. Visit www.halle.co.uk/moneysavers for full details. GROUP DISCOUNTS Discounts of up to 25% are available, depending £3 STUDENT TICKETS * on the size of your group. Call The Bridgewater For just £3 (£5 including booking fee, see page Hall’s Group Bookings Department directly on 34) students in full-time education can hear the 0161 907 9010. Hallé perform extraordinary music in the fantastic Groups of 10–29 save 10% surroundings of The Bridgewater Hall. Groups of 30–49 save 15% These tickets are available in the stalls for the Groups of 50+ save 25% Hallé’s Thursday Series, Collection and Opus One concerts. Additional events may be added HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF JOINING A throughout the year so check for full details at HALLÉ GROUP? www.halle.co.uk or follow us on Twitter and Our Opus One concerts attract groups from all over Facebook. the North West, and some from even further afield. If you would like to find out more about joining a Hallé group, either as a subscriber or perhaps to * This offer is subject to availability. You may be take a spare seat on a coach, please contact the asked to show appropriate identification. Group Bookings Department on 0161 907 9010 or email [email protected]

36 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL PERSONAL FLEXIBLE SUBSCRIPTIONS DISABLED PATRONS Receive discounts on the full ticket price Disabled patrons save 50% on full price tickets, when you book for five or more concerts from and, if a carer is required, the carer comes free. The The Bridgewater Hall’s 2016–2017 classical Bridgewater Hall is fully accessible and welcomes seasons – all Hallé concerts are included except disabled patrons. Please contact the Box Office on The Snowman, Family and Youth Ensemble 0161 907 9000 to book (disabled concessions are performances. not available online) and let us know your access Choose 5 or more concerts and save 15% requirements so we can, where possible, seat you Choose 16 or more concerts and save 25% appropriately. Information on disabled parking can be found on page 38. TOO MUCH TO PAY IN ONE GO? Please visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk for full You can pay for your tickets by direct debit in five information or contact the Box Office. monthly instalments from 1 September 2016 when you spend £250 or more. Completed direct debit mandates must be received by Friday 22 July 2016. Information is available in (Please note the Box Office cannot accept direct debits on online bookings.) large print. REFUNDS/TICKET EXCHANGE Tickets cannot be refunded, but may be exchanged subject to The Bridgewater Hall’s terms and conditions. If you are unable to attend a concert, PROGRAMME CHANGES, PRICES and The Bridgewater Hall will credit your account with CHILDREN the cost of your tickets, provided they are physically All artists and programmes are correct at the time returned to the Box Office at least three working of going to press, but may change in the event of days before the concert date. This credit amount unforeseen circumstances. (minus a return fee of £2.20 per ticket) can then Keep up to date at www.halle.co.uk be used to purchase tickets for another concert of All prices and tickets including discounts and your choice. concessions, are subject to availability. Prices may change and you may only use one discount per ticket. For licensing reasons, everyone, including babes in arms where appropriate, is required to have a ticket. Details are available from the Box Office and at www.halle.co.uk. Other than for specific family concerts, we recommend that younger members of our audiences be at least of primary school age.

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 37 THE BRIDGEWATER HALL PARKING The Bridgewater Hall is open from 11am to 3.30pm A limited number of guaranteed spaces are Monday to Friday, from 12 noon for weekend available to patrons at RCP Park Avenue car park matinee concerts and from 5pm on all concert for £6. Spaces must be booked with the Box Office nights. Closing times vary and depend on the or online at least a week before the concert and are duration of concerts. valid from 5.30pm for evening concerts and 12 noon for matinees on the date indicated. EATING AND DRINKING AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Patrons can also validate their NCP parking ticket at the Hall for Manchester Central Car Park The Stalls Café Bar is open Monday to Friday from (formerly G-Mex), Great Northern Phase 1 & 2 and 11am to 2.30pm (last orders), and from 5.30pm Oxford Street for a discounted rate. Pay at the NCP on concert nights. Main courses are typically ticket machine before returning to your car, or by from £10.95 and pre-performance dining must be card at the exit barrier. reserved through the Box Office. NCP Manchester Central Car Park offers an evening The Charles Hallé Restaurant is open from 5.30pm rate for £6 (valid from 6pm to 11.59pm). Tickets do on concert nights and tables must be reserved not need to be validated at the Hall for this offer. No through the Box Office. Enjoy the best value for further discounts apply to this offer. money, quality cuisine in Manchester, with a fixed- price menu du jour: two courses are £21.95 and For full details, check www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk or three courses £27.50, inclusive of coffee and petits contact the Box Office on 0161 907 9000. fours. DISABLED PARKING Reserve tables through the Box Office on 0161 907 There are a limited number of complimentary 9000 or online at www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk. disabled parking spaces for blue badge holders at Please note a £5 per person deposit is required; this NCP Manchester Central, allocated on a first-come- is non-refundable in the event of cancellation with first-served basis. Spaces are free of charge but a less than three days’ notice. ticket must be booked through the Box Office with PRE-CONCERT AND INTERVAL DRINKS your concert tickets. Bars are located on all four levels, serving drinks PLEASE NOTE before the concert and during the interval. Coffee is Manchester is experiencing some road works and served in the Stalls and Circle bars. We recommend tram disruption during the 2016–17 season and we that you pre-order your interval drinks (this service recommend that our customers allow a little extra is available from all bars). time for their journey. THE BRIDGEWATER HALL SHOP Open Monday to Friday from 11am to 3.30pm and from 6pm on concert nights.

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Thursday 6 October, 7.30pm Thursday 12 January, 7.30pm Verdi Macbeth: scenes Mozart Symphony No.41, ‘Jupiter’ Beethoven Symphony No.9, ‘Choral’ Julian Anderson Violin Concerto, Sir Mark Elder conductor ‘In Lieblicher Bläue’ Soloists Schumann Symphony No.4 Hallé Choir Markus Stenz conductor Carolin Widmann violin Thursday 27 October, 7.30pm Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Thursday 9 February, 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Sibelius The Oceanides Tippett A Child of Our Time Poulenc Concerto for organ, strings and timpani Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Dvoˇrák Legends: selection Soloists Janáˇcek Taras Bulba: Rhapsody for Orchestra Hallé Choir Cristian Mˇacelaru conductor Jonathan Scott organ Thursday 10 November, 7.30pm Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) * Thursday 9 March, 7.30pm Bruch Violin Concerto No.2 Elgar Festival Janáˇcek Jealousy Elgar Symphony No.1 Vaughan Williams Symphony No.6 Elgar Overture: Froissart Sir Mark Elder conductor Elgar Grania and Diarmid: Incidental Music, Jonathon Heyward conductor * Funeral March and ‘There are Seven’ James Ehnes violin Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.3 Sir Mark Elder conductor Madeleine Shaw mezzo-soprano

40 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL ≥ COLLECTION

Thursday 30 March, 7.30pm Sunday 27 November, 5pm Revueltas Sensemayá Wagner Das Rheingold Copland El Salón México Sir Mark Elder conductor • Soloists Gershwin Piano Concerto Falla The Three Cornered Hat (complete ballet) Saturday 3 December, 7.30pm Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor Handel Messiah Kathryn Stott piano Christian Curnyn conductor Soloists • Hallé Choir Thursday 20 April, 7.30pm Berlioz Overture: Rob Roy Sunday 12 March, 6.30pm Huw Watkins Symphony (world premiere) Elgar Festival Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Sir Mark Elder conductor Sir Mark Elder conductor Sunwook Kim piano Soloists • Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir

Thursday 4 May, 7.30pm Sunday 4 June, 6.30pm Purcell Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary The Hallé and BBC Philharmonic Ryan Wigglesworth Locke’s Theatre (2013) Bruckner Symphony No.9 Schoenberg Gurrelieder Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Sir Mark Elder conductor • Soloists Hallé Choir

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 41 ≥ POPS ≥ OPUS ONE CONCERTS

Saturday 1 October, 7.30pm Thursday 22 September, 7.30pm Classical Extravaganza Sunday 25 September, 7.30pm Stephen Bell conductor Wednesday 28 September, 2.15pm Saturday 29 October, 7.30pm Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Hamlet The Music of Star Wars Episodes I–VII Liszt Piano Concerto No.1 Stephen Bell conductor • Tom Redmond presenter Beethoven Symphony No.6, ‘Pastoral’ Hallé Youth Choir Sir Mark Elder conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano Thursday 1 December, 7.30pm Classical Greats Stephen Bell conductor • Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Wednesday 19 October, 2.15pm Thursday 20 October, 7.30pm Saturday 28 January, 7.30pm Sunday 23 October, 7.30pm Movie Classics Mussorgsky orch. Rimsky-Korsakov Night on the Stephen Bell conductor • Petroc Trelawny presenter Bare Mountain Saturday 11 February, 7.30pm Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto From Broadway, with love … Bartók Hungarian Sketches Larry Blank conductor Borodin Symphony No.2 Matthew Ford and Emma Williams vocalists Gergely Madaras conductor Katherine Baker flute Saturday 18 March, 7.30pm Marie Leenhardt harp Oscars for Orchestra Stephen Bell conductor Wednesday 16 November, 2.15pm Saturday 22 April, 7.30pm Thursday 17 November, 7.30pm Giants of Jazz featuring Ronnie Scott’s Trio Sunday 20 November, 7.30pm Roderick Dunk conductor • James Pearson piano Wagner The Flying Dutchman: Overture Ronnie Scott’s Trio Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5, ‘Emperor’ Saturday 13 May, 7.30pm Sibelius Symphony No.2 Finlandia Andrew Manze conductor Stephen Bell conductor • Joseph Moog piano Martin Helmchen piano

42 – ≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL Wednesday 7 December, 2.15pm Wednesday 22 March, 2.15pm Thursday 8 December, 7.30pm Thursday 23 March, 7.30pm Sunday 11 December, 7.30pm Sunday 26 March, 7.30pm Ravel Mother Goose Suite Opening work to be confirmed Haydn Symphony No.88 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 Brahms Violin Concerto Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite (1945) Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Lahav Shani conductor Viviane Hagner violin Sofya Gulyak piano

Wednesday 18 January, 2.15pm Wednesday 26 April, 2.15pm Thursday 19 January, 7.30pm Thursday 27 April, 7.30pm Sunday 22 January, 7.30pm Sunday 30 April, 7.30pm Prokofiev Symphony No.1, ‘Classical’ Elgar Introduction and Allegro for Strings Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme Weber Clarinet Concerto No.2 Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Louis Langrée conductor Sir Mark Elder conductor Jian Wang cello Julian Bliss clarinet

Wednesday 22 February, 2.15pm Wednesday 17 May, 2.15pm Thursday 23 February, 7.30pm Thursday 18 May, 7.30pm Sunday 26 February, 7.30pm Sunday 21 May, 7.30pm Fauré Dolly Suite Smetana Má Vlast: Vltava Mozart Piano Concerto No.9, ‘Jeunehomme’ Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: excerpts Dvoˇrák Symphony No.6 Cristian Mˇacelaru conductor James Feddeck conductor Heejae Kim piano Andrew Tyson piano

≥ 2016–17 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL – 43 ≥ ST PETER’S Hallé St Peter’s sits in the heart of Ancoats and provides rehearsal and recording space for the Orchestra, Choir and other Hallé Ensembles, as well as space for our education projects and the local community. Hallé St Peter’s is the perfect venue for receptions, product launches and exhibitions through to intimate performances, rehearsals and workshops and is licensed for the celebration of weddings. The Hallé work with carefully selected, high quality suppliers to deliver everything from catering and lighting through to linen and flowers. If you are interested in finding out more about hiring Hallé St Peter’s contact [email protected]

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The Hallé Concerts Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of Arts Council England, Manchester City Council and the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities. Northern Legends