≥ 2017/18 SEASON CONCERTS AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER The years since the falling of the Iron Curtain have perhaps increased the fascination with Russian culture where, as current events continue to demonstrate, nothing is quite what it seems. This is very much a Russian season, full of contrasts and contradictions!

We begin with Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’, the great ballet that inspired 20th-century Russian music and much else, and we visit great works by earlier Russian masters, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, as well as three of Rachmaninov’s most deservedly popular works: the ‘Paganini Rhapsody’, the Third Piano Concerto and the Second Symphony.

Since I heard the London premiere of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony in the early 1960s, almost 30 years after it was completed, suppressed, and lost, the capacity of this composer’s largest and most powerful symphonies to speak to us about our modern age has continued to live with me, and I find this music seems to have more and more resonance with the public as the years go by. This season, we will perform three symphonies forged in the heat of controversy and against a background of barely-credible personal danger for Shostakovich.

4 Gerard McBurney’s brilliant ‘Beyond the Score’ concept, with the help of actors and film, illuminates the extraordinary story of the contentious Fourth symphony. We will later hear the Fifth and the Eighth symphonies, each in a context intended to highlight both the personal and wider cultural associations behind these two great works.

Throughout the season, great music and great performances are on offer, before we close with one of Wagner’s greatest masterpieces of music-drama. Some of our finest instrumental soloists return in concertos by Brahms, Beethoven, Elgar and Mendelssohn, and there will be new names and talents, soloists and conductors, to appreciate as always. The Hallé Choir sings Verdi, Handel, Mendelssohn and John Adams and Ryan Wigglesworth’s new orchestral work receives its Manchester premiere. At long last, we bring our acclaimed ‘Ring’ cycle to a climax with Wagner’s hero Siegfried braving the flames to awaken Brünnhilde. I can’t wait!

Sir Mark Elder

≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 5 CONTENTS The Hallé CONTINUES After so many decades to prove itself a

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6 The Hallé CONTINUES After so many decades ‘ to prove itself a vital force. THE SUNDAY TIMES ’

≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 7 TCHAIKOVSKY’S CLASSICAL ‘PATHÉTIQUE’ EXTRAVAGANZA

Thursday 14 September 2017, 7.30pm Saturday 23 September 2017, 7.30pm Sunday 17 September 2017, 7.30pm Wednesday 20 September 2017, 2.15pm Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Bernstein Overture: West Side Story Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night 8' Fauré Pavane Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1 32' Bizet March of the Toreadors Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’ 44' Elgar Chanson de Matin Walton Crown Imperial Pablo González conductor • Barry Douglas piano Haydn Trumpet Concerto Rossini Overture: The Thieving Magpie In 1986 Barry Douglas launched his stellar career by winning the Gold Medal Grainger Londonderry Air at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. Who better Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee to perform Tchaikovsky’s beloved First Concerto than the great Ulsterman Elgar Nimrod from the ‘Enigma’ Variations himself? Tchaikovsky’s epic symphonic swansong forms the second half of Borodin Polovtsian Dances the programme. A piece of great poignancy and mystery, it begins in dark shadows, emerges into brilliant light and then descends back into gloom – Stephen Bell conductor • Gareth Small trumpet a quite remarkable and moving musical journey. Pablo González, making his third visit to the Hallé, opens this enticing all-Russian programme with Trumpets herald the start of the Hallé’s Pops concerts with Copland’s Fanfare, Rimsky-Korsakov’s resplendent, richly melodic May Night Overture. Haydn’s famous concerto and a host of the world’s best-loved classics.

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8 THE FIREBIRD

Thursday 5 October 2017, 7.30pm

Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune 10' Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 25' Stravinsky The Firebird (1910) 48' Under 30s can save 15% off many of Sir Mark Elder conductor • Alexander Gavrylyuk piano the Hallé’s prices. If you’re in full-time Sir Mark and the Hallé open the Thursday Series with Stravinsky’s runaway success written for Diaghilev’s second season of Ballets Russes in Paris. A education you can hear our music for as beguiling and exotic telling of a Russian fairy tale, The Firebird, takes us on a magical journey from an enchanted forest through dreams, dances and little as £5 – including fees! games, from darkness and death, to light and rebirth. The brilliant and thought-provoking Alexander Gavrylyuk is soloist in Rachmaninov’s great There are many ways to save money on Paganini Rhapsody, arguably that composer’s defining work for piano and orchestra. ‘This one’s for my agent’ Rachmaninov said of the work’s ravishing Hallé concerts. Find out more at eighteenth variation. The concert begins with Debussy’s ground-breaking orchestral prelude, based on a poem by Mallarmé in which a faun (represented www.halle.co.uk/moneysavers by a solo flute) sees two beautiful nymphs and, drifting in and out of sleep, savours the exquisite memory.

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 9 Elder’s orchestra, now demonstrably world-class, the strings sounding silkier than ever before. THE SUNDAY TIMES

10 ≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 10 THE BEST OF PICTURES AT AN BRITISH CINEMA EXHIBITION

Saturday 7 October 2017, 7.30pm Thursday 12 October 2017, 7.30pm Wednesday 18 October 2017, 2.15pm The concert includes Sunday 22 October 2017, 7.30pm Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Walton Four Weddings And A Funeral: Carrie’s Bedroom Bennett Ravel Rapsodie espagnole 16' The Bridge On The River Kwai Arnold Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra 8' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Sherman & Sherman Ravel Boléro 16' Chariots Of Fire Vangelis Mussorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition 33' Wallace and Gromit: Theme and Chase Nott James Bond Medley Barry arr. Black Sir Mark Elder conductor • Sergio Castelló López clarinet Out Of Africa Barry Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines Goodwin These delectable concerts add French dressing to Spanish, American and Love Actually: Glasgow Love Theme Armstrong Russian ingredients. The Hallé’s principal clarinettist Sergio Castelló López is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Hedwig’s Theme John Williams soloist in Debussy’s Rhapsody. It ends with a joyful celebration of the home Sherlock Suite Arnold/Price of jazz, New Orleans. Either side of this are two Ravel works celebrating Spain and its great dance traditions. The famous Boléro is a masterpiece Stephen Bell conductor of orchestration and dramatic pacing, while the vibrant Rapsodie espagnole equally evokes the spirit of Iberia. Ravel’s genius, in his peerless version of Hallé Pops conductor Stephen Bell guides us through a festival of British film Pictures at an Exhibition takes Mussorgsky’s vivid sound-pictures far beyond favourites with scores packed full of drama, excitement and comedy. the original artworks which inspired them.

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 11 BEYOND THE SCORE® - SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO.4 - IS MUSIC DANGEROUS?

Saturday 28 October 2017, 7PM

Shostakovich Symphony No.4

Sir Mark Elder conductor • Gerard McBurney creative director

The place Russia, the year 1936 ... This was at the very moment when Stalin initiated the bloodthirsty Terror, in which hundreds of thousands died and millions were arrested and imprisoned. The Soviet Union’s most famous composer, Dmitri Shostakovich had triumphed internationally with a wildly successful opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk 25 years later, when the symphony was finally allowed to be performed, the District, running simultaneously in different theatres in Moscow and Leningrad, composer told a friend: ‘In many ways, it seems to me the Fourth is better and creating scandals and excitement in Europe and America. The composer than the symphonies that came after ...’ was determined to follow with a massive symphony, scored for enormous orchestra and designed to show the full power and scale of modern music. Beyond the Score® dramatises this dark and shocking story, setting the violence and pathos of the music alongside political and personal events in a And then he fell from grace. At the beginning of the year, two unsigned multimedia performance using diaries, letters, prose and poetry, documentary articles appear in the national newspaper Pravda, condemning his work as films and posters of the time. We hear a complete performance of the ‘coarse, primitive and vulgar’, ‘musical chaos’, an example of the evil and anti- symphony after the interval. Soviet influence of Western ‘formalism’ and bourgeois values. The opera was taken off, the new symphony abruptly cancelled, and the composer plunged Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees) into public peril. Beyond the Score® is a production of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gerard McBurney, Creative Director, Beyond the Score®

12 When we finally heard the orchestra and Elder perform the complete piece it seemed more vivid than usual, like a painting which has been cleaned of the grime of centuries. The Daily Telegraph on Beyond the Score

≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 13 MAHLER’S FOURTH SYMPHONY FOUR SACRED PIECES

Wednesday 8 November 2017, 2.15pm Thursday 16 November 2017, 7.30pm Thursday 9 November 2017, 7.30pm Vera Clegg Memorial Concert Sunday 12 November 2017, 7.30pm Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg music 26' Mozart Aria for soprano, piano and orchestra: Ch’io mi scordi di te 7' R. Strauss Don Juan 19' Mozart Symphony No.34 19' Verdi Four Sacred Pieces 41' Mahler Symphony No.4 55' Sir Mark Elder conductor • Hallé Choir Ryan Wigglesworth conductor/piano • Elizabeth Watts soprano The conflict between spiritual and sensual love has been a recurring theme in Acclaimed soprano Elizabeth Watts joins the versatile Ryan Wigglesworth in art throughout the ages and is central to Wagner’s Tannhäuser. The concert Mozart’s aria for soprano, piano and orchestra ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te’ (‘Should begins with two orchestral pieces from the opera that vividly dramatise the I forget you’). The two soloists interact exquisitely in one of the greatest conflict (theVenusberg music being a true orgy of sound!). Richard Strauss’s declarations of love in all music. Mozart’s C major Symphony was also take on the life of the fictional libertine, Don Juan, is both graphically drawn influenced by opera and exudes both tenderness and impish humour. Elizabeth and one of the great orchestral showpieces. Verdi was more a man of the returns in the second half of the concert as soloist in Mahler’s magnificent theatre than the church, though in the last decade of his life he produced his Fourth Symphony. The first movement recalls Mozart’s classical style, the moving Sacred Pieces for choir and orchestra, closing with the Te Deum, his second evokes the grim fiddler of German folklore and the third is a sublime splendid and startling hymn of praise. slow movement. Finally comes a setting of poetry depicting a child’s vision of paradise, with sweets in profusion and bread baked by angels. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees)

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14 NEVER MIND THE WEATHER HANDEL’S MESSIAH

Saturday 18 November 2017, 7.30pm Saturday 2 December 2017, 7.30pm

The concert includes: Handel Messiah 90' Singin’ in the Rain Too Darn Hot John Butt conductor Purple Rain Mhairi Lawson soprano Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano Somewhere Over The Rainbow Thomas Walker tenor Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me Robert Davies baritone Ain’t No Sunshine Hallé Choir Evergreen Summertime One of the great Hallé traditions is its annual performance of Handel’s iconic Misty Messiah: the perfect way to start the lead up to Christmas. The work was first performed in 1742 and has since remained the best-loved choral work of them Stephen Bell conductor all. Distinguished harpsichordist, organist and conductor John Butt directs this Hazel Fernandes and Lance Ellington vocalists year’s performance. The Hallé Choir will be in full-throated form in uplifting choruses such as ‘Unto us a Child is Born’ and ‘Hallelujah’, while a top line-up It may be a British obsession but composers from all over the world have of soloists grace the work’s many superb arias. In fact, the performance will been inspired by sunshine and storms and everything inbetween. Tonight two inspire throughout, from its opening ‘Comfort ye’ to its final ‘Amen’. world-class vocalists and one world-class orchestra forecast a performance that includes a selection of the very best. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees)

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 15 RACHMANINOV’S CHRISTMAS SECOND SYMPHONY FAMILY CONCERT

Wednesday 6 December 2017, 2.15pm Sunday 10 December 2017, 3PM Thursday 7 December 2017, 7.30pm Sunday 10 December 2017, 7.30pm Make sure you book early for this amazing afternoon of festive family fun with the Hallé. Our annual family concert is packed with sing-alongs, jingle-alongs, Respighi The Fountains of Rome 15' surprises, laughter and jaw-dropping wonder, which makes it the perfect way Rossini Overture: William Tell 11' for the whole family to start the Christmas countdown. This seasonal selection Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 60' box of a concert is so popular, even Father Christmas takes time out to attend!

Carlo Rizzi conductor There will be plenty to entertain you in the foyers before the concert and don’t forget your sleigh bells – homemade or real – so you can join in during the Carlo Rizzi is one of the finest conductors in the world: dynamic, energetic show. Why not get in the Christmas spirit and come dressed up? Christmas and insightful. He brings a programme full of colour and orchestral virtuosity. jumpers and Santa hats are welcome here! In the first half he conducts two works from his native Italy. Respighi’sThe Fountains of Rome vividly illustrates four of the capital’s iconic water features Alasdair Malloy presenter at different times of the day, when their beauty blends perfectly with the surroundings. No less charmingly graphic is Rossini’s William Tell Overture. It Tickets: Adults £25, Children (aged 17 and under) £16, depicts dawn, a violent storm, an idyllic pastoral scene and, most famously, the Family Tickets (4 people minimum 1 child) £64 cavalry galloping into view! The emotional intensity is raised after the interval by Rachmaninov’s abundantly lyrical and superbly-crafted Second Symphony.

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16 THE FOUR SEASONS

Friday 15 December 2017, 7.30pm

Grieg Holberg Suite Svendsen Romance for violin and orchestra www.halle.co.uk Pachelbel Canon Vivaldi The Four Seasons

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 17 HALLÉ CAROL CONCERTS A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS

Saturday 16 December 2017, 3pm Thursday 21 December 2017, 7.30pm Sunday 17 December 2017, 3pm Sunday 17 December 2017, 7.30pm The concert includes: White Christmas The concerts include: Sleigh Ride Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Unto Us Is Born A Son, O Come All Ye Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Faithful, It Came Upon The Midnight Clear Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Ding Dong Merrily On High, I Saw Three Ships, Joy To The World, The Man With The Bag Berlioz’s Shepherd’s Farewell, Anderson’s A Christmas Festival and the Let It Snow Hallé Children’s Choir performing Merry Christmas To Me It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year Do You Hear What I Hear? Stephen Bell conductor When A Child Is Born Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir • Hallé Children’s Choir Roderick Dunk conductor • Gary Williams vocalist Join us for a seasonal selection of traditional carols for orchestra, choir and Hallé Youth Training Choir audience. Come and sing some wonderful Christmas favourites, and hear the Winners of the Hallé Corporate Choir Competition Orchestra and three choirs perform even more. Gary Williams joins Roderick Dunk and the Hallé for a selection of Tickets from £15 (including booking fees) swingin’, big-band inspired seasonal favourites, with toe-tappin’ arrangements guaranteed to put the cool into Christmas.

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18 THE SNOWMAN

Friday 22 December 2017, 1.30pm Saturday 23 December 2017, 11am, 1.30pm and 4pm

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt The Snowman

Bring all the family along to the Hallé’s screening of Raymond Briggs’ classic animated film,The Snowman. The film is accompanied by the Hallé performing Howard Blake’s magical score live including a chorister singing ‘Walking in the Air’. A Christmas treat not to be missed. The concert begins with Ian Stephens’ orchestral take on Michael Rosen’s children’s masterpiece We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. A beautiful concert – ‘we’re not scared’!

Jonathon Heyward conductor • Tom Redmond presenter

Tickets: Adults £25, Children (aged 17 and under) £16, Family Tickets (4 people minimum 1 child) £64

≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 19 THE BEST OF THE AN EVENING WITH 007 WEST END

Friday 29 December 2017, 7.30pm Saturday 30 December 2017, 7.30pm

Including the themes and music from: Including music and songs from: You Only Live Twice, GoldenEye, Live and Let Die, From Russia With Love, Chicago, The Phantom Of The Opera, Cats, Gypsy, Evita, Les Misérables, Quantum of Solace, The World Is Not Enough, Goldfinger, A View To A Love Never Dies, Chess, Guys and Dolls and Carousel. Kill, Thunderball, Skyfall, For Your Eyes Only, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, The Living Daylights, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Spectre, Stephen Bell conductor Licence To Kill, Diamonds Are Forever and Casino Royale Anita Louise Combe and Scott Davies vocalists

Stephen Bell conductor • Matthew Ford and Alison Jiear vocalists Join us on the red carpet as we welcome West End stars Anita Louise Combe and Scott Davies for the ultimate opening night! Theatreland’s multi-award- Smooth as a vodka martini, elegant as a tuxedo and cool as a cucumber winning showstoppers come together, for one performance only, in this special sandwich, Stephen Bell celebrates the ultimate British hero – James Bond. party-time celebration. Immerse yourself in the spine-tingling sounds that give musical voice to the films, in punchy title sequences and haunting songs. Tickets from £15 (including booking fees)

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20 NATIONAL YOUTH A VIENNESE OF GREAT ORCHESTRA BRITAIN CELEBRATION

FRIDAY 5 January 2018, 7.30PM Saturday 6 January 2018, 3PM NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN The concert includes: Liadov The Enchanted Lake J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus: Overture and Adele’s Laughing Song Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice J. Strauss II On The Beautiful Blue Danube Bartók Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Lehár The Merry Widow: Vilja-Lied Kalman Countess Maritza: Overture Sir Mark Elder conductor • Bluebeard Robert Hayward bass-baritone J. Strauss II Tritsch Tratsch Polka Judith Claudia Mahnke mezzo-soprano Lehár Giuditta: Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss Josef Straus Frauenhertz: Polka-Mazurka The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain launches its 70th year J. Strauss II New Pizzicato Polka celebrations with an enchanting and mystical programme that showcases J. Strauss II Frülingsstimmen perfectly the orchestra’s infectious energy and passionate creativity. J. Strauss II Cuckoo Polka J. Strauss I Radetzky March Sir Mark Elder, once a member of the Orchestra, now takes the helm to guide us on an adventure that explores the mysteries of the deep in Liadov’s Enchanted Stephen Bell conductor • Jennifer France soprano Lake; the weird and wonderful magical world of Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice and ending in Bartók’s suspenseful orchestral showpiece Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, The Hallé’s traditional New Year concert includes all your Strauss family a one-act opera in which an impulsive young bride turns her back on her family, favourites. Romantic waltzes, thrilling polkas and stirring marches are only to uncover increasingly dark truths about her new husband. combined with the enchanting Jennifer France singing wonderful arias and songs of the period. Tickets: £27, £23 and £18 (under 25s £7) including fees Group rates and other concessions available from the box office Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees)

≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 21 The Hallé were the stars, responsive to every nuance of Elder’s direction The Times

22 SHOSTAKOVICH BEETHOVEN’S ‘EROICA’

Thursday 18 January 2018, 7.30pm Wednesday 24 January 2018, 2.15pm Thursday 25 January 2018, 7.30pm Shostakovich Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin 12' THE Abraham Moss Memorial Concert Shostakovich Cello Concerto No.1 29' Sunday 28 January 2018, 7.30pm Shostakovich Symphony No.5 47' Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps 9' Sir Mark Elder conductor Elgar Cello Concerto 30' Alisa Weilerstein cello • James Platt bass Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’ 53'

Much of Shostakovich’s extraordinary output was profoundly marked by Cristian Mˇacelaru conductor • Andrei Ionitˇa cello politics and the judgements of censors. The composer was on relatively safe ground when he wrote his Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin to celebrate The overture Vaughan Williams composed for a production of The Wasps the 100th anniversary of the Russian poet’s death. Nevertheless, the first song, by Aristophanes is both suitably waspish and richly lyrical. Andrei Ionitˇa ‘Rebirth’, makes Pushkin’s battles with the critics very much the composer’s then joins Cristian Mˇacelaru and the Hallé for Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one own. There are strong links between the songs and Shostakovich’s monumental of the greatest works ever written for the instrument. The piece is full of Fifth Symphony, one of the greatest and most powerful of twentieth-century gossamer-light orchestral writing, delicate cello virtuosity and unforgettable orchestral works. The great American cellist Alisa Weilerstein performed melodies. Throughout musical history only a few works have truly changed its Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto in 2015 and now returns to perform course, among them Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony. A token of the composer’s its ground-breaking predecessor, one of the highlights of the entire cello heroism as he confronted his increasing deafness, it is a remarkable experience repertoire. that ends in triumph.

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 23 HALLÉ AND HALLÉ HALLÉ YOUTH YOUTH ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLES

Sunday 28 January 2018, 3PM You can also hear the Hallé’s Youth Ensembles at The Bridgewater Hall on the following dates: Wagner Götterdämmerung: Funeral March (Act III) and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey 18' Berlioz Excerpts from The Trojans 25' Saturday 16 December 2017, 7.30pm Hallé Youth Orchestra Sir Mark Elder conductor • Jonathon Heyward conductor

This coming together of younger and more experienced musicians would Sunday 25 March 2018, 3pm have delighted our founder Sir Charles Hallé who conducted the orchestra’s HALLÉ YOUTH ENSEMBLES very first concert 160 years ago, almost to this day. The event, beginning Hallé Youth Orchestra with a short open rehearsal, features exhilarating orchestral music from two Hallé Youth Choir works dear to the great man’s heart. Sir Mark Elder, just the ninth permanent Hallé Youth Training Choir conductor in the orchestra’s long history, begins with two thrilling orchestral Hallé Children’s Choir highlights from Götterdämmerung, the final part of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle. Like his great predecessor, Sir Mark is a committed supporter of young talent. The Hallé’s Assistant Conductor and Music Director of the Hallé Youth Tickets for Hallé Youth Ensemble events: Orchestra, Jonathon Heyward, takes up the baton with music from another Adults £12, Concessions £9.50, truly epic operatic work, The Trojans by Berlioz. Sir Charles would have been Students and under 5s £5 (including booking fee) so proud!

24 STRAVINSKY’S ESPAÑA PETRUSHKA

Saturday 3 February 2018, 7.30pm Thursday 8 February 2018, 7.30pm

Bizet Carmen Suite No.1 and Habañera Oliver Knussen The Way to Castle Yonder 8' Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Stravinsky Petrushka 34' Piazzolla Libertango (for guitar and strings) Mussorgsky orch. Shostakovich Songs and Dances of Death 19' Chabrier España: rhapsody for orchestra Mahler Totenfeier 22' Falla The Three Cornered Hat: Suite Nos.1 and 2 Ravel Boléro Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Brindley Sherratt bass

Gergely Madaras conductor • Craig Ogden guitar Mussorgsky is a huge figure in Russian musical history. Tonight features one of his finest works,Songs and Dances of Death, sensitively orchestrated by Welcome to one of the most evocative concerts of the year. Forget the his admirer Shostakovich and sung by the superb Brindley Sherratt (there damp cold winter outside and join the Hallé and Craig Ogden, who performs are few more evocative sounds than a bass voice singing Russian). The theme Rodrigo’s matchless guitar concerto, for an evening of Spanish-inspired of mortality continues with a rare performance of Mahler’s breathtaking warmth and passion. Totenfeier, a work that became the opening movement of its composer’s Second Symphony, ‘The Resurrection’. Stravinsky’s game-changing ballet score Tickets from £14 (including booking fees) Petrushka is a wonderfully graphic affair that tells of the life, death and ghostly reappearance of its eponymous puppet hero; while Oliver Knussen’s The Way to Castle Yonder, music drawn from his opera Higglety, Pigglety, Pop!, starts the evening with equal poignancy, imagination and humour.

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 25 BRAHMS’S FIRST OPERA LOVERS’ NIGHT PIANO CONCERTO

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 7.30pm Wednesday 21 February 2018, 2.15pm Thursday 22 February 2018, 7.30pm Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville Sunday 25 February 2018, 7.30pm Catalani La Wally: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana Puccini Tosca: Recondita armonia Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage 12' Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March Beethoven Symphony No.4 32' Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 44' Verdi Aida: Grand March Donizetti L’elisir d’amore: Una furtiva lagrima Karina Canellakis conductor • Sunwook Kim piano Bernstein West Side Story: Tonight Massenet Tha s: Méditation Praised internationally for her technical and musical gifts, in 2016 Karina Dvoˇrák Rusalka: Song to the Moon Canellakis won the prestigious Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. She is Puccini Turandot: Nessun Dorma joined by Hallé favourite Sunwook Kim for Brahms’s monumental First Piano Puccini La bohème: Finale to Act 1 Concerto, an absolute tour de force of the repertoire and a piece he has recorded with the orchestra. Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony is now a Hallé Stephen Bell conductor • Sarah Fox soprano • Noah Stewart tenor party piece that thrills audiences wherever they play it. The programme sets sail with Mendelssohn’s evocative Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. Inspired Tonight’s opera extravaganza features a wonderful collection of by both the poetry of Goethe and the music of Beethoven, it’s one of the world-famous arias, duets and grand orchestral interludes. This is the perfect greatest of all musical seascapes. way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, and the perfect way to enjoy some of the world’s best-loved opera with two of our favourite stars. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees)

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26 To a packed Bridgewater Hall, every participant played or sang their hearts out. The Observer SHOSTAKOVICH’S GREAT SCI-FI MOVIES EIGHTH SYMPHONY

Saturday 10 March 2018, 7.30pm Thursday 15 March 2018, 7.30pm

20th Century Fox Fanfare Bach Piano Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 23' Star Wars: Main Title Mendelssohn Psalm 114 13' Thunderbirds Shostakovich Symphony No.8 61' Star Trek: The Motion Picture Back To The Future Sir Mark Elder conductor E.T.: Adventures on Earth Charles Owen piano • Hallé Choir • Hallé Youth Choir 2001: A Space Odyssey Also sprach Zarathustra Close Encounters of the Third Kind ‘A class above the rest’ was how International Piano recently described Charles Star Trek: Into Darkness Owen. Tonight he brings his unique spontaneity and skills of interpretation Stargate to bear on Bach’s majestic D minor concerto. Both Mendelssohn and Star Wars: The Force Awakens: X-Wing Scherzo Shostakovich were huge admirers of Bach, and much of Mendelssohn’s music, Avatar including his great psalm settings, reflects the Baroque master’s influence. Independence Day: Suite Shostakovich’s massive Eighth Symphony was composed during the Second World War and, as his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk had done, landed him Stephen Bell conductor • Tom Redmond presenter in political trouble. In typically cryptic fashion, Shostakovich himself summed up its message in just three words, ‘life is beautiful’, though it is infinitely more Set your phasers to stun and let your imagination run riot with this inter-stellar complex and dramatic than those words suggest. It ends with just a faint collection of sci-fi classics. Beam yourself up to The Bridgewater Hall and enjoy breath of optimism – not enough for the Soviet authorities who wanted a a close encounter with the Hallé. triumphant war symphony instead.

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28 SAINT-SAËNS’ CELEBRATING ‘ORGAN’ SYMPHONY QUINCY JONES

Wednesday 21 March 2018, 2.15pm Saturday 7 April 2018, 7.30pm Thursday 22 March 2018, 7.30pm Sunday 25 March 2018, 7.30pm The concert includes: Soul Bossa Nova, On Days Like These, Let The Good Times Roll, Weber Overture: Oberon 10' Billie Jean, Thriller, Fly Me To the Moon, Come Fly With Me and more Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 35' Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, ‘Organ’ 37' Guy Barker conductor Tony Momrelle and Vanessa Haynes vocalists Jonathon Heyward conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano • Jonathan Scott organ We celebrate the phenomenal success of the legendary composer, arranger, record producer, instrumentalist, film and television producer and actor, The Hallé’s Assistant Conductor, Jonathon Heyward, directs Weber’s Quincy Jones. From his early beginnings as a talented trumpet player, with the enchanting and exhilarating Oberon Overture. Over the last few seasons Hallé Lionel Hampton Orchestra to becoming the most Grammy nominated artist audiences have adored the playing of Benjamin Grosvenor, one of the finest ever, he has worked with a vast array of great artists across many genres young pianists in the world. He performs Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, including Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Frank a work that tests the mettle of any soloist. Though initially dark-hued, the Sinatra and Michael Jackson. piece ends in exuberant fashion. Jonathan Scott then pulls out all the stops in Saint-Saëns’ impressive, fascinatingly-textured ‘Organ Symphony’. Of Tickets from £14 (including booking fees) composing the piece, Saint-Saëns wrote: ‘I gave everything to it that I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.’

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 29 The Hallé must be in the running for Britain’s most refined orchestra The Times RACHMANINOV’S BRAHMS’ FIRST THIRD PIANO CONCERTO SYMPHONY

Thursday 12 April 2018, 7.30pm Wednesday 18 April 2018, 2.15pm Thursday 19 April 2018, 7.30pm Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 40' Sunday 22 April 2018, 7.30pm Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales 16' John Adams Harmonium 33' Wagner Overture: The Mastersingers 11' Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 29' Nicholas Collon conductor Brahms Symphony No.1 47' Boris Giltburg piano • Hallé Choir Nicholas Collon conductor • Augustin Hadelich violin The great American composer John Adams has long been associated with the Hallé. For what is effectively a choral symphony, Harmonium, he set poetry Grammy award-winning Augustin Hadelich plays Mendelssohn’s Violin by John Donne and Emily Dickinson, texts that suited his vision of ‘human Concerto, the composer’s most popular creation and a wondrous fusion of voices riding upon waves of rippling sound’. One of the first of Adams’ mature romantic lyricism and classical restraint. It is an inspired, innovative work masterpieces, it is a remarkable experience. So too is Rachmaninov’s Third with a lullaby-like slow movement and a brilliant finale. Brahms struggled Piano Concerto, a triumph of the Romantic piano repertoire. The soloist is as he wrote his First Symphony, a process that took some nineteen years, Boris Giltburg, described by Gramophone as ‘a truly memorable Rachmaninov though it was well worth the wait. This uplifting masterpiece established him interpreter’. After the concerto, Nicholas Collon directs Ravel’s delightful as the true heir and successor of his great hero Beethoven. Conducting these suite of waltzes, Valses nobles et sentimentales, all of them orchestrated in the concerts is the inspiring Nicholas Collon. He begins with The Mastersingers French composer’s inimitable style. Overture, a superb medley of themes from Wagner’s most warm-hearted and humorous opera. Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees) Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees)

≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 31 THRILLS, CHILLS SIBELIUS’S AND SPILLS! SEVENTH SYMPHONY

Saturday 28 April 2018, 7.30pm Thursday 10 May 2018, 7.30pm

Including music from: Beethoven Violin Concerto in D 43' Dark Knight/Batman Begins, Taxi Driver, Indiana Jones and the Last Ryan Wigglesworth Clocks from a Winter’s Tale 20' Crusade, The Sixth Sense, Pyscho, Jaws, North by Northwest, The Witches Sibelius Symphony No.7 21' of Eastwick,The Hateful Eight, The Incredibles, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Eyes Wide Shut Ryan Wigglesworth conductor • Henning Kraggerud violin

Stephen Bell conductor • Petroc Trelawny presenter The remarkable Henning Kraggerud returns to play, what is for many, the greatest Violin Concerto of them all. Its extensive first movement is largely Tense thrillers and great adventure stories have produced some of the world’s lyrical, the second sublime and the third simply bursts with buoyancy and most exciting and atmospheric soundtracks. Tonight we feature some of the energy. Clocks from a Winter’s Tale emerged from Ryan Wigglesworth’s most iconic. You’ll never go into the water again … Shakespeare-based opera The Winter’s Tale, given its premiere by English National Opera in 2017. Its three movements explore the development of Tickets from £14 (including booking fees) simple rhythmic figures or pulses – hence ‘clocks’ – as they warp, bend and collide. Equally fascinating is Sibelius’s final symphony, his Seventh. An enigmatic work, it is a single span of continuous musical development in which seven sections are linked by almost imperceptible changes of tempo.

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32 MENDELSSOHN’S ‘SCOTTISH’ SYMPHONY

Thursday 17 May 2018, 7.30pm Sunday 20 May 2018, 7.30pm Wednesday 23 May 2018, 2.15pm

Schubert Symphony No.8, ‘Unfinished’ 23' www.halle.co.uk Mozart Piano Concerto No.18, K456 29' Mendelssohn Symphony No.3, ‘Scottish’ 37' @the_halle Sir Mark Elder conductor • Hong Xu piano Sir Mark conducts Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony and whilst it might be  thehalle unfinished, its two movements form one of the most beautiful and satisfying musical experiences of them all. Hong Xu is not just a pianist of dazzling technique but a musician of great subtlety and insight. He performs Mozart’s  B flat major Piano Concerto, written for the blind pianist and composer TheHalleOfficial Maria Theresia von Paradis. Its two lively outer movements frame exquisite variations on a theme. Mendelssohn’s symphonic homage to Scotland evokes the atmosphere of Edinburgh’s Holyrood Palace, misty glens, magnificent @the_halle mountains and the country’s distinctive folk music.

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 33 WAGNER SIEGFRIED Mark Elder’s semi-staged performances with the Hallé have become red- letter events for Wagnerians Opera Magazine WAGNER’S SIEGFRIED

Saturday 2 June 2018, 5PM Sunday 3 June 2018, 6PM

Wagner Siegfried: Acts I and II 164' Wagner Siegfried: Act III 96’

Sir Mark Elder conductor Sir Mark Elder conductor

The cast: The cast:

Siegfried Simon O’Neill tenor Siegfried Simon O’Neill tenor Mime Gerhard Siegel tenor The Wanderer Iain Paterson bass-baritone The Wanderer Iain Paterson bass-baritone Erda Anna Larsson contralto Alberich tbc bass-baritone Brünnhilde Rachel Nicholls soprano Fafner Clive Bailey bass Woodbird Malin Christensson soprano Tickets from £13.50 (including booking fees)

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36 Sir Mark, the Hallé and an outstanding cast of singers end the season in magnificent style with a two-night concert performance of Wagner’s mammoth opera Siegfried, the third part of the Ring cycle. Based on ancient Nordic sagas, the Ring is a timeless moral drama concerned with love, power and corruption, a vast fable that is as relevant today as ever. In Siegfried, the opera’s eponymous hero forges a mighty sword, slays the dragon Fafner, goes on to possess the cursed Ring and releases the sleeping Brünnhilde from her fiery mountain-top exile. Wagner’s use of musical leitmotifs as an integral part of the story is simply enthralling, while the glorious orchestral preludes that open Acts I and III are hugely impressive in their own right. Musically and dramatically this is a two-part event not to be missed. the Hallé prove you don’t need a theatre for vivid Wagner THE GUARDIAN CIRCLE When to book ALCOVE CIRCLE CHOIR SEATS Public booking opens on Monday 8 May 2017. ALCOVE SIDE GALLERY How to book PLATFORM www.halle.co.uk • 0161 907 9000

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BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS (at April 2017) CHOIR CIRCLE LEFT Monday to Saturday 10am–6pm SIDE CIRCLE LEFT Sunday (concert nights only) 12pm–6pm. CHOIR CIRCLE RIGHT Closed on non-concert Sundays. Counter service until 8pm on concert nights CIRCLE SIDE CIRCLE RIGHT

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38 INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES (including booking fees, see below) A B C D E F Thursday Series, Collection, Opus One concerts and 6 January £42 £36.50 £32 £26.50 £20.50 £13.50 Pops concerts £43 £38 £30 £22 £14 Christmas concerts £43 £38 £30 £22 £15 Beyond The Score £34 £29 £24 £19 £13.50 The Snowman and Christmas Family Concert Adults £25, Children (aged 17 and under) £16, Family Tickets (4 people minimum 1 child) £64 Youth Ensembles concerts Adults £12, Concessions £9.50, Students and under 5s £5 FIXED SUBSCRIPTION TICKET PRICES (Prices are per person) A B C D E F Thursday Series (7 CONCERTS) £196 £169.05 £147 £120.05 £90.65 £56.35 Disabled person’s subscription £140 £120.75 £105 £85.75 £64.75 £40.25 Thursday Series plus Collection (11 CONCERTS) £308 £265.65 £231 £188.65 £142.45 £88.55 Disabled person’s subscription £220 £189.75 £165 £134.75 £101.75 £63.25 Opus One Concerts (9 CONCERTS) Individuals and groups of up to 9 people £306 £263.97 £229.50 £187.47 £141.57 £88.02 Groups of 10 to 49 people £270 £232.92 £202.50 £165.42 £124.92 £77.67 Groups of 50+ people £252 £217.35 £189 £154.35 £116.55 £72.45 Disabled person’s subscription £180 £155.25 £135 £110.25 £83.25 £51.75 Pops concerts (8 CONCERTS) £262.40 £230.40 £179.20 £128 £76.80 Disabled person’s subscription £164 £144 £112 £80 £48

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 BOOKING fee applies to tickets bought in person and paid for by cash or cheque or purchased as part of a fixed or personal subscription.

≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 39 Concessions and discounts CLAIMANTS AND OVER 60s Personal FLEXIBLE Subscriptions † Claimants can purchase tickets at 10% off Receive discounts on the full ticket price when Experiencing the Hallé’s anywhere in the auditorium, on production of you book for five or more concerts from The concerts has never been appropriate identification. From two Mondays Bridgewater Hall’s 2017–2018 classical seasons. prior to the performance, over 60s may purchase Choose 5 or more concerts and save 15% easier, or better value. any remaining tickets and get a 20% discount. Choose 16 or more concerts and save 25% Hallé Day Tickets † Too much to pay in one go? UNDER 30s * A limited number of tickets will be available for You can pay for your tickets by direct debit in five Anyone aged 30 or under can save 15% off many each concert on the day, priced at £12 (including monthly instalments from 1 September 2017 when of the Hallé’s prices. booking fees). They can be booked in person, by you spend £250 or more. Completed direct debit phone or online. Visit www.halle.co.uk/moneysavers for full details. mandates must be received by Friday 21 July 2017. Group discounts £3 STUDENT TICKETS * (Please note the Box Office cannot accept direct Discounts of up to 25% are available, depending debits on online bookings.) For just £3 (£5 including booking fee, see page on the size of your group. Call The Bridgewater 37) students in full-time education can hear the Hall’s Group Bookings Department directly on Hallé perform extraordinary music in the fantastic 0161 907 9010. † All Hallé concerts are included except surroundings of The Bridgewater Hall. The Snowman, Family and Youth Ensemble Groups of 10–29 save 10% performances. These tickets are available in the stalls for the Groups of 30–49 save 15% Hallé’s Thursday Series, Collection and Opus Groups of 50+ save 25% One concerts. Additional events may be added throughout the year so check for full details at Have you ever thought of joining a www.halle.co.uk or follow us on Twitter and Hallé group? Facebook. Our Opus One concerts attract groups from all * These offers are subject to availability. You may over the North West, and some from even further be asked to show appropriate identification. afield. If you would like to find out more about joining a Hallé group, either as a subscriber or perhaps to take a spare seat on a coach, please contact the Group Bookings Department on 0161 907 9010 or email [email protected]

40 REFUNDS/Ticket exchange PROGRAMME CHANGES, PRICES and Pre-concert events Tickets cannot be refunded, but may be exchanged CHILDREN There are pre-concert events prior to some of subject to The Bridgewater Hall’s terms and All artists and programmes are correct at the time our concerts. These are normally held in the conditions. If you are unable to attend a concert, of going to press, but may change in the event of auditorium and are free to concert ticket holders. The Bridgewater Hall will credit your account unforeseen circumstances. Full details will be announced in the autumn and with the cost of your tickets, provided they are Keep up to date at www.halle.co.uk can be found at www.halle.co.uk physically returned to the Box Office at least three All prices and tickets, including discounts and working days before the concert date. This credit concessions, are subject to availability. Prices may amount (minus a return fee of £2.20 per ticket) change and you may only use one discount per ticket. can then be used to purchase tickets for another THE HALLÉ AND THE BBC concert of your choice. For licensing reasons, everyone, including babes in arms where appropriate, is required to have a ticket. Details are available from the Box Office DISABLED PATRONS and at www.halle.co.uk. Disabled patrons save 50%, and, if a carer Other than for specific family concerts, we is required, the carer comes free. Disabled recommend that younger members of our concessions are not available online. The audiences be at least of primary school age. Bridgewater Hall is fully accessible and welcomes disabled patrons. By letting us know your access Some of the Hallé’s concerts in the 2017–18 requirements, we will, where possible, be able to season will feature on Radio 3. This is part of the seat you appropriately. Information on disabled ongoing partnership between the Hallé and the parking can be found on page 40. UK’s leading cultural broadcaster. For times and Please visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk for full dates of the broadcasts visit www.bbc.co.uk/ information or contact the Box Office on 0161 907 radio3 9000.

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≥ 17/18 SEASON AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL | 41 The Bridgewater Hall PARKING The Bridgewater Hall is open from 11am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday, from A limited number of pre-pay discounted spaces are available to patrons 12 noon for weekend matinee concerts and from 5pm on all concert nights. attending evening concerts at Q-Park First Street car park at a rate of £6.50. Closing times vary and depend on the duration of concerts. Spaces must be booked in advance via the Box Office or online at the time of EATING AND DRINKING AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL purchasing your concert tickets no less than 24hrs before the event. The Charles Hallé Restaurant is open from 5.30pm on concert nights. Enjoy the Parking is limited to a maximum stay of 8 hours at the discounted rate. best value for money, quality cuisine in Manchester, with a fixed-price menu du Patrons attending matinee concerts at The Bridgewater Hall can obtain a jour: two courses are £21.95 and three courses £27.50, inclusive of coffee and voucher from the Hall’s Box Office or Information Desk which will discount the petits fours. Stalls Café Bar offers a more casual pre-concert dining experience daytime parking rate at Q-Park First Street by 15% with main courses from £10.95. For full details, visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk or contact the Box Office on Reservations are required for pre-concert dining - book through the Box 0161 907 9000. Office on 0161 907 9000 or online at www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk. Please DISABLED PARKING note a £5 per person deposit is required; this is non-refundable in the event of cancellation with less than three days’ notice. There are a limited number of complimentary disabled parking spaces for blue badge holders at NCP Manchester Central, allocated on a first-come-first- Stalls Café Bar is also open for drinks and light bites from 5.30pm on concert served basis. Spaces are free of charge but a ticket must be booked through nights and from 11am to 2.30pm when there is matinee concert. the Box Office with your concert tickets. Pre-concert and interval drinks Bars are located on all four levels, serving drinks before the concert and during the interval. Coffee is served in the Stalls and Circle bars. We recommend that you pre-order your interval drinks (this service is available from all bars). The BRIDGEWATER HALL shop Open Monday to Friday from 11am to 3pm and from 6pm on concert nights.

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Saturday 28 October 2017, 7PM Saturday 23 September 2017, 7.30pM Beyond The Score® Classical Extravaganza Shostakovich Symphony No.4 - Is Music Dangerous? Sir Mark Elder conductor • Gerard McBurney creative director Saturday 7 October 2017, 7.30pm The Best of British Cinema

Saturday 2 December 2017, 7.30pm Saturday 18 November 2017, 7.30pm Handel Messiah Never Mind the Weather John Butt conductor • soloists • Hallé Choir Saturday 3 February 2018, 7.30pm España Saturday 2 June 2018, 5PM Wednesday 14 February 2018, 7.30pm Wagner Siegfried: Acts I and II Opera Lovers’ Night Sir Mark Elder conductor • soloists Saturday 10 March 2018, 7.30pm Sunday 3 June 2018, 6PM Great Sci-Fi Movies Wagner Siegfried: Act III Saturday 7 April 2018, 7.30pm Sir Mark Elder conductor • soloists Celebrating Quincy Jones

Saturday 28 April 2018, 7.30pm Thrills, Chills and Spills! OPUS ONE CONCERTS Thursday 14 September 2017, 7.30pm Wednesday 6 December 2017, 2.15pm Wednesday 21 March 2018, 2.15pm Sunday 17 September 2017, 7.30pm Thursday 7 December 2017, 7.30pm Thursday 22 March 2018, 7.30pm Wednesday 20 September 2017, 2.15pm Sunday 10 December 2017, 7.30pm Sunday 25 March 2018, 7.30pm Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: May Night Respighi The Fountains of Rome Weber Overture: Oberon Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Rossini Overture: William Tell Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, ‘Pathétique’ Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, ‘Organ’ Pablo González conductor • Barry Douglas piano Carlo Rizzi conductor Jonathon Heyward conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano Jonathan Scott organ Thursday 12 October 2017, 7.30pm Wednesday 24 January 2018, 2.15pm Wednesday 18 October 2017, 2,15pm Thursday 25 January 2018, 7.30pm Sunday 22 October 2017, 7.30pm Sunday 28 January 2018, 7.30pm Wednesday 18 April 2018, 2.15pm Ravel Rapsodie espagnole Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Thursday 19 April 2018, 7.30pm Debussy Rhapsody for clarinet and orchestra Elgar Cello Concerto Sunday 22 April 2018, 7.30pm Ravel Boléro Beethoven Symphony No.3, ‘Eroica’ Wagner Overture: The Mastersingers Mussorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Cristian Mˇacelaru conductor • Andrei Ionitˇa cello Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Sir Mark Elder conductor Brahms Symphony No. 1 Sergio Castelló López clarinet Nicholas Collon conductor Wednesday 21 February 2018, 2.15pm Augustin Hadelich violin Thursday 22 February 2018, 7.30pm Wednesday 8 November 2017, 2.15pm Sunday 25 February 2018, 7.30pm Thursday 9 November 2017, 7.30pm Mendelssohn Overture: Calm Sea and Thursday 17 May 2018, 7.30pm Sunday 12 November 2017, 7.30pm Prosperous Voyage Sunday 20 May 2018, 7.30pm Mozart Aria: Ch’io mi scordi di te Beethoven Symphony No.4 Wednesday 23 May 2018, 2.15pm Mozart Symphony No.34 Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 Schubert Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’ Mahler Symphony No.4 Karina Canellakis conductor Mozart Piano Concerto No.18, K456 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor/piano Sunwook Kim piano Mendelssohn Symphony No.3, ‘Scottish’ Elizabeth Watts soprano Sir Mark Elder conductor • Hong Xu piano Diamond Partner Principal Sponsor Major sponsors The Hallé Concerts Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of Arts Council England, Manchester City Council and the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities.