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Hallé Orchestra

July 2024

  • Elim Chan conducting and Isata Kanneh-Mason at the piano.

    The week in classical: BBC Proms week one review – hallelujahs all round

  • A focus on the music’s architecture … Mark Elder, left, conducts the Hallé Orchestra in Prom 4.

    Prom 4: Hallé/Elder review – a farewell eclipsed by the quality of the music-making

June 2024

  • Sir Mark Elder

    Brief letters
    A fitting finale for Sir Mark Elder with the Hallé Orchestra

    Brief letters: Final bow and bouquet | The Rakes: gentlemen players | Scottish football | Sunak’s plight | Farage’s backup plan

May 2024

  • Security, warmth and refinement … Mark Elder conducts the Hallé.

    Elgar: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 album review – warmth, refinement and conviction

  • Sir Mark Elder with Stephen Hough and the Hallé on Wednesday night in Manchester.

    Hough/Hallé/Elder review – Americana, jazz and virtuosity in debut for piano concerto

April 2024

  • Panache … Sir Mark Elder and Eri Nakamura perform the original version of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra

    Simon Boccanegra review – vast forces bring Verdi’s ‘fiasco’ to vivid life

  • Conjuring echoes of late Mahler … Thomas Adès conducts the Hallé orchestra.

    Hallé/Adès review – an exhilarating and magnificent partnership

February 2024

  • Reich festival / Halle orchestra, 2024

    Steve Reich festival review – Colin Currie and the Hallé ease into the groove

    The Hallé’s celebration of the 87-year-old composer, curated by percussionist Colin Currie, opened with masterly performances of his intricate works, including the shimmeringly beautiful Music for Ensemble and Orchestra

October 2023

  • User experience or customer satisfaction concept.

    Brief letters
    Who’s got time for customer reviews?

    Brief letters: Taking a dim view | That petrol emotion | Cockerel on tape | Rush-hour concerts

September 2023

  • After almost a quarter century, conductor and orchestra have become a finely honed machine … Mark Elder.

    Hallé/Elder review – enthralling vision of Mahler’s ninth

    Opening his last season with the Manchester orchestra, Mark Elder’s reading of Mahler’s final completed symphony was full of individual character, drama and splendidly vulgar playing

July 2023

  • a theatre set made of cubes with the periodic table projected on to it, and a singer dressed as a schoolboy stood to the top right of the set

    The week in classical: Itch; Semele; Prom 16: Hallé/Elder – review

    Jonathan Dove transforms Simon Mayo’s ripping yarn into an exhilarating instant classic; it’s Thebes by way of Port Talbot in Adele Thomas’s Glyndebourne debut; and all hail the Hallé
  • Capacity crowd, capacity performers … Prom 16: Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Orchestra and Choir.

    Prom 16: Hallé/Elder review – orchestra and conductor seem to think, breathe and feel as one

    Mark Elder marshals huge forces to bring compelling depths and power to Rachmaninov’s The Bells and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony in an unmissable performance
  • Manchester Collective; Kahchun Wong conducts the Hallé; Anja Bihlmaier, ‘cha-cha-cha-style’ with the BBC Phil; star saxophonist Jess Gillam – all at Manchester Classical.

    The week in classical: Manchester Classical; Alice Sara Ott and Friends: Quartet for the End of Time – review

    The Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and Manchester Collective join forces in an enticing new weekender for their home city. Elsewhere, breathless, barefoot revelations with Messiaen

May 2023

  • Conducting the Hallé Orchestra for the first time … Dalia Stasevska

    Hallé orchestra/Stasevska review – Beethoven’s wit and Sibelius’s passion

    A programme of Sibelius, Andrea Tarrodi and Beethoven – with soloists Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Benjamin Grosvenor and Hyeyoon Park – saw the Hallé on magnificent form, conducted with flair and grace

March 2023

  • Euan Shields conducts the Hallé at Bridgewater Hall.

    The week in classical: Siemens Hallé international conductors competition; LSO/ Hannigan; Turandot – review

    A trio of young conductors vie for a job with the Hallé; Barbara Hannigan takes Mahler at his word; and Antonio Pappano makes a thriller of Puccini’s final opera

December 2022

  • Every phrase is exactly weighted … singer and composer Roderick Williams.

    A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams review – every word perfectly coloured, every phrase exactly weighted

    Baritone Williams has orchestrated this wide selection of songs by British and Irish composers and illuminates each one with moving personal touches

October 2022

  • Mark Elder and Pavel Kolesnikov.

    Pavel Kolesnikov/Hallé/Mark Elder review – superb Sibelius and no-frills Rachmaninov

    Kolesnikov met the challenges of Rachmaninov’s demanding Third Piano Concerto with ease, and the orchestra soared during Sibelius’s glorious Third Symphony

September 2022

  • Allan Clayton singing The Dream of Gerontius at Prom 59, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner

    The week in classical: The Dream of Gerontius, Bach’s Mass in B minor and Nathan Laube at the Proms

    Jamie Barton and Allan Clayton lead a dream Gerontius in a week of choral epics at the Proms. Elsewhere, deep listening and silence…

March 2022

  • Lucy Powell, Manchester Central MP and shadow culture secretary photographed at Hallé St Peter’s.

    ‘Nadine Dorries is terrible! That’s made my job easier’: Labour’s Lucy Powell on the Tories, culture war and BBC

  • Tenor Alessandro Fisher with Mark Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Philharmonic at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - 26 February 2022

    The week in classical: BBC Philharmonic/Wigglesworth; Sergei Babayan and Martha Argerich

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