Sunday
Get Creative
10am - 5pm
Circle foyer
Recommended for families with children in KS1-2.
Pick up a free colouring in sheet from the Circle Choir Foyer and learn more about the history of the Hallé as part of the Ancoats: the Hallé Story project.
RNCM M15 Brass Quintet
10am - 10:45am
Stalls Foyer
Matthew Kenny, Andrew Farrow trumpet
Molly Bielecki french horn
Barney Shaw trombone
Ben Whitehead tuba
Franz Liszt arr Jeff Luke Hungarian Rhapsody No 2
Engelbert Humperdinck arr Henry C Smith Evening Prayer
Mark Nightingale Song for Rosie Edward Gregson Equale Dances Richard Wainwright arr Cook How Sweet the Name
The M15 Brass Quintet was formed in 2020. Since then, the quintet has been afforded a wide range of opportunities including regular coaching sessions, masterclasses and concerts. M15 have been chosen to participate in the finals for the 2023 International Phillip Jones Brass Quintet Competition; the following programme consists of pieces they have prepared for this competition.
This is a free performance in the stalls foyer.
BBC Philharmonic
11am - 12pm
Main Stage
BBC Philharmonic
Joshua Weilerstein conductor
Beethoven Overture: Egmont
Elgar Chanson de matin
Ravel Alborada del Gracioso
Takemitsu Towards the Sea II
Bartók Romanian Folk Dances
Dawson Negro Folk Symphony (The bonds of Africa)
The BBC Philharmonic return, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein, beginning with Beethoven’s Overture for Egmont, encapsulating the story of the Dutch Count who defied a Spanish attack, securing freedom for his country. We then take a visit to Spain courtesy of Ravel in the frenzied dance rhythms of his Alborada del Gracioso. Our whirlwind tour then calls in on Japan in Takemitsu’s Towards the Sea II before returning again to Europe for Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances, before our final piece by the African-American composer William Dawson where we return to ideas of freedom and salvation in the opening movement of his Negro Folk Symphony.
This concert is being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 11am. It will be available for 30 days after broadcast via BBC Sounds, where you can also find podcasts and music mixes.
Be Hear Now
11am - 11.50am
Circle foyer
For SEND young people and their families
Fun creative music sessions designed for SEND young people and their families, with musicians from Live Music Now. After the session, why not stay for our Relaxed performances by the Halle Youth Ensemble and Halle Ancoats Choir.
This will be a free session in the Circle foyer. Tickets are not required, but space is limited.
Hallé Youth Training Choir
12.30pm - 1pm
Barbirolli Room
George Gershwin, arr. Mark Hayes Summertime
Dodie, arr. George Chung Secret for the Mad
Words by John Parker, music by Greg Gilpin Ain't no Windin
Songbirds Collection arr. By Stuart Overington
The Hallé Youth Training Choir brings an uplifting programme with a touch of summer to the Barbirolli room. This free performance is bound to get you in a summer mood!
The choir comprises of promising 13-15 year old singers, all with a passion for music and all working to develop their vocal skills. Run by choral directors Stuart Overington and Matthew Roughley, the choir enjoys a broad range of repertoire, and pride themselves in creating a welcoming environment for members to advance their musicianship amongst other likeminded singers.
This will be a free performance in the Barbirolli Room. Tickets are not required, but space is limited.
Be Hear Now
2pm - 2.50pm
Circle foyer
For SEND young people and their families
Fun creative music sessions designed for SEND young people and their families, with musicians from Live Music Now. After the session, why not stay for our Relaxed performances by the Halle Youth Ensemble and Halle Ancoats Choir.
This will be a free session in the Circle foyer. Tickets are not required, but space is limited.
Dances of Galánta
2.30pm - 3.30pm
Main Stage
BBC Philharmonic
Anja Bihlmaier conductor
Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Bernstein Three Dance Episodes
Coleridge-Taylor Ballade
Kodaly Dances of Galánta
Anja Bihlmaier returns to the theme of dance with Bernstein’s music from On the Town, its jazzy melodies accompanying sailors on leave in 1940s New York. The upbeat mood is continued with Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, a playful ode to the pleasures of waking up on a Spring morning. The energetic pace is sustained in Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade with its lush, sweeping romantic orchestration. The concert ends with the Hungarian folk music-inspired Dances of Galánta by Kodaly.
Hallé Ancoats Community Choir
3.30pm - 4pm
Barbirolli Room
Come along and hear our fantastic community choir! We’ll be singing a collection of folk tunes, traditional songs, gospel pieces and original compositions.
The Ancoats Community choir is directed by Stuart Overington and Matthew Roughley and is based in the Hallé’s home in Ancoats, Hallé St Peter’s. It offers anyone the chance to come together and sing in a relaxed and joyous group.
This will be a free performance in the Barbirolli Room. Tickets are not required, but space is limited.
RNCM Bassically Quartet
4.45pm - 5.15pm
Stalls Foyer
Marcus De Oliveira F Da Silva
Joana Moura
Marcelo Nunes Rodrigues
Saulo Da Silva Martins
Gustav Mahler arr Božo Paradžik Symphony No 2
IV. Urllicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht
Heitor Villa-Lobos arr Neto Bellotto O Trenzinho do Caipira
Pixinguinha arr Adail Fernandes Carinhoso
Ernst Mahle Quarteto para Contrabaixos (extracts)
Adam Gorb Do you Remember?
Formed by four musicians from Brazil, the ‘Bassically Quartet’ aims to explore the double bass in its extremes, from the very low bass lines to the virtuosic and soloistic passages in the higher registers. All four members are students of Jiří Hudec at the RNCM and over the past year have also regularly joined the various leading professional orchestras in the UK as section freelancers.
This is a free performance in the stalls foyer.
The Rite of Spring
5.30pm - 6.30pm
Main Stage
The Hallé
Delyana Lazarova conductor
Thomas Adès Dawn
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky’s cataclysmic ballet The Rite of Spring, he explained was ‘unified by a single idea: the mystery and great surge of the creative power of spring’. The orchestral score, with its high pitched woodwind and irregular, pounding rhythms, combined with the strange, jaunty movements of the dancers were considered outrageous at its 1913 premiere and resulted in a riotous outcry from the audience. Now, the piece is rightfully considered a masterpiece. It changed the musical landscape forever with its use of rhythms as a central focus, and is performed regularly by orchestras around the world.
Today’s concert is being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 5.30pm. It will be available for 30 days after broadcast via BBC Sounds, where you can also find podcasts and music mixes.