HALLÉ
HALLÉ
Sunday 13th October, 7.30pm, Hall One
When the 19-year old student Dmitri Shostakovich handed in the score for his first symphony in 1925, his tutors were stunned. Shostakovich’ s dramatic, impulsive and strident work seemed to combine Tchaikovsky’ s emotional fervour, Prokofiev’ s playful joie de vivre and Scriabin’ s intense heat. Rory Macdonald and the Hallé perform Shostakovich’ s eye-widening first symphony alongside Rachmaninov’ s devious dance after Paganini and Britten’ s monumental celebration of the orchestra.
With a pre-concert talk Buses from Alnwick and Hexham. Tickets: £ 13- £ 36
Britten The Young Person’ s Guide to the Orchestra
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor
Conductor: Rory Macdonald
Piano: Andrew Tyson Hallé
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