The Halle

Tue 5 Oct 2010 8pm

Butterworth Hall: £11, £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27), £32 (£30), £35 (£33)

Conductor: Sir Mark Elder

Musicians: Piano: Artur Pizarro

Win The Hallé‘s English Landscapes CD

Bax – Tintagel
Chopin – Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21
Interval
Dvorák – Symphony No.7 in D minor

We are delighted to open our 2010-2011 season with the award-winning Hallé under the direction of their Music Director, Sir Mark Elder.

The centrepiece of this concert is Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto. A fitting celebration of the composer’s bicentenary year, soloist Artur Pizarro has received high praise for his recordings of Chopin’s Piano Sonatas: “with the fine natural recorded sound we could very well have the Chopin release of the year” (Pianist Magazine).

Dvorák’s intense and beautiful Seventh Symphony with its elegiac slow movement, lilting scherzo and thrilling finale, has been compared to Brahms in its emotional turbulence.

Bax’s dramatic tone poem, Tintagel, evocatively paints a musical picture inspired by the castle-crowned cliffs of Cornwall to open this magical concert. LISTEN to a short introduction, plus an extract from this beautiful piece by clicking on the DOWNLOAD below.

Pre-Concert Talk
Conference Room 6.45pm
Tickets £2, Subscribers £1
A talk with members of The Hallé.

Butterworth Hall

With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .