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Sir Mark Elder conducts The Hallé Orchestra in music by Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Elena Langer and Vaughan Williams.

This lively programme starts with Stravinsky’s Concerto for piano and winds in which he looked back to Bach. Sir Mark describes the outer movements as having ‘such fun with plenty of cut and thrust’ and a slow middle movement of ‘intimacy and tenderness’. Steven Osborne gained critical plaudits for his recording of the work and the Hallé is delighted he’s coming back to perform it. It’s followed by Till Eulenspiegel, Richard Strauss’s virtuoso symphonic poem vividly recounting the hero’s ‘merry pranks.’ Elena Langer’s colourful and immediate music follows with her concert suite from her lauded opera Figaro gets a Divorce. Continuing the Vaughan Williams symphonic cycle, Sir Mark conducts the witty Eighth Symphony which was premiered by the Hallé under Barbirolli with the composer inscribing the dedication to ‘Glorious John’.

7.30pm
Stravinsky - Concerto for piano and wind instruments
R. Strauss - Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Steven Osborne (piano)
The Hallé
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

c. 8.20pm INTERVAL music

Vaughan Williams - 4 Poems of Fredegond Shove
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)

Elena Langer - Two Cats Songs
Anna Dennis (soprano)
Kristine Blaumane (cello)
Katya Apekisheva (piano)

c. 8.40pm
Elena Langer - Figaro gets a Divorce
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.8
The Hallé
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney