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Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints doom with Helseth’s gleaming trumpet

Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Receiving its UK premiere in a programme with Britten and Walton, Nico Muhly’s trumpet concerto is inspired by the instrument’s biblical – sometimes apocalyptic – associations

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Hallé: Huw Watkins album review – Covid-era commissions capture energy and hope after lockdown

Watkins’s symphony, fanfare and concerto make for a spirited showcase of the orchestra’s clean harmonies

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Hallé/Shields/Adams: John Adams festival review – dynamism that could generate electricity

Adams himself praised the orchestra for giving ‘one of the best performances I’ve ever heard’ of his Chamber Symphony, part of a four-concert feast of his luminous timbral combinations and expansive orchestral beauty

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New heights, fond farewells and daring acrobatics – the year in classical music

It was a thrilling year with glittering new works, an electrifying Proms season, Puccini in a laundry and Britten on a trapeze

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Hallé/Wong review – new chapter begins with muted Mahler

Kahchun Wong starts his tenure as the Manchester orchestra’s principal conductor with Mahler’s first and a suite from Britten’s Prince of the Pagodas

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

First Night fireworks with Elim Chan and co, a triumphant farewell from Mark Elder, and a ravishing love triangle kicked off a re-energised Proms

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

Mark Elder has led the Hallé for 24 years, championing the company’s choirs, in great voice here in a striking James MacMillan work, and bringing cerebral discipline and striking emotional truth to Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

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James Loughran obituary

Conductor who won the inaugural Philharmonia competition and recorded Brahms with the Hallé and Beethoven with the London Symphony Orchestra

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

These performances are as fine as any currently available on disc, and a testament to the deep musical relationship that Mark Elder’s has built over 24 years as director of the Hallé

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

Stephen Hough’s new, nostalgia-themed work enjoyed its European debut with Mark Elder and the Hallé very much on form in their final months together

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Hallé/Adès review – an exhilarating and magnificent partnership

The Hallé’s playing was triumphant as Thomas Adès oversaw a challenging programme including a rare Tippett masterpiece and new work from Oliver Leith, while the conductor’s own piece was an immense statement

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BBCSO/Kahchun Wong review – hints of musical adventure to come

The Singaporean conductor, soon to head the Hallé, chose a Shostakovich symphony for his London debut, along with two Japanese pieces forming a timely tribute to the late Seiji Ozawa

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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

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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

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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

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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

Manchester Evening News

Don't miss Jurassic Park in Concert - the spectacular performance 65 million years in the making

Tickets to the thrilling performance are on sale from Friday, April 21

Manchester Evening News

You can watch Jurassic Park with a full orchestra at new arena shows

The hit dinosaur movie will roar to life in a spectacular way at the newly-announced arena shows

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Jurassic Park In Concert coming to Liverpool M&S Bank Arena this October

Tickets go on sale this Friday

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Hallé/Wigglesworth review – British composer debuts an outstanding Magnificat

Ryan Wigglesworth composes a finessed Monteverdi Magnificat with the elegant, expansive assistance of wife and soprano Sophie Bevan and a virtuosic choir

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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

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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

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Bluedot festival review – Björk shines brightest of all the stars at the observatory

An impassioned set from the Icelandic musician, performing with the Hallé orchestra, crowns a unique weekend of music in the shadow of the Lovell radio telescope

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Hallé/Elder review – Elder’s measured passion unleashes Mahler’s magic

Mahler’s huge Third Symphony marked a triumphant opening of the Hallé’s spring season

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