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Halle Orchestra

Fri 10 May View Venues, Dates & Times

One of the UK’s top symphonic ensembles, the Manchester-based Halle are admired around the world for their extensive orchestral repertoire. 

This Coventry appearance sees Sir Mark Elder (pictured) - whose tenure as music director is drawing to a close after nearly a quarter of a century - lead the orchestra in a programme that includes two compositions with Midlands connections... 

A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody For Orchestra, by George Butterworth, is based on the poetry of AE Housman, who was born in Worcestershire... Enigma Variations, meanwhile, is the work of another famous Worcestershire creative: Sir Edward Elgar...

Completing the Halle’s Warwick Arts Centre programme is Brahms’ monumental First Piano Concerto, here played by Sir Stephen Hough.    

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