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The Hallé – Thomas Adès Conducts...

Thomas Adès conductor/artist-in-residence

Thursday 26 October 2023 7.30pm

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Event Timings
Pre-concert event: 6.30pm in the Auditorium
Join us for a performance from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) Chamber Choir led by Stuart Overington
Concert Start: 7:30pm
Interval: 8.10pm
Concert End: 9.30pm

Timings will be updated closer to the concert date. Please check the website on the afternoon of the performance for up-to-date information. All timings are approximate and are subject to change.

The Hallé – Thomas Adès Conducts...

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Thomas Adès conductor/artist-in-residence
Anthony Marwood violin

Thomas Adès Tower for Frank Gehry UK premiere
William Marsey Man With Limp Wrist World premiere
Thomas Adès Märchentänze
Thomas Adès Purgatorio UK concert premiere
Janáček Sinfonietta

Thomas Adès begins his two-year Hallé residency in a blaze of glory with the UK premiere of Tower for Frank Gehry. Scored for 14 trumpets, this brisk fanfare was written to mark the opening of Luma Arles, an artistic hub tower designed by architect Frank Gehry. As a champion for young composers, Adès requested the LA Philharmonic commission William Marsey – the result is his Man With Limp Wrist for wind and brass. Adès’ shimmering, translucent Märchentänze reunites the composer with violinist Anthony Marwood. Drawing on English folk sources, its third movement conjures an ecstatic exaltation of skylarks. In the final first of the evening, Adès will conduct the UK concert premiere of Purgatorio, from his critically acclaimed ballet Dante, before closing with a work he greatly admires, Janáček’s colossal Sinfonietta.

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