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Halle - Colin Currie - 28 November 2024

The Hallé - Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

Thursday 28 November 2024 7.30pm

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Event Timings
Pre-Concert Performance in the Stalls Foyer (Chetham’s Students with Colin Currie): 6.30pm
Auditorium Doors: 7.00pm
Concert Start: 7.30pm
Interval: 8.15pm
Finish: 9.25pm

All timings are approximate and are subject to change.​

The Hallé - Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

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Kahchun Wong Conductor
Colin Currie Percussion

Arnold Four Scottish Dances
James Macmillan Veni, Veni Emmanuel Percussion Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.7

Composed towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony possesses a triumphant, bordering on boisterous, sense of ‘a return to life’.

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is filled with stirring dance rhythms and magnificent dynamic colour; the score calls for the first recorded use of fff (fortississimo: louder than fortissimo, as loud as possible). It has also been featured extensively in popular culture: for example, its second movement provides the background music to King George VI’s stirring World War II speech in The King’s Speech (2010).

Preceding the symphony, Kahchun Wong will conduct Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances, evocative of traditional Scottish folk tunes. Colin Currie, ‘at the summit of percussion performance today’ (Gramophone), will join the platform to play in James MacMillan’s celebrated Veni, veni Emmanuel, a percussion concerto that proved to be the composer’s breakthrough work.

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