Name: The Hallé In Sheffield
Start: 2024-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Hall

Admin

Hallé Orchestra

Conductor

Mark Elder

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Stephen Hough

Piano

The Hallé In Sheffield

Sheffield

United Kingdom

City Hall

Public

Concert

Scherzo capriccioso, Op.66

Piano Concerto (''The World of Yesterday'')

A Shropshire Lad

Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

For his final concert in Sheffield as Hallé Music Director, Sir Mark Elder acknowledges a core Hallé tradition; both old and new English music. In this true flagship programme, he is joined, as he was in his first season as the Hallé’s Music Director, by Sir Stephen Hough, an undisputed 'keyboard colossus' (The Guardian). Here, they collaborate on the European premiere of Sir Stephen’s Piano Concerto, which he describes as having ‘a large splash of romantic bravura … Think a cocktail of Korngold, Ginistera, Walton, Barber – but none of them exact.’ Acknowledging a core Hallé tradition, English music, both new and old, has been a key strand of Sir Mark’s programming as the second half bears witness. Butterworth’s orchestral rhapsody A Shropshire Lad is his heartfelt postlude to his songs setting A.E. Housman’s poems and Elgar’s Enigma Variations, his masterly vignettes of his ‘friends pictured within’, a work that encapsulates Sir Mark’s magnificent legacy with the Hallé.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble