Victoria Hall, Hanley

Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah isn’t so much an oratorio as a national institution. From ‘Ev’ry Valley’ to ‘For Unto Us a Child is Born’ and of course the ‘Hallelujah Chorus, everyone knows at least some of the tunes. However, to hear the whole thing performed live is one of the most uplifting things in all music. […]

The Hallé’s annual Viennese concert will carry you away to Vienna without even leaving the city! Stephen Bell will bring you many of your favourite melodies. Conductor - Stephen Bell Soloist - Soraya Mafi SUPPÉ Morning Noon and Night in Vienna ZELLER Roses in Tyrol* STRAUSS Napolean March Op. 156 ADAM Air de Coraline* STRAUSS […]

Rossini’s exciting William Tell Overture, will be a complete contrast to Elisabeth Brauss’ interpretation of the smouldering passions and rapid fire wit of Ravel’s G Major Piano Concerto. ‘With passion and desire’ wrote Tchaikovsky on the score of his Fifth Symphony…some of the most heartfelt and tuneful music he ever wrote. Conductor - Adam Hickox […]

Tom Borrow stays over from his Piano Master’s recital the previous day, to play Tchaikovsky’s first Piano Concerto and you can enjoy some simply glorious tunes! When Johannes Brahms wrote his final symphony he started with a sigh and finished with a tempest….one of classical music’s most stirring, spiritual journeys. Conductor - Euan Shields Soloist […]

One of Debussy’s best loved musical pictures sets the mood as his faun dreams wonderous dreams. There is no better counterpart to this than Dvorak’s ardent and ever popular Cello Concerto. Mozart’s wonderful ‘Prague’ symphony completes what will be an unforgettable evening! Conductor - Lucie LeGuay Soloist - Senja Rummukainen DEBUSSY L’ après-midi d’un faune […]

Berlioz’ Roman Carnival carries us to beautiful Italy where Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony dances a wild tarantella under the sun! When violinist Zoe Beyers teams up with cellist Peter Dixon in the ‘Brahms Double’, you know that things are about to become emotional. A wonderful concert awaits at our season’s finale….. Conductor - Daniel Bjarnason Soloist […]