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Monday - Sarah Walker

Essential Classics With Sarah Walker. Including Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony (excerpt).

Halle - Sibelius, Bartok, Beethoven

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Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Presented by Stuart Flinders

A concert given by the Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder in which they are joined by Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider in a performance of Bartok's 2nd Violin Concerto. The concert opens with Sibelius's dark tone poem The Bard, and it concludes with the work Wagner described as 'the apotheosis of the dance', Beethoven's 7th Symphony.

Sibelius: The Bard
Bartók: Violin Concerto No.2

8.20pm Interval music.

8.40pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major.

The Hallé,
Nikolaj Znaider (violin),
Sir Mark Elder (conductor).

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