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WELCOME TO OUR FIRST DIGITAL CONCERT OF THE 2022 SPRING SEASON During the darkest days of lockdown in 2020, when concert halls were closed to audiences, the Hallé reacted positively and produced a number of films which brought its music to our many audiences. Critically acclaimed and watched by tens of thousands of you, not just in Manchester but across the world, this led to creation of our first ever Digital concert season in 2021. Building on this success, we are thrilled to be able to offer this Spring Digital Season with three films, which sit alongside our live 2022 spring season. The films are both for our worldwide audience who cannot attend our concerts but also for existing audiences as a complement to the live concerts – where through the digital medium, people can get closer to the music and performers from the comfort of your own home or even whilst you are out and about on tablets and smartphones. For this opening film, Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé return to a work with which we are inextricably linked, Elgar’s First Symphony. Premiered by the orchestra in 1908 under the direction of Hans Richter, Elgar dedicated it with the inscription ‘true artist and true friend’. We are excited to welcome violinist Baiba Skride for Sofia Gubaidulina’s dramatic and powerful Offertorium, a major work we chose to celebrate the composer’s 90th birthday. The concert opens with music that evokes the descent of the Holy Grail from Heaven; Wagner’s Prelude to Act 1 from his fairy-tale opera Lohengrin. These three films have been made possible due to the generous sponsorship of Siemens, so a huge thank you from all of us at the Hallé for their enlightened support. And, above all, thank you so much for purchasing this film and on behalf of Sir Mark and the orchestra, we hope you enjoy this feast of music.
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FROM WEDNESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2022 FILMED IN THE BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER
ELGAR’S SYMPHONY NO.1 Wagner Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I Sofia Gubaidulina Offertorium Elgar Symphony No.1 Sir Mark Elder conductor • Baiba Skride violin
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RICHARD WAGNER (1813–1883)
Wagner wrote the text and music of Lohengrin, described as ‘a romantic opera in three acts’, between 1845 and 1848. It was first performed under Franz Liszt in Weimar in August 1850; the composer, by now exiled from Germany for his part in the uprising in Dresden the previous year, was unable to be present. Although it was for many years the most frequently performed of Wagner’s stage works, the opera was revolutionary for its time, with few set-piece arias and some early examples of the Leitmotiv (leading motif), a recurring theme consistently associated with a particular character, object or idea. The orchestration, for unusually large forces, is highly original, and ranges from the ethereal to the astonishingly powerful. The story of Lohengrin, adapted by Wagner from various retellings of a medieval legend, is set in and around 10th-century Antwerp. Elsa of Brabant is falsely accused of having murdered her brother, the heir to the dukedom, and calls to her aid a knightly champion of whom she has dreamt. He appears (arriving aboard a boat magically drawn by a swan), defeats her accuser in combat and offers to marry her – on the one condition that she must never ask who he is or where he comes from. When Elsa is tricked into asking him his secret, he reveals that he is Lohengrin, one of the knights who guard the Holy Grail, and that, now his anonymity has been breached, he must return to the castle of Monsalvat.
THE MUSIC The Prelude to Act I is a representation of the Holy Grail – the sacred vessel that held Christ’s blood at the Crucifixion – being carried by a host of angels as it gradually materialises, Wagner said, ‘out of the clear blue ether’. This picture is wonderfully conveyed by the scoring, with high, much-divided violins at the beginning and end, and a noble climax led by the brass. Programme note © Anthony Burton Anthony Burton is a former BBC Radio 3 producer and presenter, now a freelance writer. He edited the Associated Board Performer’s Guides, reviews CDs regularly for ‘BBC Music Magazine’ and has written programme notes on thousands of works of all periods.
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Wagner (1861) Pierre Petit, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
LOHENGRIN (1845–48): PRELUDE TO ACT I
PASSING NOTE ‘Papa told her about a Lohengrin performance. It was just before his first entrance. He was ready to step into the boat, which, drawn by a swan, was to take him on-stage. Somehow the stagehand on the other side got his signals mixed, started pulling, and the swan left without Papa. He quietly turned around and said: “What time’s the next swan?” That story has since become a classic in operatic lore.’ The Austrian-born Hollywood character actor Walter Slezak recalling an anecdote told by his father, the famous Wagnerian tenor Leo Slezak, in his 1962 book What Time’s the Next Swan?
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SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (b. 1931)
Coming from the predominantly Islamic region of Tatarstan, Sofia Gubaidulina gained a dual heritage from her parents: Russian and Tatar, Orthodox and Muslim (though her father was not religious), central and peripheral, Western and Eastern. Perhaps it was a lot to absorb, for she was slow to get going as a composer. She was 30 by the time she produced her first notable piece, her now much-performed Chaconne for piano, and nearly 60 before her name was known at all outside Russia. Since then, she has more than made up, producing, in startlingly rapid succession, scores that confront the conventional with the exotic, even bizarre, and that dare unhesitatingly to take on weighty matters of life and belief. Her violin concerto Offertorium, dating from the first years of her international breakthrough, may be her greatest achievement. She composed it for Gidon Kremer, who gave the first performance, with Leif Segerstam conducting, in Vienna on 30 May 1981; the final version, adding revisions of 1982 and 1986 to the original 1980 score, followed in London in November 1986, again with Kremer as soloist, but now with Gennady Rozhdestvensky on the podium. A recording, made by Kremer in Boston in April 1988, took the piece around the globe. It was a good place for the world to start discovering the composer.
THE MUSIC As the title, ‘Offering’, might indicate, this is a concerto that embodies a sacred drama to do with sacrifice and regeneration. Moreover, what is offered up comes from Gubaidulina’s revered Bach – from his own Musical Offering (BWV 1079), based on a knotty melody said to have been given to him by Frederick the Great when, in 1747, Bach visited the Prussian king’s court. In Gubaidulina’s score this theme is first heard in the orchestration made by Anton Webern in the 1930s, so that Offertorium focuses on its distant origins by means of the nearer past. Before, however, this nearer past can end – before, that is, the theme reaches its last note, D – it is taken over by the solo violin, which repeats the immediately preceding notes, F–E. They thus become the subject of a fantasy on the minor second, mostly for the soloist with strings and
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Sofia Gubaidulina by Dmitri N. Smirnov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
OFFERTORIUM (1980, REV. 1982/1986)
percussion. When the piano steps in, with harps in tow, it is to widen the omnipresent interval by one, two or three octaves. The soloist follows suit, whereupon the Bach theme returns, its Webernised form now also Gubaidulinised. Not only is the instrumentation subtly altered, but the line has this time lost a note at the beginning as well as a further one at the end, so that it now concludes G–F. That gives the soloist a further interval with which to play, the major second, and the violin duly adds this to its store for a further sequence, now first with twinkling tuned percussion (celesta, vibraphone, marimba) and harps, then briefly with strings, before a trumpet leads the wind department into prominence. The third appearance of the Bach theme, which follows, is radically different. Played by the strings in diverse octaves, with brass and (on one occasion) woodwind support, it sounds more like Messiaen than either Bach or Webern. Moreover, it has lost another note at the start and another at the end – though one might well sense that more is gone, since the rhythm, too, is transformed, and the last few notes go at a rush in the bass. Nominally, though, the final notes are D–G, so that the ensuing development can feature fourths and fifths as well as seconds. This passage is started by the soloist alone, in the bottom register. By now the theme has yielded all it can, for its second half contains nothing other than seconds and fourths, such as have already been brought out. Perhaps for that reason, it does not come again in any recognisable form. The offering has been made. What proceeds around it – the sacrificial fire, perhaps, in the form of music for violin with changing orchestral groups – continues unabated, referring to scraps of the Bach theme, burning them up, until, after a huge climax triggered by yelps from horns and trombones, the soloist has a long unaccompanied cadenza. This takes us up to the halfway mark in the work’s 40-minute extent. When the orchestra returns, it is to join the violin in a slow movement that blends into a scherzo, the former with solos from woodwinds, viola and cello, the latter tending to set the soloist in opposition to large orchestral masses. There is another, shorter, cadenza for the soloist here, followed by a sweeping descent into the orchestral depths. At this point, having been silent a while, the violin begins a hymn, in which it is supported by the strings, with punctuation from piano, harps and percussion, joined later by woodwind soloists. The hymn rises and rises, up to the moment where a figure – a rising minor second – brings back memories of the Bach theme. The soloist muses on these alone, and the orchestra comes back for one last sweeping gesture. Despair, however, is out of place. The solo violin has arrived, finally, at the long awaited D, in a super-high register. Programme note © Paul Griffiths Paul Griffiths is an authority on 20th- and 21st-century music, whose books include ‘A Concise History of Western Music’, ‘The New Penguin Dictionary of Music’ and ‘Modern Music and After’. He also writes novels and librettos.
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PASSING NOTE In 1738 Bach’s third son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, was appointed court cembalist to King Frederick the Great of Prussia. Nine years later, when Bach travelled to Potsdam to see his son, the king, who was himself an accomplished flautist, amateur composer and musical connoisseur, was keen to show ‘old Bach’ his collection of fortepianos, at that time the latest keyboard novelty. Knowing the Thomaskantor’s fabled skills as an improviser, he also presented Bach with a complex musical theme, supposedly of his own devising, and challenged him to sit down at one of his fortepianos and improvise a three-voice fugue upon it. This was apparently accomplished so successfully that Frederick then challenged Bach to improvise a six-voice fugue on the same theme – at which point Bach’s inspiration seemingly gave out and he begged the king’s permission to work on the fugue back home in Leipzig. Two months later Bach published the collection of 13 pieces now known as the Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering), but to which the composer actually gave the Latin title Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta (By command of the king, the theme and the rest worked out in canonic style), an acrostic cipher whose first letters spell out the Italian word ricercar (meaning ‘to seek out’), which was then an alternative name for a fugue but surely also a challenge to seek out the ‘thema regium’ (royal theme) beneath all the many layers of variation in which Bach had clothed it. Interestingly, Arnold Schoenberg, in his 1950 essay on Bach, came up with the bizarrely Freudian suggestion that this was in fact a case of the kaiser’s new clothes, and that it was actually Bach’s son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, who had devised the theme, not the king, in an effort to publicly embarrass his dad.
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EDWARD ELGAR (1857–1934)
SYMPHONY NO.1 IN A FLAT MAJOR, OP.55 (1907–08) 1 Andante: nobilmente e semplice – Allegro 2 Allegro molto – 3 Adagio 4 Lento – Allegro
Elgar began to compose his First Symphony in June 1907, the month of his 50th birthday. On 27 June his wife wrote in her diary that she heard him playing ‘a great beautiful tune’, the march-like motto theme that opens the symphony. But four months later he was at work on a string quartet that he had promised to Manchester’s Brodsky Quartet and he continued to compose it when he and his wife went to Rome in November. By early December he had switched back to the symphony. Surviving sketches show that the end of the second movement and the start of the next were conceived as music for the abandoned quartet. Elgar stayed in Rome until May 1908, sketching the first movement there. He completed the symphony in a prolonged burst of activity between June and September. Keeping a promise he had made in 1901, he dedicated it to the Austro-Hungarian conductor Hans Richter, ‘true artist and true friend’. Richter, who became the Hallé’s conductor in October 1899, had conducted the first performance of the Enigma Variations in June 1899 and The Dream of Gerontius in October 1900. He conducted the first performance of the new symphony at a Hallé concert in the Free Trade Hall on 3 December 1908. Although the hall was far from full because of a dense fog, the audience’s enthusiasm was tremendous. They applauded so excitedly at the end of the slow movement that Richter beckoned Elgar onto the platform. In London four days later, when Richter conducted the symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra, the reception was even more demonstrative. A. J. Jaeger (‘Nimrod’ of the Enigma Variations) told Elgar that the slow movement was worthy of Beethoven, while Richter called the work ‘the greatest symphony of modern times’. He repeated it with the Hallé on 4 March 1909 and again the following October. In the first year of its existence it was performed 82 times throughout the world, 18 in London alone. At the Hallé’s centenary concert on 30 January 1958 Sir John Barbirolli chose the symphony as the culmination of the evening.
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THE MUSIC
Edward Elgar, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A drum-roll introduces the march-like theme in A flat that is to haunt the whole symphony. It is played quietly at first, and dolce (sweetly), then more fully and more loudly. It fades into an allegro section in D minor, beginning restlessly but changing later to a more tender mood, as
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three new themes form the second-subject group. Efforts by the motto theme to reassert its dominance are fiercely rebuffed, but it reappears on violins and violas and gradually swamps the whole orchestra. The scurrying principal theme of the second movement (Allegro molto) is the motto theme reversed. It is brilliantly orchestrated, as is the haunting middle section which, with its elusive sense of airiness and nostalgia, Elgar told orchestras should be played ‘like something you hear down by the river’. A comparison of its atmosphere to the wind in the reeds on the River Severn at Worcester, near where he was born, is not merely fanciful. The movement slows down and slides almost imperceptibly into the rapt D major of the glorious Adagio. This theme is note-for-note that of the main theme of the second movement but the transformation is total; the heart of Elgar, it needs no analysis. To those who love his music, its capacity as a source of solace here seems limitless and the final bars, with the clarinet’s gentle farewell, are a distillation of the tender side of the composer. The final movement reverts to the struggles of the first. It begins stealthily and almost ominously, its march-like theme being followed by snatches of the motto theme swirling about on woodwind. But this mood is dispelled and the hesitant principal theme is expanded into a glorious tune for the strings. Eventually the motto theme, glitteringly scored, returns but its final victory is hard won, as is underlined by efforts to disrupt its rhythm by strongly accented syncopation. Attempts were made to give the work an extra-musical programme but Elgar said it had none ‘beyond a wide experience of human life with a great charity (love) and a massive hope in the future’. It was, as we can tell now, an attempt by Elgar to reconcile the contradictory elements in his own nature. He told another friend that it was ‘a reflex or picture or elucidation’ of his life and to another he confided, ‘I am really alone in this music’. Programme note © Michael Kennedy Michael Kennedy (1926–2014) was for many years music critic of the ‘Sunday Telegraph’ and a regular contributor to ‘Opera’ magazine. He was the author of the ‘Oxford Dictionary of Music’ and wrote biographies of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Walton, Mahler and Richard Strauss, as well as two histories of the Hallé.
PASSING NOTE ‘The essentials of the symphony-form are not barren formalism, but are based on the unalterable logic of human expression. … I hold that the symphony without a programme is the highest development of art. … It seems to me that because the greatest genius of our days, Richard Strauss, recognises the symphonic-poem as a fit vehicle for his splendid achievements, some writers are inclined to be positive that the symphony is dead … but, when the looked-for genius comes, it may be absolutely revived.’ Edward Elgar, from a lecture given at the University of Birmingham in December 1905, two years before he began his own First Symphony
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THE NEXT CONCERT IN OUR DIGITAL SEASON FROM WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH
WALTON’S CELLO CONCERTO Lera Auerbach Icarus Walton Cello Concerto Copland Symphony No.3
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Gemma New conductor • Laura van der Heijden cello New Zealand-born Gemma New, a first-time Hallé guest, has been making waves in the USA as a rising star. Lera Auerbach was enthralled from childhood by Ancient Greek mythology. The character of her work, Icarus, personifies the tragic tale of the hero’s ill-fated flight. Walton’s Cello Concerto combines distinguishing aspects of his music – bitter-sweet melancholy and vigorous energy. It’s performed by Laura van der Heijden, who won the 2012 BBC Young Musician of the Year playing this concerto. Copland’s Third Symphony has a euphoric optimism, especially its finale based on his celebrated Fanfare for the Common Man. After the premiere, the conductor Koussevitzky declared, ‘This is the greatest American Symphony. It goes from the heart to the heart’.
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SIR MARK ELDER CONDUCTOR
Sir Mark Elder has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was Music Director of English National Opera (1979–93), Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1992–95) and Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic
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Orchestra in the USA (1989–94). He is a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and has also been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Mozart Players. He has worked with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared almost every year at the BBC Proms since 1975, including on the internationally televised Last Nights in 1987 and 2006, and with the Hallé every year since 2003. He works regularly in the major international opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opéra, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Glyndebourne. He was the first English conductor of a new production at Bayreuth and has also guest-conducted in Amsterdam, Berlin, Bregenz, Geneva, Munich and Zurich. His large discography ranges from Verdi, Strauss and Wagner to contemporary music. Among his many acclaimed releases on the Hallé’s own CD label are Gramophone Awardwinning recordings of The Dream of Gerontius, Götterdämmerung and Elgar’s Violin Concerto, while The Apostles was voted BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Year 2013; the recent release of Siegfried completed the Hallé’s Ring cycle on disc. As Artistic Director of Opera Rara (2012–19), his recordings included a multi-award-winning release of Donizetti’s Les Martyrs and an International Opera Award-winning set of Rossini’s Semiramide. He has presented TV programmes on the life and music of Verdi for the BBC and on Donizetti for German TV, co-presented BBC Four’s four-part series Symphony, fronted BBC Two’s Maestro at the Opera and, in 2015, presented BBC Four’s Sunday-evening series of symphony performances from the Proms. Alongside his commitment to the Hallé, recent and future concert engagements include the Cincinnati, London, Pittsburgh and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington DC), Bergen, London, Netherlands Radio and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome). Operatic engagements include Tannhäuser and La bohème at the Paris Opéra, Benvenuto Cellini for Netherlands Opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for San Francisco Opera, Billy Budd, Falstaff and La traviata for Glyndebourne, Wozzeck, Fidelio, Il barbiere di Siviglia and L’Étoile for Covent Garden, and concert performances of Parsifal at the Proms with the Hallé and Lohengrin with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (both recorded live for CD). He opened the 2018–19 Met season with a new production of Samson et Dalila and returns to Covent Garden in 2022 for a new production of Peter Grimes. Sir Mark Elder was appointed a Companion of Honour in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours, knighted in 2008 and awarded the CBE in 1989. He won an Olivier Award in 1991 for his work at ENO and in 2006 was named Conductor of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society, of which he is now also an Honorary Member.
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BAIBA SKRIDE VIOLIN
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Baiba Skride was born into a musical Latvian family in Riga, where she began her studies, transferring in 1995 to the Rostock Conservatory. In 2001 she won First Prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Since then the list of orchestras with whom she has worked includes the Bavarian Radio, Boston, Chicago, London, NHK, Shanghai and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, the Berlin, New York, Oslo and Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus and Orchestre de Paris. Notable conductors with whom she collaborates include Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Edward Gardner, Susanna Mälkki, Andris Nelsons, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Andris Poga, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Tugan Sokhiev, John Storgårds, Juraj Valcuha and Kazuki Yamada. In celebration of Sofia Gubaidulina’s 90th birthday this season, Baiba Skride is playing Offertorium not just with the Hallé tonight, but also with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, whose season she opened with Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto (alongside cellist Harriet Krijgh and bajan player Martynas Levickis); in addition she performs the composer’s third violin concerto, Dialog: Ich und Du, with the hr-Sinfonieorchester. Other highlights of this season include return visits to orchestras including the Antwerp, Boston, Gothenburg, RTÉ National, Singapore and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Residentie Orchestra (The Hague). A sought-after chamber musician, Baiba Skride plays in a long-established duo with her pianist sister Lauma and is also one of the founding members of the Skride Quartet, with which she has toured North America and Australia and performed at venues in Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris and London. This season she also performs in trio with her sister Lauma and Harriet Krijgh, as well as in different chamber music projects with Alban Gerhardt, Brett Dean and others. Baiba Skride’s extensive discography includes recently released sets of the Mozart concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and of Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.2 and Rhapsodies with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, both conducted by Eivind Aadland, as well as an American disc featuring Bernstein, Korngold and Rózsa with the Gothenburg Symphony and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestras under Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the debut recording of the Skride Quartet, all on the Orfeo label. Her next solo recording will be released in January. Baiba Skride plays the Yfrah Neaman Stradivarius kindly loaned to her by the Neaman family through the Beare’s International Violin Society.
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≥ MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER FIRST VIOLINS
VIOLAS
FLUTES
HORNS
Eva Þórarinsdóttir Tiberiu Buta Zoe Colman Peter Liang Steven Proctor Alison Hunt † Helen Bridges † Nicola Clark † Victor Hayes † Luke Coomber Jess Hall Oliver Baily Emma Rushworth Anna O’Brien Laura Embrey Alexandra Stemp
Timothy Pooley †
Amy Yule
Laurence Rogers †
SECOND VIOLINS
Simon Turner Dale Culliford † Jane Hallett Clare Rowe Jonathan Pether Louis Baily * Robert Wheatley Rebecca Harney Esther Harriott
Marie Schreer Julian Azkoul Paulette Bayley Rosemary Attree Caroline Abbott † Grania Royce † Christine Davey † Elizabeth Bosworth John Purton Eva Petrarca Diego Gabete Yu-Mien Sun Sian Goodwin Robert Adlard
SECTION LEADER
Julian Mottram † Martin Schäfer Piero Gasparini † Robert Criswell † Gemma Dunne † Chris Emerson † Cameron Campbell Cheryl Law Jayne Coyle Alice Billen Victoria Bernath * CELLOS
Nicholas Trygstad SECTION LEADER
DOUBLE BASSES
Billy Cole Daniel Storer Yi Xin Han † Beatrice Schirmer † Rachel Meerloo Natasha Armstrong Louis van der Mespel * Sian Rowley
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SECTION LEADER
Sarah Bennett PICCOLO
Joanne Boddington OBOES
Stéphane Rancourt SECTION LEADER
Virginia Shaw † COR ANGLAIS
Thomas Davey †
SECTION LEADER
Matthew Head Julian Plummer † Richard Bourn † Andrew Maher TRUMPETS
Gareth Small † SECTION. LEADER
Kenneth Brown † Tom Osborne TENOR TROMBONES
CLARINETS
Katy Jones
Sergio Castelló López
Rosalyn Davies †
SECTION LEADER
Rosa CamposFernandez BASS CLARINET
James Muirhead † BASSOONS
Elena Comelli Helen Peller CONTRABASSOON
Simon Davies
SECTION LEADER
BASS TROMBONE
Kyle MacCorquodale TUBA
Ewan Easton mbe TIMPANI
John Abendstern PERCUSSION
David Hext † SECTION LEADER
Jenny Marsden Jan Bradley Emma Crossley Will Renwick Ben Gray HARP
Marie Leenhardt † SECTION LEADER
Eira Lynn Jones CELESTE/PIANO
Gemma Beeson
The Hallé, numbered amongst the world’s top symphonic ensembles, continues to seek ways to enhance and refresh what it undertakes, with aspirations to provide leadership through performance standards, education, understanding and training. 2020–21 saw the Hallé embarking on its very first digital season, featuring 15 critically acclaimed concerts that were shared with audiences around the world. During its 162-year history, the organisation has weathered many storms – from two world wars to financial crises, volcanic ash clouds and now a global pandemic – and not being allowed to work and make music with immediate effect in March 2020 was truly devastating for its passionate players and staff. To be able to return to perform concerts in The Bridgewater Hall in front of live audiences again feels like a true renaissance.. Founded by Sir Charles Hallé in Manchester, the Hallé gave its first concert in the city’s Free Trade Hall on 30 January 1858. Following the death of Sir Charles, the orchestra continued to develop under the guidance of such distinguished figures as Dr Hans Richter, Sir Hamilton Harty, Sir John Barbirolli and Sir Mark Elder. The Hallé has received many awards, notably from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the South Bank Awards, for its work in the concert hall and celebrated collaborations with other orchestras and Manchester organisations. The Hallé has a distinguished history of acclaimed performances, in Manchester and around Britain, as well as televised concerts, frequent radio broadcasts and international tours. Since launching its own recording label in 2003, a number of the Hallé’s recordings have won prestigious awards including five Gramophone Awards, two Diapasons d’Or and a BBC Music Magazine Award. Hallé Connect brings together all the Hallé’s activity away from the formal concert platform. Working across the whole community – from schools to universities, care homes to prisons – to bring music in its broadest terms to those who may not attend the concert hall, the Hallé’s education programmes and family of ensembles celebrate creativity and raise aspirations through very accessible and practical projects. This work continues with digital resources, including Goddess Gaia and Once Upon A Time, both tailored for primary-aged children, and annual GCSE and A-Level set works concerts. The Hallé is a Registered Charity No. 223882
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Without gifts in wills, the Hallé would not be the organisation that it is today: they are simply that important. Whilst gifts vary each year they can be 20% of our fundraising. In the last few years gifts in wills have been used by the Hallé to: • Secure the long-term future of our rehearsal venue, Hallé St Peter’s and the Oglesby Centre; • Subsidise the cost of tickets for school children to come to our flagship Hallé for Youth Concerts in Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham and elsewhere; • Support over 500 participants a year through musical and vocal training in our family of ensembles. Any gift to the Hallé, no matter how large or small, makes a lasting difference. Whatever gift you leave, we promise to use it wisely and effectively. Your gift can be directed to any area of the Hallé’s work. An unspecified gift enables us to put funds to where they are most needed.
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≥ CHAIR ENDOWMENTS The Chair Endowment programme is an opportunity for you to be associated with one of our players and link your name with a position in the orchestra. Your gift will help us to ensure the Hallé continues to develop artistically, attracting and retaining musicians of the highest quality. The key to a successful orchestra is the quality of the individual players. At the Hallé we are fortunate to have some of the country’s most gifted musicians whose talent and commitment help keep the Hallé among the finest orchestras in the world. Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/chair-endowments
MUSIC DIRECTOR, SIR MARK ELDER CH CBE
FIRST VIOLINS SARAH EWINS
SECOND VIOLINS PRINCIPAL
Mr Martin McMillan obe and Mrs Pat McMillan
Elaine and Neville Blond Charitable Trust
Patrick and Tricia McDermott
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, DAVID BUTCHER
TIBERIU BUTA
Karen Farquhar
Dr Anne R Fuller
ROSEMARY ATTREE
Hamish and Sophie Forsyth
ZOE COLMAN
John Geddes
In memory of the late Marie and Jack Levy
PETER LIANG
CAROLINE ABBOTT
Jennifer MacPherson
Peter and Mary Jones
ALISON HUNT
DIEGO GABETE
Mrs Vivienne Blackburn for Michael
In memory of Sidney & Toni Powell
HELEN BRIDGES
JULIA HANSON
Professor Chris Klingenberg
Lou Page
POSITION VACANT
JOHN PURTON
In loving memory of Kaye Tazaki, from his family and the Hallé
In loving memory of Michael Hall
LEADER
Penny Moore GUEST LEADER, PAUL BARRITT
In memory of Geoffrey Robinson ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR, DELYANA LAZAROVA
PZ Cussons, Sir Mark and Lady Elder, The Garrick Charitable Trust, CHORAL DIRECTOR, MATTHEW HAMILTON
In memory of Alison WilkieDavies
PAULETTE BAYLEY
HANNAH SMITH
Patrick and Tricia McDermott
Sincere thanks also to all those who have made general donations to the Chair Endowment programme during the recent months.
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VIOLAS
FLUTES
TRUMPETS
TIMOTHY POOLEY
AMY YULE
GARETH SMALL
Dr Susan M Brown
Mr Peter Heath
Shared Trust
JULIAN MOTTRAM
SARAH BENNETT
KENNETH BROWN
In loving memory of John Pickstone
Bob Spencer
Shared Trust
MARTIN SCHÄFER
PICCOLO
David and Beryl Emery
JOANNE BODDINGTON
PIERO GASPARINI
In memory of Ronald Marlowe
TOM OSBORNE
Mrs Jane Fairclough CHRIS EMERSON
OBOE
Bolton Opus Group
STÉPHANE RANCOURT
CELLOS
sponsored by The Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund
NICHOLAS TRYGSTAD
VIRGINIA SHAW
Martin and Sandra Stone SIMON TURNER
In memory of Mrs G E Whitehead DAVID PETRI
K and S Coen JANE HALLETT
Professor Sir Netar Mallick CLARE ROWE
Nina Harris JONATHAN PETHER
Charlotte Westwood POSITION VACANT
In loving memory of Dorothy Hall DOUBLE BASSES
Alison Wilkinson COR ANGLAIS THOMAS DAVEY
NATASHA ARMSTRONG
John and Pat Garside RACHEL MEERLOO
In loving memory of Hilmary Quarmby, a lifelong lover of music and friend of the Hallé
TIMPANI JOHN ABENDSTERN
In memory of Alan and Vivian Glass
ERIKA ÖHMAN
SERGIO CASTELLÓ LÓPEZ
Mrs R Russell in loving memory of her husband, Jim Russell rba;
The Hallé Choir
DAVID HEXT
Rosemary Whitesman
BASS CLARINET
Shared Trust
HALLÉ YOUTH ORCHESTRA WOODWIND
BASSOONS
BASSOONS
JAMES MUIRHEAD
PRINCIPAL
ELENA COMELLI
In memory of Joyce and Michael Kennedy
Sylvia Kendal in memory of Ivor Rowe
CLARINET
YI XIN HAN
BEATRICE SCHIRMER
KATY JONES
PERCUSSION
Edmundson Electrical Ltd In memory of Stella and Harold Millington
TROMBONE
In loving memory of Douglas Crawford
In memory of Miss Amy Alexandra Morris
BILLY COLE
Penny Moore
A Youth Orchestra Parent; Mr C R and Mrs E Anslow PERCUSSION I & E Brett Karen Brown
Anonymous
STRINGS
CONTRABASSOON SIMON DAVIES
CELLOS
In memory of Alan Fraser
John T. Gorner The Holland-Frickes Mr John Summers obe Anonymous
HORNS
In memory of Arthur Bevan and Enid Roper
HALLÉ YOUTH CHOIR
LAURENCE ROGERS
SOPRANOS AND ALTOS
In memory of C K Andrews
Elizabeth McCullough Mr and Mrs Smith
RICHARD BOURN
Shared Trust MATTHEW HEAD
In loving memory of Nora Dawson
HALLÉ CHOIR
Jane Hampson ALTOS
Chris Hughes
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≥ PATRON PROGRAMME By joining the Hallé Patron programme you can become part of a family of supporters who are helping to shape the future of the Hallé. Patrons have access to unique opportunities to experience many different facets of the Hallé alongside musicians, performers and fellow supporters in recognition of their regular support. The Hallé is very grateful to all our supporters, including those who choose to remain anonymous. Find out more at www.halle.co.uk/become-a-patron CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE John & Margaret Allen Dr Anne R Fuller Pat Kendall-Taylor Professor Chris Klingenberg Patrick & Tricia McDermott David & Mary McKeith Dr & Mrs Ian McKinlay OBE Penny Moore, for Terry, who loved the Hallé Dr Sambrook In memory of Lynne In memory of Alfred & Brenda Burley MAESTOSO Brian & Valerie Bailey Dr Susan M Brown Mr David A Budgett Mr & Mrs J. Davnall Valerie & Peter Dicken Mrs Juliet Gibbs Andrew Hay & Nicola Kitching Mark Kenrick Jennifer MacPherson John Nickson & Simon Rew John & Pat Turner Judi Winterson & David Hoyle
CRESCENDO Mr Jon & Dr Carol Ashley Mr Edward Astle Mr John Biggins Audrey & Richard Binch David & Maggie Blackburn Mrs Vivienne Blackburn Clair Boyes Dr Christopher Brookes Dr & Mrs Michael & Diana Cavanagh Lawrence David Cody & in memory of Mr & Mrs L. J. Cody Mr Julian Craddock Philip Crookall Mr A Fowell Mr & Mrs J. Fox Mr Richard Garnett Chris & Karen Halicki Miss Lynne Hamilton Dr Andrew Hardman Mrs C. A. Harmer Ms Val Hawkin David Haworth Mr John Hopwood & Dr Julia Morrison Chris Hughes, to mark 43 years with the Hallé Choir Mr Kenneth Kay Mr Michael Leach Mr Colin Lomax Sir Charles Nightingale Mrs Kathy Noble Mr John D Owens Mr D Pritchard
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Mr Martin Rayner AC & CJ Riddington T. G. Roberts Mrs Jackie Roberts Mr & Mrs R. J. W. Rogers Judith & Patrick Rutter Sheila Rydz & in memory of Simeon Rydz John & Susan Schultz Mr P D Senn Mr David Shipley Martin & Sandra Stone Mrs E. G. Tonge Mr John Turner Lynne & Derek Waterfield Professor & Mrs Philip Wiles Craig & Margaret Wright David & Veronica Yates In memory of Brenda Owens For Music INTERMEZZO Dr D Yvonne Aplin Michael & Patricia Ash Joan Ball Tony Bates Professor Tony Berry Mr K A Bevan Mrs Margaret Bradshaw Monica & Mick Clark Mr J Cooney Pamela Craig Sarah Crouch Peter J Dawson Mr Anthony Doust
Mr Micheal Dowling Dr George A Eccleston Rev’d & Mrs J F Ellis Charlie Fleischmann Ann Flowerday Jeremy & Gillian French Mr & Mrs R Green Mr John Hannah Mrs Bessie Harper Callum Harvey Mr & Mrs D Hawkes Peter & Audrey Hewer Mr Simon Hutchence Dr K Jeffery Mrs Wendy Jeffs Professor Nicholas & Dr Mary Jones Mr J G Knox Mr & Mrs B H Lawrence Mr & Mrs R W Lee Mel Littler Mr Alan Lowe Mr T Marsden John & Mary McPeake Stephen & Jacqueline Miley Mrs Alison Milford Gordon Minton Miss Maire Morton Malcolm & Morag Ranson Mr Michael Redhead Canon C Roberts Joan & Graham Rogers Dr T & P E Schur Phil Thornley Mrs M Warrener Mr J C White Professor Richard Whitley Mr John Wildman
Joan Wood In memory of Albert Mesrie In memory of Arthur Newton, from his family and friends SCHERZO Gill & Barrie Adams Mr Peter Adamson Mr Timothy R Ades Dr Katherine M Adler Mrs J Ainsworth Mr Roger Ainsworth Vin Allerton Dr P J Alvey Dr Peter Barberis Mr Michael Barley Mrs J E Baxendale Mr Steve Best Mr D J Bird Mr Stuart Bishop Dr Howard Booth Ms Annie Bracken Mr David Bradley Arnold & Brenda Bradshaw Philip Broughton Mr Dean Brown Karen Brown Miss S R Brown Mr Andrew Bryan Peter Burgess Barbara & Anthony Butcher Miss Christine Bywater Miss Christine S Catherall Mrs B Y Chubb Mrs Kathleen Cleary Mrs Gina Collison Mr David Cooke Mr H C Cowen Mrs Frances Critchley Mr John Critchley Hilary & Adrian Curtis TD Mrs J D Darwent Dr D Dawson Dr Jeffery J Dean & Dr Penelope M Gouk Mr & Mrs B A DeSousa Mrs Marie Dixon Ann & Donald Docker Mr Paul Durham Mr E Alan Eaves Miss E Evans David Farrow Dr Larissa Fast
Miss Charlotte Fitzgerald Mr George Fletcher Mr Alan Freeman Dr Tim Gartside Mrs Elaine M Gavin Mr Adrian Gerrard Mrs J Gill Mrs Mary Glynn Mr Christopher Grafham Mr & Mrs S R Lancelyn Green Mrs Caroline Greenwood Mr John D Gregory Dr R Gregory Mr J B Haddow Dr I M Hall Paul & Amanda Hamblyn Mr C W Hampson Mrs Thora Harnden Brian & Bridget Harris Mr Simon Harrison Mrs J M Hartley Mr N V Haynes Mrs Dorothy Heaton Mr Cliff Heckle Donald & Carolyn Henderson Mrs G Hewitt Miss Pauline Hickey Mr & Mrs J M Hill Peter & Charlotte Hill Mrs J M Hindshaw J. E. Hoffmann & B. J. Harrocks Mrs Dorothy Holt Mrs Janet Holwill Dr W Hoyle Mr H Hughes & Mrs F Hughes David Humphries Mrs Glynys Hunter Dr Steven Hurst Joyce Hytner Mr Howard Johnson Mrs Jean Johnson David & Fae Jones Christine & Michael Jones Mr Trefor Jones Miss Brunhilde Kay Lynne & Martin Kemp Ian Leonard Jennifer & Paul Lingwood Mr Harry Lipson Mrs Dorothea Livesey Virginia & Peter Lloyd Mrs A Losse Mr Kevin Lyons
Mr F P S & Mrs D A B Marriott Dr & Mrs P J Marriott Mr P Marsh & Ms H M Bennett Mrs C Mason Dr Michael Mattison Mrs E McCrone Mrs Angela McMenemy Mrs Bernice Meagher Dr David Miers Mr David Milner Mr Jeff Milner Mr Peter Moorhouse Ms Kathleen Morris Miss Jean Motler Mr P K Murphy Mr David Odling Professor Damian O’Doherty William & Janet Ollier Mr John Peaker Dr John Pearson Reverend David Peters David & Elizabeth Pioli Mr Victor Potapczuk Professor James Powell OBE Dr R E Price Mrs Jean Proud Mr D Radley Mr Peter Ramsden Mrs Beryl Ratcliffe Angus & Jenny Reynolds Mr Paul Reynolds David & Elly Roberts Mrs A Rose Mrs Susan Rowlands Professor Michael G Rusbridge Martin & Gail Sanderson John & Jackie Say Mrs Jan Schofield Mr James A Scott Mr Simon Shelbourn Mr C & Mrs T Shepherd Mr Michael Shiels John Shuttleworth Charles & Helen Smith Mr & Mrs C Smith Mr Roger Smith Mr Alan Spier Mr & Mrs R T Stafford Mr Frank Stoner & Mrs Margaret DudleyStoner Mrs Carla Suter Mrs Norma Swan
Mrs M E Thompson Mr John Thomson Mrs Jean Tracy Mrs Jackie Tucker Tom Uprichard Mrs Barbara Upton Mr Peter & the late Mrs Diana van der Feltz Derek Vernon Jeffrey & Judith Wainwright Mr Brian Walker Mr R B Walsh F T Walters Mrs Anne Ward Mr George Watson Mr & Mrs J M Watson John & Christine Weller Mrs Lynn Wharton Mr Peter R White J Christopher Whitehead Mr A Whittaker Gladys Williams & in memory of Dennis Dodge Mr Thomas Williams Mr C F Winter Barry Wood Hilary & the late Noel Woodhead Mrs Ann Woolliscroft Dr J M Worth D & M Wright Dr David Yorke A music lover In memory of my parents In memory of Mr Barry J Ball In memory of Margaret Brailsford In memory of O Calvert In memory of Mr Tom Chadwick In memory of Liz Glynn In memory of D S Goodes In memory of Dr D B Jones In memory of Mrs M McDonald In memory of Patsy Pringle In memory of Dr Barbara Smith In memory of John Wallace Tonge
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ALLEGRO Mrs Brenda Ackroyd Mr Chris Adams & Professor Rosemary Lucas Mr Paul Adkins Ms Seifa Afiesimama Mr Paul Ager Mr Richard Alliss Mohammed Amin Voxra Andersen Mr G Aspey Mrs Barbara Aspin Mrs Barbara Austin Ms Elaine Bagley Mrs P Barlow John Barnard Dr A J Basey Mr Kevin Bates Mr & Mrs Melvyn Bathgate Brenda Beckett J. Begg Ms Rowena Beighton-Dykes Mrs Lois Beldon Miss Janet Benfield Mr P Beresford Mr I C Berridge Mr G N Berry Mr R Berryman Ms Rosemary Betterton Mr David Bimson Mr A Birch Mrs A Birch Mrs Christine Bird Michael S Birkett Mr Robin Bissell Mrs Diane Blackburn Marilyn Booth Marjorie Boothby MBE Mr John M J Bowden Mr Alan Brant Mr Roger Brentnall John Bridgman Mrs Susan Briggs Mr David Britnor Mr & Mrs Andrew BrochwiczLewinski
Ms Patricia Brock Mrs Gwyneth Brown Miss V Brown Mr Ian Brownlee Mr A Budworth Mrs Sarah Bunting Mr & Mrs P Burns Dr Kathy Burton Mrs P. Bushnell Peter Callon Mr Gerard Cambridge Ms Shirley Campbell Mr Geoffrey Carter Mrs Pamela Carter Mr J K Chadwick Mr William Chadwick Austin Chambers Mrs J Chambers Ms K Chapple Mrs Margaret L Chatfield Mr Eric Chilton VKF Ciaputa Mrs Betty Clee Mrs Anne Clegg Mrs C Connor Mr Michael Connor Mrs Olive Cook Mr D Cooper Mr Geoffrey D Copage James Coppock Mrs Joyce Cotgrave Mrs Barbara Cotterill Mr Richard & Mrs Karen Cowley Mrs Margaret R Croker Mr & Mrs J B & Sylvia Crummett Dr C S Cundy Hilary & Adrian Curtis Mr Alan Dagger Mr Gerard Dale Jennifer Dale Mrs Jackie Dalingwater Ms Maria Davies Lawrence Davis Mr G J Davison
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Mr Alan Dean Anne & John Dempsey Ethan Devlin Theo Devlin Mrs Wendy Dewey Mrs Bach-Lien Dinh Mr & Mrs I Disley Professor Alexander Donnachie Mrs M Downing Helen Drew Miss Margaret Dunn Ms Louise Durose Dr S Dymock Mr Barry Eastwood Mrs Stella Eberlein R Ellershaw Mr M Ellis Mr & Mrs K Else Mr Peter English Mrs Christine Everett Ms Julie M Fallon Ms N E Farrell Mr Steven Farrell Mrs Margaret Faulkner Mrs Cynthia Fenton Steven Fidler Mr Howard Fisher Raymond & Eileen Flint Mr R Foster Ms Wendy Foulger Mrs Augusta Fox Mr Charles R Fox Mr J W Fox Miriam & Michael Fox David & Sylvia Francis Mr R F Fry David & Joyce Fuller Miss A M Furphy Mrs E Galloway Peter Gannon John Gardner Eileen Goodwin in memory of Jack Mrs F B Grant Mr T Greene Andy Greenwell Ms Joy Greenwood
Pamela Greenwood Mr Stephen Gregory Mr J C B Gregson Mr A L Griffith Mrs Audrey Griffiths John Groarke Mr J F Austin Hall James Hallows Mrs Eveline Hamilton Mrs Sheila Hardy Mrs Helen Harrington Dr W David Harrison Mrs Judith Harrop Mr David Hartley Peter & Susan Haslehurst Tony Hayter Mrs Susan Heard Mrs P A Hemstock Dr Kenneth Henderson Mr John Herod Mr Thomas A Heyes Dr Pamela Hobson Mr Alex Hodgeon Mr Paul Holder Mr Derek Hollingsworth Dr Michael J Holloway Mr & Mrs M Holmes Mr R Holmes Jeanne Monica Holt Mr Brian Hooley Mrs Ann Hooper Mrs M Horan Mr John David Howard Mrs C M Hughes Mr J G B Hunter Mrs Jacqueline Hurdle John Hytner Miss Susan Ingham Dr Melanie Isherwood Mr Paul Jabore Bridget Jackson Mrs J A Jackson
Mrs I J Jackson Mr John Jackson Mr M D Jackson Mrs Pauline Jackson Mrs Emma Jacobs Miss Hilary Jarvis Mrs Christine Jenkinson Mr Mark Johnson Mr R Johnson Mrs A Johnstone Mrs A Jones Mrs J M Jones Mr Fred Jones Shirley Jones Mr D J Kay Mrs Angela Kendrick Mr Andrew Kennaugh Jack Kirby Miss B Knight Dr W F Knox Mr Rainer Kolbeck Mrs Pat Kundi Dr Louis Kushnick Mr & Mrs Vivian Labaton Mrs Lillian Langshaw Dr Hugh Laverty Mrs Alison Lawrence Mr & Mrs E Layland David & Pam Leaver Charles Ledigo Mr R Lee Mr Graham J Lees Mrs S Leete Mr Howard Leigh Mrs S Lewis Mrs Susan G Lewis Mrs A Leyland Mr John Liles Mrs Anne Livesey Pam & Gordon Lorimer Mr & Mrs J Lowe Mr C A Lowe Dr Marion E Mackay Mr David MacKley Mrs Sarah C Maddock
Mrs Barbara Maitra Mr D F Mardon Mrs B Marples Dr and Mrs Martin Mr Michael Martindale Mrs Dianne Massey Mr M D Masters Mrs Wendy Maunders Mrs Anne McCormack Mr J McCrory Mr J McGough Mrs T R McGough Mr Brian McGrath Mrs Sylvia McKellar Mrs Hinda Meggit Mr John Meriton Miss Audrey Messenger Dr John P Miller Mr Roger Miller Mr Robert Millington Mr Andrew C Mitchell Mr Tim Mitchell Miss G Mobb Anthony & Linda Mooney Mrs Gillian Moorhouse Mrs Jennifer Moorhouse Dr Richard Morgan Mr S J Morley Dr M G Mortimer Mr & Mrs Muir Mr A Murray Mr V Murray Dr Granville Neath Mr Peter Newton Mr Edward Nicholls Mr & Mrs Jonathan Noble Mr Thomas Nuhse Mrs L O’Connor Mr Stephen O’Hagan Mr Stephen OliverWatts Mr Martin Olley Mrs M Owen Mr Michael Owen
Graham & Dorothy Palmer Mr & Mrs K Parker Mr R K Parker Mrs Rosemary Parsons Mrs Ann Patterson Mrs M Pattinson Mrs Pauline Pedlar Mr J D Perry Mary Pexton R & E Philburn Dr Max Pilotti Mr John Piper Mr M Pittam Mr J Platt Mrs Lynne Powell Mr Lee Price Mrs Frances Prince Mrs Jean Pugh Mrs Jennifer Rae Mrs Sheila Ramsay Mr Stuart Ramsden Mr & Mrs Alan K Rawson Mr Paul Raynor Dr Redford Mrs M Redmond Miss Karen Redmore Mrs Susan Renshaw Mrs A Richardson Mrs S Rigby Mrs Christina Roberts Elizabeth & Hugh Roberts Mrs Winifred Robertson Mrs Doreen Robinson Mrs Kathleen Robson Mr Mark Robson Mr Colin Rogers Valerie & Howard Rogerson Mr Philip Roper Mrs J A Round Mr J Roundell Mr Raymond Rouse Miss P Rowland Mr C Rudd Miss S M Salmon Mr Peter Sampson
Mr Gerald Francis Schultz Mrs Margaret Scott Mr Robert Scott Mrs Carol Selby Alison Sellars Mr Andrew Senior Mr Maurice Setton Mr Christopher Sharp Mr David J Shearing Mr S W Shone Mrs Eileen Short John Shuttleworth Mr P Sidwell Mr Chris Simon Mrs J K Slack Dr A J & Mrs J M Smith Mrs Anne Smith Mr Lionel Smith Miss P.A. Smith Dr J Spangler Mrs A. P. Spilsbury Mr Dermot Spooner Mr M Spoors Mrs Joyce Stafford Mrs C M Stead Mrs P Steed Mrs Jane Stephens Mr Paddy Stephenson Mr J R Stuart Mrs Sally Sturt J B & J W Sutcliffe Miss SykesHowden Dr D P M Symmons Mr J P Syner Mr T Tarpey Mr J Taylor Mrs J Taylor Mrs Lesley Taylor Mr M Taylor Rosemary & Roger Taylor Mr D F Thickbroom Jim & Stella Thomas Michael Thomas Mrs S K Thomas Miss Marie Thompson
Mr Philip Thompson Mr Terence P Thornton Mrs J Tims Mr & Mrs P Trickett Mr & Mrs Brian Tuffery Mrs J Turner Mrs Barbara Twiney Mr W W Wagstaff Mr Angus Walker Mr P R Walker Mrs Sylvia Walker Mr W A Walker Mr John Ward Dr Stephen Ward Mrs & Mr Susan & Michael Warrington Mr & Mrs Bill Webb Miss Judith Weller Mrs Pamela Wells Mr Robert Wensley Mr Werbel Mrs A G Whaley Mr P N Whitaker Mrs H Whitehead Eric Whittaker Mrs Petronella Whittle Mrs L Wilkinson Professor Arthur Williams Mr & Mrs A J Williams Roger Williams Mrs Margaret Williams Mrs H J Williamson Mr A Willows Mrs Margaret Wilson Mr Stephen Wilson Mrs Kathleen Winterbottom Ms Janet Wolff Mr & Mrs Chris Wolstenholme Mrs Margot Wood Mr & Mrs S Wood Dr Zoe & Roderick Woodhead Mr T Woolfenden
Miss A F W Woolley Mr Norton Wragg Dr M Wren Anna Wright Mrs Helen Wright Mr Keith Wright Mr Angus G D Yeaman A Music Lover In memory of Roger Bogg In memory of Margaret Cooke In memory of Mr & Mrs G W Dawson In memory of Mr G E Huggins In memory of Bill and Florrie Mathews In memory of Arthur, Anne Newton & family In memory of Ian Michael (Mick) Othick In memory of Dr Nathan & Mrs Shlosberg In memory of Professor Noel Thomas
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Principal Sponsor
Diamond Partner
Major Sponsors
With thanks to Manchester Airports Group for 30 years of support.
NEW YORK
NORTHERN QUARTER PICCADILLY ST PETER’S SQUARE
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MANY THANKS TO ... HOLDERS OF THE HALLE SILVER MEDAL FOR PHILANTHROPY John & Margaret Allen Stewart Grimshaw Michael and Jean Oglesby Terry and Penny Moore Arthur Reynolds Jurgen Maier
2058 FOUNDATION PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS Manchester Airport Mr Martin McMillan obe and Mrs Pat McMillan The Oglesby Charitable Trust Fred Nash and Carole Nash obe Tiger Developments CIM Investment Management Ltd DLA Piper LLP Rothschild MAJOR BENEFACTORS Peter Heath David and Mary McKeith Brother (UK) Ltd PZ Cussons plc Nigel Warr David Wertheim and Family Kirby Laing Foundation Kobler Trust Martin and Jacqueline West
SUPPORTERS OF THE OGLESBY CENTRE AT HALLÉ ST PETER’S The Oglesby Charitable Trust The Monument Trust The Dunard Fund The Foyle Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation Granada Foundation The Kirby Laing Foundation Victoria Wood Foundation The Wolfson Foundation and all those who supported The Oglesby Challenge and those who wish to remain anonymous
AMERICAN PATRONS Carol E. Domina Caroline Firestone Rita Z. Mehos Christa Percopa Arthur Reynolds Annette Vass
LONDON PATRONS Joyce Hytner John Nickson and Simon Rew
The 2058 Foundation is a restricted fund of the Hallé Concerts Society established in the Hallé’s 150th Anniversary year to support specific artistic and education projects.
MANY THANKS TO OUR FAMILY OF WORKPLACE CHOIRS AJ Bell plc • BAE Systems • BASF plc • BDO llp Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce • Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust • The Oasis Centre PwC llp • RSM • Sellafield Ltd • Siemens plc • Veterinary Defence Society Ltd ≥ DIGITAL SEASON 2022 | 29
The Hallé would like to offer special thanks to the Weston Culture Fund and the Wolfson Foundation’s Covid-19 Support Fund, without which the delivery of this season would not have been possible.
THE HALLÉ WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING TRUSTS FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT The Monument Trust The Oglesby Charitable Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation The Foyle Foundation Granada Foundation Garfield Weston Foundation The Kirby Laing Foundation The Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation Paul Hamlyn Foundation The Victoria Wood Foundation The Wolfson Foundation The Zochonis Charitable Trust Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation The Austin and Hope Pilkington Trust The Band Trust Boshier Hinton Foundation Church Burgesses Educational Foundation The Derek Hill Foundation D’oyly Carte Charitable Trust Fidelio Charitable Trust The Gladys Jones Charitable Trust The Grand Trust Cio The Harding Trust John Horniman’s Children’s Trust The Irving Memorial Trust Land and Co Foundation The Leche Trust Mclay Dementia Trust Peter Cunningham Memorial Fund Cecil Pilkington Charitable Trust The Pilkington General Charity The Rix_Thompson-Rothenberg Foundation RUSI (The Royal United Services Institute) Sir George Martin Trust Sale Mayoral Fund The Sobell Foundation Thriplow Charitable Trust and others who wish to remain anonymous 30 | ≥ DIGITAL SEASON 2022
HALLÉ FAMILY OF BENEFACTORS Mrs A. Alford Mr C. K. Andrews Mr and Mrs Black In Memory of Rabbi Felix Carlebach from his family, friends and supporters Pamela Cate Mr Peter Copping Miss Rebecca Louise Finch Mrs Vivian Glass Mr Harry Johnson Mr A. and the late Mrs A. Johnson Kenneth Kay Mr C. H. Pooley Brian and Glenna Robson Bernadette Rudman Mr and Mrs R. P. Shepherd JP DL Lynne and Bob Spencer Mr and Mrs Brian Tetlow
HALLÉ BUSINESS CLUB PLATINUM Brother Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce PZ Cussons plc Rothschild & Co GOLD CBRE Ltd./The Towers Business Park SILVER Beaverbrooks Bruntwood Cazenove Capital C&0 Wines Tony and Daniela Coxon Elcometer Ltd Esprit Group Ltd Gary Halman Mills and Reeve LLP Web Applications UK
≥ CONCERTS SOCIETY PATRON HRH The Countess of Wessex gcvo VICE PRESIDENTS A. Martin McMillan obe Edward Pysden BOARD ELECTED DIRECTORS David McKeith [CHAIRMAN] Sharon Amesu Alex Connock Darren Drabble Tim Edge Juergen Maier cbe Linda Merrick John Phillips cbe Merryl Webster Aileen Wiswell mbe NOMINATED DIRECTORS GREATER MANCHESTER COMBINED AUTHORITY
Eamonn Boylan Councillor Janet Emsley MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL
Councillor Azra Ali CHIEF EXECUTIVE David Butcher FINANCE DIRECTOR Ruth Harkin ORCHESTRAL NOMINEE Caroline Abbott MUSIC DIRECTOR Sir Mark Elder ch cbe PERMANENT GUEST LEADER Paul Barritt ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR, POPS Stephen Bell ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Delyana Lazarova
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE David Butcher * Alison Lever FINANCE Ruth Harkin * Matthew Wyatt Lourdes Román Michael Wright VENUES Martin Glynn * Tyrone Holt Edward Cittanova David Roberts Karon Knapman ARTISTIC PLANNING Anna Hirst * Louise Hamilton Andrea Stafford Sue Voysey CONCERTS DEPARTMENT Stuart Kempster * † Hayley Parkes Hannah McGuire ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT Chris Lewis Jenny Espin LIBRARY Louise Brimicombe Alice McIlwraith STAGE MANAGEMENT Dan Gobey Lawrie Bebb
HALLÉ CONNECT EDUCATION Steve Pickett * Joanna Brockbank Holly Randhawa Patrick Shepherd HALLÉ CONNECT ENSEMBLES Naomi Benn * † Isabelle Orford Alison Megicks Edgar Divver Anna Stutfield SPONSORSHIP AND FUNDRAISING Kath Russell * Eleanor Roberts † Charlie Widdicombe Lucy Miller Max Thomas COMMUNICATIONS Andy Ryans * † Peter Naish † Liz Barras Harriet Hall † Anna Shinkfield DIGITAL Bill Lam * Riley Bramley-Dymond Alex Burns Tom Stephens ARCHIVE Eleanor Roberts † Stuart Robinson † † *
20 years service HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
GENERAL ENQUIRIES info@halle.co.uk www.halle.co.uk
CHORAL DIRECTOR Matthew Hamilton YOUTH CHOIRS DIRECTOR Stuart Overington CHILDREN’S CHOIR DIRECTOR Shirley Court COMPOSER EMERITUS Colin Matthews
The Hallé Concerts Society is a Registered Charity No.223882
ARTIST IN ASSOCIATION Ryan Wigglesworth
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