Don't rush home... spend an hour with the Hallé!
The Hallé’s Rush Hour Series offers early evening, hour-long, weekday concerts. Why battle with trains and trams when you could be listening to stunning music played by your amazing orchestra?
Concerts
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Thu 2 Oct 2025
The Bridgewater Hall
Rush Hour: Enigma Variations
Programme information
- Programme
- Max Richter Cosmology (Hallé Co-Commission/ Manchester Premiere) (20')
- Olivia Belli Limina Luminis (6')
- Elgar Enigma Variations (30')
- Max Richter Cosmology (Hallé Co-Commission/ Manchester Premiere) (20')
- Tuning Up! post-concert performance in the stalls foyer.
Join us for more music with musicians from the RNCM.
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Thu 4 Dec 2025
The Bridgewater Hall
Rush Hour: Nutcracker Selection
Programme information
- Programme
- Borodin Polovtsian Dances (14')
- Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Selection (40')
- Borodin Polovtsian Dances (14')
- Tuning Up! post-concert performance in the stalls foyer.
- This concert includes one or more pieces that form part of the 'Model Music Curriculum for Key Stages 1 to 3.
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Thu 5 Mar 2026
The Bridgewater Hall
Rush Hour: Shostakovich’s Symphony No.1
Programme information
- Programme
- Janáček Taras Bulba (23')
- Shostakovich Symphony No.1 (35')
- Janáček Taras Bulba (23')
- Tuning Up! post-concert performance in the stalls foyer.
Join us for more music with musicians from the Hallé Youth Ensembles.
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Thu 21 May 2026
The Bridgewater Hall
Rush Hour: West Side Story Symphonic Dances
Programme information
- Programme
- Poulenc Organ Concerto (24')
- Kristina Arakelyan Toccata for Organ and Orchestra (8')
- Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances (24')
- Poulenc Organ Concerto (24')
- Tuning Up! post-concert performance in the stalls foyer.
- This concert includes one or more pieces that form part of the 'Model Music Curriculum for Key Stages 1 to 3.
