Thu 28 Nov & Sun 1 Dec 2024
The Bridgewater Hall
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
Composed towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony possesses a triumphant, bordering on boisterous, sense of ‘a return to life’.
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is filled with stirring dance rhythms and magnificent dynamic colour; the score calls for the first recorded use of fff (fortississimo: louder than fortissimo, as loud as possible). It has also been featured extensively in popular culture: for example, its second movement provides the background music to King George VI’s stirring World War II speech in The King’s Speech (2010).
Preceding the symphony, Kahchun Wong will conduct Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances, evocative of traditional Scottish folk tunes. Colin Currie, ‘at the summit of percussion performance today’ (Gramophone), will join the platform to play in James MacMillan’s celebrated Veni, veni Emmanuel, a percussion concerto that proved to be the composer’s breakthrough work.
Have a listen ahead of the concert!
Featuring
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Kahchun Wong
Principal Conductor
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Colin Currie
Percussion
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Kahchun Wong
Principal Conductor
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Colin Currie
Percussion
Meet The Hallé’s New Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong
Manchester has long shown the world how to blend change with tradition. The two elements are sure to be fully embraced in the city again during Kahchun Wong’s inaugural season as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Hallé.
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