The Hallé

And these kind of big epic works that are still the sort of pieces I choose to go and hear or ideally perform in now.

And yeah, there was just nothing more thrilling than having the Hallé Orchestra in front of you.

and hearing these huge, huge, generally, you know, Mahlerites and Elgar's apostles They both have the most incredible last 10 minutes.

And hearing this as a 15, 16 year old was just about the most exciting thing I could imagine.

And this was 2024? I think

it was 2024.

It was Mark Elder's final concert as Sir Mark, I should be calling him, as chief conductor of the Hallé Orchestra.

And this is the prom's performance.

Roleplay is on Radio 4 at 4pm.

Radio 3 in Concert presents the Hallé Orchestra, marking the 30th anniversary of Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, with music from Liszt, Beethoven, and featuring the first performance of Symphony No. 6 by James Macmillan, commissioned specially by the Hallé.

Radio 3 in Concert is at 7.30pm.

In The Bottom Line, Evan Davis meets three people who work in the antiques industry, exploring how it works.

Artists who unfortunately passed away on October the 25th include Sir Charles Hallé, who passed away in 1895 at the age of 76 from a stroke.

He was a pianist and conductor who founded Manchester's famed Hallé Orchestra back in 1858.

Sir John Manduel passed away in 2017 at the age of 89 from, well, being 89.

He was a South African-born British composer and also a music administrator.

Future Talent was founded by the Duchess of Kent, Catherine, who passed away this year.

And he wrote this piece and that piece for full orchestra got recorded by the Hallé Orchestra and played on Classic FM and all this kind of stuff.

which was then performed at the Roundhouse in London, hosted by Alexander Armstrong.

Sam's on stage being interviewed by Alexander Armstrong.

Roleplay is on Radio 4 at 4pm.

Radio 3 in Concert presents the Hallé Orchestra, marking the 30th anniversary of Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, with music from Liszt, Beethoven, and featuring the first performance of Symphony No. 6 by James Macmillan, commissioned specially by the Hallé.

Radio 3 in Concert is at 7.30pm.

In The Bottom Line, Evan Davis meets three people who work in the antiques industry, exploring how it works.

Okay.

So we worked together with the Hallé in Manchester and I think about five years ago, because when she saw me, she's like, last time I saw you, you were pregnant.

And my son's four and a half now.

No, we had a great time doing Clara Schumann's piano concerto.

He demonstrated a couple of test pressings that played from the inside outwards.

He played a test pressing from with his work with Giles Martin on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Sir John Barbirolli's 1964 recording of Sibelius' Finlandia with the Hallé Orchestra, which he also used to show what can be achieved from a well-recorded historical master tape.

His anecdotes were fascinating and really informative, and he came over as an extremely talented audio engineer and a very modest and laudable human being.

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Was won by the Hallé Orchestra with a recording of music by Huw Watkins, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, and that's on the Hallé's own label.

The repertoire, the Concerto for Orchestra, A Fanfare for the Hallé, and Symphony Number Two.

Um, now, I felt listening to this that Huw Watkins just has a wonderful sense of, of orchestration, but also a wonderful sense of writing very vividly for the, the principal and the sections within the orchestra, and particularly in the, the Concerto for Orchestra, which almost becomes a portrait of, of the Hallé.