Halle

In recent years Cristian M?celaru has become very much a favourite with Hallé audiences. In
these concerts he forms a dream team with the great pianist Lars Vogt. Beethoven’s great
concerto is a work of lyricism and humour with a slow movement that has been likened to Orpheus
taming the furies! Hans Richter compared Brahms’s Third Symphony to Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ and it
certainly has heroic qualities, its moody third movement being a particular highlight that has made
its mark in film as well as the concert hall. In his short life, Weber left us a dazzling legacy of
operatic and orchestral works; Der Freischütz perhaps the most popular of them all, and certainly
the most eloquent, as the Overture reveals.