The Hallé Orchestra, Halle Choir, Sara Jakubiak, Dame Felicity Palmer, Stuart Skelton, James Platt, Edward Gardner

A programme of

R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra
Janá?ek Glagolitic Mass

Ever since his tenure as the Hallé’s Assistant Conductor, Edward Gardner’s career has gone from strength to strength and he is now an international star. For the opening Thursday Series concert, he returns to conduct an enthralling programme. Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra was inspired by the writings of the philosopher Nietzsche. With its hugely
famous ‘sunrise’ opening, it is a glorious example of sumptuous orchestral sound. Janá?ek’s lean and muscular Glagolitic Mass, a setting of a ninth-century liturgical text, is one of the greatest twentieth-century choral works, a Czech masterpiece that evokes both rawness and purity. Among much else, it will showcase the magnificent Bridgewater Hall organ and the extraordinary Hallé Choir.