The Hallé Orchestra, Halle Youth Orchestra

Programme:
Wagner - Gotterdammerung: Funeral March (Act III)
Wagner - Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries
Berlioz - The Trojans - Royal Hunt and Storm

This coming together of younger and more experienced musicians would have delighted our founder Sir Charles Halle who conducted the orchestra’s very first concert 160 years ago, almost to this day.

The event, beginning with a short open rehearsal, features exhilarating orchestral music from works dear to the great man’s heart. Sir Mark Elder, just the ninth permanent conductor in the orchestra’s long history, begins with two thrilling orchestral highlights from Wagner’s epic Ring cycle: 'Siegfried’s Funeral March’ from Götterdämmerung and ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ from Die Walküre. Like his great predecessor, Sir Mark is a committed supporter of young talent.

The Halle’s Assistant Conductor and Music Director of the Hallé Youth Orchestra, Jonathon Heyward, takes up the baton with music from another truly epic operatic work, The Trojans by Berlioz. Sir Charles would have been so proud!