The Hallé
Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25
Saturday 12 October 2024, 19:00 PM
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Date
Saturday, 12 October 2024
Time
19:00
Price
£22.95, £30.50 & £32.50 Under 18 & Student: £10.50 (includes fees)
The Hallé
Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25
Oval Hall | Sheffield City Hall
The Hallé
Tianyi Lu conductor
Alban Gerhardt cello
Pre-Concert Talk with BBC Broadcaster Trisha Cooper & Guests: 6pm
Concert: 7pm
ANDRÉE Andante Quasi Recitativo for Strings (5’)
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto (40’)
Interval
BRAHMS Symphony No.3 (33’)
The Hallé’s string section shines in this shimmering programme, directed by Tianyi Lu – Principal Conductor of the St Woolos Sinfonia – that includes some of the most popular works in the repertoire. Dvořák’s joyous Cello Concerto, showcasing the rich middle register of the instrument which the composer had always favoured, will be performed by Alban Gerhardt, “one of the finest cellists around” (The Guardian). Brahms’s triumphant, yet troubled, Third Symphony, proclaimed by Hans Richter to be the “Brahms Eroica”, concludes the programme. The concert opens with a work by Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée. A pioneer, she was the first Swedish woman to conduct a symphony orchestra and to graduate as an organist, becoming Gothenburg Cathedral’s organist when she was in her mid-twenties. Her Andante Quasi Recitativo for Strings is intensely emotive and brimming with melodic richness.