Chamber Series: Hallé Cello Octet

The Hallé cello section, led by Nicholas Trygstad, performs a programme of music with a distinctively Latin feel, written and arranged just for cellos. The concert opens with music from Rossini’s final opera, William Tell: beginning with Sunrise, a slow and languorous depiction of an Alpine dawn, it is followed by the most famous part of the work’s overture, the quick and lively Galop. In his Bachianas Brasileiras No.1, Villa-Lobos combines his a...