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Kevin Bloody Wilson

The University of Manchester

Finnish composer Rautavaara’s Deux Sérénades is a delicately poignant work in two movements: the first, ‘For my love’, is rich with emotive, yearning melodies; the second, ‘For life’, is more contemplative, until a suddenly frantic finish. Thomas Adès’ Aquifer is brimming with fluid motifs and rhythms that expand and withdraw as the water would in its namesake geological structure. Stephen Waarts will perform Adès’ Air – Homage to Sibelius, a transformative work first premiered earlier this year.

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Adès and Sibelius

The Bridgewater Hall

Stephen Waarts, enjoyed by audiences globally for his ‘expressive fire and tonal vitality’ (Süddeutsche Zeitung), joins Hallé Artist-in-Residence Thomas Adès to perform in Rautavaara’s final opus.

Finnish composer Rautavaara’s Deux Sérénades is a delicately poignant work in two movements: the first, ‘For my love’, is rich with emotive, yearning melodies; the second, ‘For life’, is more contemplative, until a suddenly frantic finish. Thomas Adès’ Aquifer is brimming with fluid motifs and rhythms that expand and withdraw as the water would in its namesake geological structure. Stephen Waarts will perform Adès’ Air – Homage to Sibelius, a transformative work first premiered earlier this year. Book-ending tonight’s concert are two Sibelius symphonies, his Fifth and Seventh. The latter, like Air, was composed in one single movement, yet it is no less full of rhythmic variety.

The Hallé - Adès And Sibelius

That Love Thing is a story of courage and confusion, crashing together the world of ordinary love with the not-so-ordinary world of disability.

That Love Thing

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Live Nation Presents: BURY TOMORROW
+ Make Them Suffer
+ Thornhill
+ As Everything Unfolds

Bury Tomorrow

Be Hear Now is our relaxed music workshop programme, for children and young people with special educational needs and their families.

Explore music, creativity and movement in these wonderful sessions, led by Beth Bishop, and featuring musicians from the Live Music Now team.

Be Hear Now

Be Hear Now is our relaxed music workshop programme, for children and young people with special educational needs and their families.

Explore music, creativity and movement in these wonderful sessions, led by Beth Bishop, and featuring musicians from the Live Music Now team.

This session is a quiet, calmer sensory session, with a smaller group. It is particularly suited for young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and their families.

Experience epic and inspirational music from Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Game of Thrones and beyond as the worlds of TV, film and fantasy are brought to life by a full symphony orchestra and stunning choir, in this unmissable concert featuring the greatest movie music of all time.

Featuring music from The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Witcher, Game of Thrones, Dragonheart, The Chronicles of Narnia, How To Train Your Dragon, Pirate of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Avatar and more.

Music of the Movies: Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, The Hobbit, Avatar and Beyond

Famously conjured up by folk duo Spiers and Boden during a traffic jam, Bellowhead burst onto the British scene back in 2004, their early days seeing them regularly lauded as “one of the country’s greatest live outfits”.

Following a brief hiatus – and prompted by a record-breaking streamed performance during the pandemic – the band reunited for a sold-out tour in 2022, reaffirming their status as one of the UK’s biggest and most in demand folk acts.

Bellowhead

SJM Concerts Present: JAKE BUGG + Support

Jake Bugg

Live Nation Presents: MYLES KENNEDY + Special Guests

Myles Kennedy

SJM Concerts Present: REVEREND AND THE MAKERS + Support

Reverend And The Makers

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is filled with stirring dance rhythms and magnificent dynamic colour; the score calls for the first recorded use of fff (fortississimo: louder than fortissimo, as loud as possible). It has also been featured extensively in popular culture: for example, its second movement provides the background music to King George VI’s stirring World War II speech in The King’s Speech (2010).

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

Programme to include songs by Vivaldi, Schubert, Mahler, Offenbach, Debussy, and Weill

The versatile Dutch mezzo-soprano Roza Herwig is praised for her warm voice and artistry. Roza finished her vocal studies with distinction in the Artist Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London and continued in the Artist Diploma. 

Roza Herwig

Composed towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony possesses a triumphant, bordering on boisterous, sense of ‘a return to life’.

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is filled with stirring dance rhythms and magnificent dynamic colour; the score calls for the first recorded use of fff (fortississimo: louder than fortissimo, as loud as possible). It has also been featured extensively in popular culture: for example, its second movement provides the background music to King George VI’s stirring World War II speech in The King’s Speech (2010).

The Hallé - Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

A true Christmas favourite, beloved comedy classic Home Alone features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and delightful score performed live to picture by the International Film Orchestra. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who’s accidentally left behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation, and who must defend his home against two bungling thieves.  

Nominated for two Academy Awards® for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Somewhere in My Memory), Home Alone is hilarious, heart-warming festive fun for the entire family!

Home Alone in Concert

If you’re looking for some fun family activities for the little ones this Autumn, join award-winning theatre artist and singer, Le Gateau Chocolat, as they transform into The Wish Giver for an unforgettable theatrical and musical extravaganza the whole family will cherish.

I Wish

SJM Concerts Present: Confidence Man + Support

Confidence Man

‘Nimrod’, one of music’s most endearing tributes, lies at the heart of the ‘Enigma’ Variations, and there are many more touching portraits to unveil here. Each movement dedicated to in his own words ‘his friends pictured within’. Edward Elgar loved cryptic codes and he hid one in his most famous work – it is still to be cracked even to this day.

In Swansong, Arvo Pärt creates a mesmerising anthem to the 19th century priest and scholar, Cardinal Newman.

The music of Frank Martin, operatic in scope is brought to the concert platform by world renowned baritone Roderick Williams.

BBC Philharmonic - Cracking Elgar’s Enigma Code 

‘Nimrod’, one of music’s most endearing tributes, lies at the heart of the ‘Enigma’ Variations, and there are many more touching portraits to unveil here. Each movement dedicated to in his own words ‘his friends pictured within’. Edward Elgar loved cryptic codes and he hid one in his most famous work – it is still to be cracked even to this day.

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Kevin Bloody Wilson

Manchester Academy

Adès and Sibelius

The Hallé

The Hallé - Adès And Sibe...

The Bridgewater Hall

That Love Thing

HOME Manchester

Bury Tomorrow

Manchester Academy

Be Hear Now

The Bridgewater Hall

Be Hear Now

The Bridgewater Hall

Music of the Movies: Lord...

The Bridgewater Hall

Bellowhead

The Bridgewater Hall

Jake Bugg

Manchester Academy

Myles Kennedy

Manchester Academy

Reverend And The Makers

Manchester Academy

Beethoven’s Seventh Symph...

The Hallé

Roza Herwig

The Bridgewater Hall

The Hallé - Beethoven’s S...

The Bridgewater Hall

Home Alone in Concert

The Bridgewater Hall

I Wish

HOME Manchester

Confidence Man

Manchester Academy

BBC Philharmonic - Cracki...

The Bridgewater Hall

Cracking Elgar’s Enigma C...

BBC Philharmonic