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Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from Manchester

The Hallé performs works by Stravinsky, Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho.

The Hallé’s Artist-in-Residence, Thomas Adès conducts this cosmic programme spanning time and space.

Two pieces this evening were commissioned at the turn of the millennium. The first is Adès’s America: A Prophecy – an apocalyptic piece incorporating Mayan verse and Spanish flamboyance. Tonight we hear the UK premiere of the expansion of this powerful work which features celebrated soprano Anna Dennis and the Hallé Choir. The second is the late Saariaho’s Oltra Mar – a work in seven movements, exploring themes of love, death and time.

These are bookended by Adès’s luminous, daringly hopeful Dawn: a chacony for orchestra at any distance and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Though riotous at its 1913 premiere, The Rite of Spring is now cemented as one of the most influential pieces of the 20th century – a surging, thunderous tribute to renewal.

Presented live from Bridgewater Hall in Manchester by Elizabeth Alker.

Thomas Adès: Dawn: a chacony for orchestra at any distance
Saariaho: Oltra Mar
Thomas Adès: America: A Prophecy (UK Premiere of revised version - Hallé Commission)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Anna Dennis, soprano
Hallé Choir
Matthew Hamilton, choral director
The Hallé
Thomas Adès, conductor

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Last on

Thu 27 Mar 2025 19:30
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Thomas Adès

    Dawn, Chacony for orchestra at any distance

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Thomas Adès.

  • Kaija Saariaho

    Oltra Mar

    Orchestra: Hallé. Choir: Hallé Choir. Conductor: Thomas Adès.

  • Thomas Adès

    America: A Prophecy

    Singer: Anna Dennis. Orchestra: Hallé. Choir: Hallé Choir. Conductor: Thomas Adès.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Adès.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Thomas Adès.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Three Motets, Op.110: No.1 Ich aber bin elend

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Vivace, no.2 from 4 English dances - set 1 Op.27

    Orchestra: Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Penny.
    • Arnold: Dances.
    • NAXOS.
    • 002.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 Mar 2025 19:30
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3