RYAN WIGGLESWORTH
RYAN WIGGLES ORTH
ELIZABETH WATT
ELIZABET WATTS
09
Thursday 16 March 2017, 7.30pm
Conductor:
Ryan Wigglesworth
Soprano:
Elizabeth Watts
J. Strauss II:
Blue Danube Waltz
R. Strauss:
Orchestral Songs
Mahler:
Symphony No. 4
Manchester’s award-winning symphony orchestra, the
Hallé, returns to Hull with its Principal Guest Conductor,
Ryan Wigglesworth, who conducts Mahler’s Fourth
Symphony, one of the composer’s most accessible
creations. The first movement recalls the Viennese classical
style, the second evokes the grim fiddler of German
folklore and the third is a sublime slow movement. Finally,
Elizabeth Watts joins the orchestra with the depiction of
a child’s vision of paradise, with sweets in profusion and
bread baked by angels. The concert opens with Johann
Strauss II’s waltz masterpiece, The Blue Danube, and a
selection of exquisite orchestral songs by the other great,
unrelated Strauss, Richard.
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