Live choice
Mar 17, 2022
4 minutes
Hallé Orchestra
Sage Gateshead, 1 April
Web: halle.co.uk
Paganini might have been initially underwhelmed by it, but Berlioz’s viola-showcasing Harold in Italy is a violist’s dream. Timothy Ridout undertakes the Byronic limelight in a concert conducted by Lionel Bringuier that, having dipped into Smetana’s riverscape Vltava, returns to Italy for Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini.
The Sixteen
Winchester Cathedral, 2 April
Web: thesixteen.com
The ensemble’s annual ‘Choral Pilgrimage’ reaches Winchester. Conducted by Harry Christophers, Parry’s Songs of Farewell and Howells’s Take him, Earth, for Cherishing frame a sequence of medieval carols and settings of Campion which in turn frame a new work by Cecilia McDowall.
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