Summer Concert
Stoller Hall, Manchester (view map and travel information here)
| Wagner | Prelude: Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg |
| Brahms | Concerto for violin and cello |
| Berkeley/Britten | Mont Juic: Suite of Catalan Dances |
| Elgar | Variations on an original theme ‘Enigma’ |
Juan Ortuño – conductor
John Resek – leader
Tom Bangbala – violin | Stephen Threlfall – cello
Our Summer Concert will be a celebration of friendship, opening with the overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Wagner’s only comic opera. Gorton Philharmonic President Stephen Threlfall will then be joined by long-time friend and BBC Philharmonic violinist Tom Bangbala to perform Brahms’ Double Concerto, written to reconcile a broken friendship with the violin virtuoso Joachim. Mont Juic (Suite of Catalan dances), jointly composed by Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten after they’d met in Barcelona, will add a touch of Iberia to proceedings before Elgar’s most loved work, his Variation on an original theme ‘Enigma Variations’– fourteen musical portraits of his close friends and acquaintances – brings our 2024/2025 season to a close in majestic style.
Concert venue address:
Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester, M3 1DA
Tickets:
£15 ( £5.50 under-18s/full-time education)
boxoffice@stollerhall.com
0333 130 0967
