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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Mark Elder and the Halle at the Bridgewater Hall

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Mark Elder and the Halle at the Bridgewater Hall: Episode 2: Elgar

Mark Elder and the Halle at the Bridgewater Hall

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Episode 2: Elgar

Elgar

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Mark Elder and the Halle at the Bridgewater Hall, Elgar

The Halle's concert under Mark Elder concludes with Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. The Halle's concert under Mark Elder concludes with a performance of Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Prokofiev's formidable 2nd Piano Concerto forms the heart of this programme, featuring the youngest winner of the Leeds Piano Competition for forty years, Sunwook Kim. He's won high praise for his remarkable technical ability and for the broad range of expression and colour of his playing. Here he focuses his talents on what is widely regarded to be one of the most technically challenging of all concertos. Also in the programme, Sibelius tone poem En Saga - the composer's "expression of a state of mind", and Elgar's perennial favourite, his musical gallery of "my friends pictured within" - the Enigma Variations.

Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra (Enigma) Op 36

Sunwook Kim (piano) 
Halle Orchestra 
Sir Mark Elder (conductor).

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Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in music by Sibelius, Prokofiev and Elgar

In a live concert from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Mark Elder conducts the Halle Orchestra in music by Sibelius, Prokofiev and Elgar

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