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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester: Episode 2: Dvorak, Elgar

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Episode 2: Dvorak, Elgar

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Dvorak, Elgar

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The Halle performs music by Dvorak and Elgar.

From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. The Halle in Dvorak: Serenade for wind (conducted by Andrew Gourlay). Elgar: Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) (conducted by Mark Elder).

Live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

Presented by Christopher Cook.

Written as the storm clouds of war were gathering, Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony is a glorious paean to peace that opens with a gentle horn call and ends in a serene glow. A sweetly expressive lovers' theme, a military band and even a cheeky cockney street urchin feature in Elgar's overture Cockaigne, a beguiling musical picture of our capital city. Alongside these two British masterpieces is Dvorák's lovely and highly lyrical Serenade. Completed in 1878, it gave the Czech composer one of his earliest successes, and will be conducted this evening by the Halle's assistant conductor Andrew Gourlay.

Dvorák: Serenade for wind* 
Elgar: Overture: Cockaigne (In London Town) 


Halle Orchestra
Conductor Sir Mark Elder
Assistant Conductor Andrew Gourlay*.

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Mark Elder conducts the Halleorchestra in music by Vaughan Williams, Dvorak and Elgar

Mark Elder conducts the Halleorchestra in music by Vaughan Williams, Dvorak and Elgar at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

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