Hallé Set Works Concert – The Orchestra Through the Ages

Conducted by Delyana Lazarova
Presented by Tom Redmond
With soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music

‘The Orchestra Through the Ages’ takes pupils on a guided tour of music from the Renaissance to the twenty first century. Featuring a number of orchestral pieces from the AQA, OCR, WJEC and Edexcel syllabi for GCSE and A-level music, the concert demonstrates the development of the symphony orchestra with a brief history and musical analysis of some key pieces.

The live concert will take place on 5 October and the online concert will be available to watch between 1 – 30 November 2021.

PROGRAMME

Chapter 1: The Founding Fathers

Giovanni Gabrieli – Sonata no. XIII

Johann Sebastian Bach – VII ‘Badinerie’ from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor

Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 104 in D, ‘London’ – First movement

Chapter 2: The Prodigies

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Concerto in A – III Finale

Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 in A, ‘Italian’ – First movement

Chapter 3: Romantics and Nationalism

Amy Beach – Gaelic Symphony in E minor – First Movement

Sibelius – ‘Lemminkäinen Suite’, Lemminkäinen’s Return

Chapter 4: 20th Century and beyond

Zoltan Kodaly – Hary Janos: Battle and Defeat of Napoleon and Intermezzo,

Terry Riley – In C

Hans Zimmer – Pirates of the Caribbean

Live Concert features:

• The development of the orchestra from the Renaissance to the present day
• Concert repertoire taken from the GCSE, AS and A’Level music syllabuses of the AQA. OCR, Edexcel and Eduqas/WJEC exam boards
• Analysis of some of the key works

Additional features with the online concert include:

• Insights into the role of the conductor and the musical journeys of the three RNCM student soloists
• Enjoy as a complete concert, or in bite-sized ‘chapters’ to enable learning in separate lessons
• May be watched as many times as you like between 1st and 30th November 2021 and may be shared by the teacher with any student within the purchasing school
• Opportunity for a variety of year groups to watch and engage, as well as pupils who play in various school ensembles