Hallé/Elder – review

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterThere are two particular kinds of deep-throated roar that can only be heard in Manchester. The first is at Old Trafford when United score; the second is the one emitted by a full house at the Bridgewater Hall when the Hallé hits the kind of form it has found for its increasingly triumphant Beethoven cycle. The visceral, dance-like propulsion of the Seventh may seem to render it the least philosophical of the symphonies; and Mark Elder unleashed a whirl of rhythmic en...

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