Hallé/Zehetmair - review

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterThomas Zehetmair and Mark Elder have entered into an increasingly profitable partnership, cementing their Gramophone award-winning recording of Elgar's violin concerto by borrowing each other's orchestras. Last month, Elder directed Zehetmair's musicians, the Northern Sinfonia, for the first time; here, Zehetmair returned the favour. He has a fine relationship with the Hallé, or at least two-thirds of it. For this programme of Beethoven and Schumann, the orchestra wa...

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