This concert is part of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3’s Manchester Week - celebrating music-making in Manchester with a week of special broadcasts starting on Monday 24 January.
The last of Greater Manchester-born William Walton's three concertos, forms the centrepiece of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic's live concert and they are joined by cellist Guy Johnston, who trained at Manchester's Chetham's School of Music. Beethoven's Fourth Symphony opens our programme with a question before diving headlong into energetic and positive resolution. Dance rhythms and opulent melody shine through Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, which closes the evening with some of the best-known melodies in the orchestral repertoire.