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Manchester Classical 2025

Manchester Classical 2025 Events

  • Sat 28 Jun 2025

    • 10:00
      The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

      Sean Chandler presents a live and interactive performance of Three Billy Goats Gruff from the CBeebies series Musical Storyland with musicians from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra.

      Sean Chandler presents a live and interactive performance of Three Billy Goats Gruff from the CBeebies series Musical Storyland with musicians from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra.

      Programme

          • Musical Storyland: Three Billy Goats Gruff

      Performers

      • Sean Chandler
        presenter
        presenter

      Composers

    • 20:00
      The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

      Music for beginnings and endings. It’s hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant, first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

      Music for beginnings and endings. It’s hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant, first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

      Programme

          • Death and Transfiguration
          • Rhapsody in Blue
          • Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

      Performers

      • conductor
        conductor
      • Hayato Sumino
        piano
        piano

      Composers

  • Sun 29 Jun 2025

    • 10:30
      The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

      Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures bursts open with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra as they play live accompaniment to two wonderfully animated adventures.

      Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures bursts open with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra as they play live accompaniment to two wonderfully animated adventures.

      Programme

          • Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures

      Performers

      • conductor
        conductor

      Composers

    • 18:30
      The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

      Musicians from Manchester’s ensembles assemble under the baton of Alpesh Chauhan for a concert of fanfares and flourishes to celebrate the finale of a spectacular weekend of music.

      Musicians from Manchester’s ensembles assemble under the baton of Alpesh Chauhan for a concert of fanfares and flourishes to celebrate the finale of a spectacular weekend of music.

      Programme

          • Short Ride in a Fast Machine
          • New Commission – world premiere
          • Prince Igor – Polovtsian Dances
          • Pines of Rome

      Performers

      • conductor
        conductor
      • ensemble
        ensemble
      • choir
        choir
      • ensemble
        ensemble
      • RNCM
        ensemble
        ensemble
      • Musicians from the Hallé
        ensemble
        ensemble

      Composers