Performance on 3 - 09/05/2008

Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert given at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, concluding the Halle Orchestra's 150th anniversary season. The programme celebrates the orchestra's notable record of British premieres, with a performance of Shostakovich's First symphony, premiered in England by Hamilton Harty and the Halle in 1931. Alina Pogostkina (violin) Halle Orchestra Mark Elder (conductor) Glinka: Overture (A Life for the Tsar) Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 in F minor.