Royal Philharmonic Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Piano Concerto

Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Piano Concerto

Conductor: Leslie Suganandarajah

Piano: Mark Bebbington

Louise Farrenc Overture No.1

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5, ‘Emperor’

Brahms Symphony No.4

Although they called her the ‘female Beethoven’, the nineteenth-century French composer Louise Farrenc was very much her own woman, and it is only now in the twenty-first century are we rediscovering her ardently romantic, strikingly original music. Her stirring Overture is a concert charged with poetry and emotion. Mark Bebbington joins the orchestra for Beethoven’s fifth, popularly known as the ‘Emperor’.  We then voyage to the raging storms and sunset colours of Brahms’s mighty final symphony, with conductor Leslie Suganandarajah.

Madame Butterfly

Senbla presents Opera International’s award-winning Ellen Kent Production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Hull City Hall.

Featuring the Ukrainian National Opera of Kharkiv in collaboration with the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra.

Back by overwhelming public demand, this award-winning Opera returns in a new production with exquisite sets including a spectacular Japanese garden and fabulous costumes including antique wedding kimonos from Japan.

One of the world’s most popular operas, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly tells the heart-breaking story of the beautiful young Japanese girl who falls in love with an American naval lieutenant – with dramatic results.

Highlights include the melodic ‘Humming Chorus’, the moving aria ‘One Fine Day’ and the unforgettable ‘Love Duet’.

Carmen

Senbla presents Opera International’s award-winning Ellen Kent Production of Bizet’s Carmen at Hull City Hall.

Featuring the Ukrainian National Opera of Kharkiv in collaboration with the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra.

An evening of passion, sexual jealousy, death and unforgettable arias.

This dazzling production with orchestra features Bizet’s unforgettable melodies including ‘The Toreador’s Song’, Carmen’s enticing ‘Habanera’, and Don José’s lyrical ‘Flower Song’ in a setting evoking the stunning architecture of Seville and its main square with Roman and Moorish influences.

The Art of Believing Special Edition – Flamenco

The award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company returns to Hull with another spell-binding flamenco show full of emotion, passion and grit.

Back by popular demand, the audience will enjoy compositions from Daniel’s Herald Angel Award winning production Art of Believing as well as other unseen pieces full of music, singing and dance.

If you’re looking to enjoy authentic flamenco from the heart, look no further than the Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company and their spectacular dancer and musicians.

The Orchestra Of Opera North – Viennese Whirl

Resident conductor and artistic advisor of the London Mozart Players, Jonathan Bloxham, takes the orchestra for a spin in a traditional New Year celebration, packed with waltzes, marches and polkas by the Strauss Family and more. Soprano Alexandra Lowe (Fiordiligi in Opera North’s New Year Così fan tutte) joins the ensemble in arias and song.

A traditional selection of Strauss Family polkas, marches and waltzes is sprinkled with romantic delights from Dvořák and Brahms, a Gershwin gem to mark the composer’s 125th year, and some treats from the Strausses’ spiritual heir, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The ‘Blue Danube’ and ‘T’he Radetzky March’ return to the source to complete an essential celebration.

Opera North – Così Fan Tutte

It starts with a casual bet. The wily cynic Don Alfonso wagers that the fiancées of two young men, complacent in their romantic notions of love, won’t stay faithful for a minute if put to the test. It sounds harmless enough and, anyway, the lovers are entirely sure of themselves. But there is cruelty in this game of love and chance.

It’s difficult to think of an opera that contains more music of sheer beauty than Così fan tutte – or has a libretto that is more unsettling. The plot is a work of supreme artifice, yet the opera charts the boundaries of real and feigned emotion, trust and deception, loyalty and desire, with unsparing accuracy and truthfulness. Tim Albery’s beautiful, thoughtful, 18th Century styled production is set firmly in a pitiless Age of Reason.

Saturday Concert Series – Richard Sleight

Flute Fancies.

Richard Sleight and his accompanist Ben Newton present a programme of light music for flute and piano to suit a perfect summer’s afternoon.

Booking a ticket helps Hull Minster to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

Saturday Concert Series – Vox Trinitas

Of All the Byrds

Prepare to be entertained by the lusty, loud and sometimes lewd singing of the Vox Trinitas vocal ensemble, who present musical dainties from the English Renaissance for chamber voices and small ensemble. This concert is inspired by the anniversary of the death of William Byrd but is guaranteed to be far from mournful, featuring a programme of comic animal songs by Byrd and his near contemporaries.

Booking a ticket helps Hull Minster to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

Saturday Concert Series – North Ferriby Ladies Choir

North Ferriby Ladies Choir promises to sing a selection of feel good favourites with a great deal of style and panache.

Booking a ticket helps Hull Minster to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

Saturday Concert Series – Classical Guitar Ensemble

Featuring music ranging from the Spanish and classical repertoire to arrangements of popular hits, The Classical Guitar Ensemble of the East Riding of Yorkshire promises to lightly serenade its audience in a way that only the classical guitar can.

The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

Booking a ticket helps Hull Minster to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Saturday Concert Series – Rachel Dent

Harpist Rachel Dent performs delightful music of every musical persuasion, on both her pedal and lever harps.

The programme comprises:

La Source Alphonse Hasselmans
Grand Sonata in Eb Jan Ladislav Dussek
Prelude for Harp Herbert Howells
Sun Dance (from Santa Fe Suite) William Mathias
Two Movements from Epices Bernard Andres
Two Celtic Tunes Catriona McKay

Booking a ticket helps Hull Minster to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

Mellow Cello

Up and coming cellist Tyler Wood presents a programme of chilled out cello classics. The perfect way to start a suitably sedentary Saturday.

The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Hull Minster C Mike Bartlett

Shadings: Piano & Electronics Recital

This afternoon’s recital will feature the premiere of a new work Shadings for piano and electronics.

Shadings was written in memoriam the composer Professor Helmut Bieler, who founded and led the contemporary music series “Zeit für Neue Musik” in Bayreuth.

Commissioned to perform there in March 2020, and upon the news of Professor Bieler’s passing in 2019, I wanted to compose a new work in thanks to his dedication to new and experimental music. I was kindly sent some of Professor Bieler’s last music sketches, which have been used as a basis for Shadings’s compositional ideas.

The premiere unfortunately had to be postponed on numerous occasions, as were so many other concerts during that time, and I am delighted to be able to present the work in Hull Minster this afternoon.

The title is an approximate translation of the German “Schattierungen”, the original title of this work.

Today’s programme will include other solo piano compositions and improvisations.

Simon-Mary Vincent is an Anglo-Hungarian performer and composer who constantly challenges the boundaries of genre and musical expression with a unique musical language

“Visionary and expressive”, “rich and surprising”, “an immersive experience”, her music has been performed worldwide and has attracted high praise and radio play from The Wire, International Piano, Jazz Journal, Avant Music News, BBC Radio and Resonance FM, among many others.

The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Louana Tranmer: Becoming Sane

The exceptional young soprano Louana Tranmer will take the audience on a journey, exploring depictions of insanity in the contemporary opera and musical theatre repertoires.

The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

The Bitesize Big Band

Celebrating the Music of

Spice Fusion and all things Big Band

Featuring a ‘Live’ 12 Piece Big Band and Incredible Vocalists

This is a free event

Book your tickets now!

Eclectic Music: Top of the Poperas

Eclectic Music will return to the Minster along with several fabulous local opeaticc starts are bringing you a whole host of opera’s most well known and loved arias, duets and overtures.

Expect to hear music by Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Donizetti and more!