The internationally famous Hallé Orchestra travel over the Pennines from Manchester this Saturday, 17 October. With guest conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens at the helm, they bring with them a diverse programme featuring Rossini’s Overture to The Silken Ladder, Dvořák’s Violin Concerto and Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony.

The soloist for the evening is Jack Liebeck, here to perform Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. Described as ‘one of the most compelling young violinists on the concert platform’ he has performed around the world and recorded as soloist on film scores such as Jane Eyre (2011) and Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Nominated soundtrack for Anna Karenina (2013).

The programme concludes with Vaughan Williams’ second symphony – titled A London Symphony, though Vaughan Williams once said that it could better be titled ‘Symphony by a Londoner’ as that’s what he considered himself to be. Although he was regarded as responsible for the gathering and recording of folk music at the start of the 20th century and branded an English pastoralist composer, he was a city-boy at heart.

Tickets are priced £12.50-£33.50 and are available from the Box Office on 0113 224 3801 or book online here. 50% discounts are available for students, under 18s and jobseekers. Plus, if you’re under 26 you can purchase tickets for an orchestral concert for just £5 in the seven days before the concert.

Beverley Logan