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| The Bridgewater Corridor, Manchester |
The Bridgewater Corridor in Manchester is celebrating its thirtieth birthday! The opening live performance was on 11 September 1996 and the corridor has simply introduced a celebratory 2026/27 season.
Manchester’s historic live performance venue, the Free Commerce Corridor (which was inbuilt 1853-56 on the positioning of the Peterloo Bloodbath) was broken in World Warfare Two and patched up within the Nineteen Fifties. It remained a considerably unsatisfactory live performance venue till the Bridgewater Corridor’s plans got here to fruition. The brand new corridor is called for the third Duke of Bridgewater whose eponymous canal runs by means of Manchester (and is usually described as the primary nice achievement of the canal age). Paradoxically, the Bridgewater Corridor truly sits on a specifically constructed arm of the Rochdale Canal!
Nearly to the day there’s a thirtieth anniversary live performance which brings collectively varied strands of Manchester’s music making together with visitor artists Rowetta, Matt Wilde, Banksie, Roberto and Vulva Voce. The night can even see the debut of the Better Manchester Youth Orchestra which is being led artistically by Untold Orchestra, a Manchester-based collective identified for revolutionary, genre-crossing orchestral work.
The BBC Philharmonic continues its season within the corridor starting with Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5, and that includes Simone Younger and pianist Cédric Tiberghien in Schumann’s Konzertstück Op. 92 and Introduction and Live performance Allegro Op. 134 plus Strauss’s Alpine Symphony (fairly a live performance!), Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique, Brahms’ Requiem, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, and ending with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The Hallé Orchestra opens its daring season below music director Kahchun Wong with Thomas Adès, whose work
These Premises Are Alarmed was premiered on the Corridor’s very first
live performance in 1996, returning as Principal Visitor Conductor (see my season preview for additional particulars)
The Worldwide Live performance Sequence brings orchestras from Germany, Ukraine and Japan to Manchester alongside recitals, opera and chamber music, opening with The Sixteen and concluding with trumpeter Matilda Lloyd and the Goldmund Quartet.
Visiting orchestras embrace NDR Philharmonie Hannover below Stanislav Kochanovsky; Stuttgart Philharmonic with pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason; the London Philharmonic Orchestra pairing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto (with Benjamin Grosvenor) with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10; Sinfonia of London below John Wilson in Walton’s Viola Concerto with Edgar Francis, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances; the Ukrainian Nationwide Philharmonic Orchestra below Theodore Kuchar, and Osaka Philharmonic below Tadaaki Otaka with Viktoria Mullova in Prokofiev.
Opera North current Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and different guests embrace pianist Angela Hewitt, Sir Karl Jenkins conducting The Armed Man, Freya Ridings, Katherine Jenkins, African Soul Rebels, Bellowhead and Rebecca Ferguson.
Affiliate Artist Jonathan Scott presents a season of lunchtime organ live shows celebrating 30 years of the Corridor’s Marcussen Live performance Organ, whereas Manchester Noon Music – one of many UK’s longest-running lunchtime live performance sequence, based in 1915 – returns for a full new season.
Additional particulars from the corridor’s web site.
