Halle has us humming all the way home...

Date published: 09 May 2014


CONDUCTOR Carl Davis and the Halle Orchestra wove a web of music plucked from the world of “Spies and Spooks”.

The show had music from 17 blockbusters of stage and screen, which meant classic sounds kept on coming with music from Where Eagles Dare, Indiana Jones and James Bond, The Ipcress File, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and others.

There were superb saxophone and violin solos, with James Muirhead on the sax playing a section of John Williams’ scores from the Leonardo DeCaprio film Catch Me If You Can and Paul Barritt on the violin playing the delightful romance from Shostakovish’s suite The Gadfly, used as the theme music to Reilly, Ace of Spies.

Other highlights of a hugely versatile concert were the quirky and humorous Harry Lime Theme from The Third Man and the instantly recognisable Lalo Schifrin theme from Mission Impossible with its infectious rhythm: both had me humming them all the way home.