What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook
- Dinsdag, oktober 6
- 19:00-22:00
- The Bridgewater Hall Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WS, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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On 6 October 2026 at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, What the World Needs Now: the Burt Bacharach Songbook brings together two singular voices around a finely crafted repertoire. Rumer, whose velvety timbre moves between orchestral pop and gentle soul, knows this terrain intimately. She has already devoted an entire album to the Bacharach & David partnership and has often engaged with their supple melodies and light‑and‑shade harmonies. Her taste for nuance, measured phrasing and the way she inhabits elegant arrangements make her a natural guide for revisiting songs such as “Walk On By,” “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Alfie,” without forcing nostalgia.
Opposite her, Ed Harcourt contributes his chamber‑like songwriting and expansive piano, born of years spent between indie pop, folk and cinematic orchestration. His sense of texture and dynamics gives the songs space: delicate strings, piano lines that breathe and voices that answer one another. Together they explore Bacharach’s melodic elasticity, allowing the song to speak above all, in a format that privileges clarity, detail and a balance between feeling and restraint. An evening conceived for listening to the songs up close, in the heart of Manchester.
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The Bridgewater Hall
Lower Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3WS, Verenigd Koninkrijk