Hallé Orchestra
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony' RecommendedKatherine Broderick (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Hallé, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Ad Solem, Sir Mark Elder
Mark Elder's Vaughan Williams cycle with The Halle is turning out to be the finest since the two by Adrian Boult - and the opening bars of this live recording of A Sea Symphony show why. The... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th September 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto and Symphony
Adam Walker (flute), Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Hallé, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth, Edward Gardner
Cast in the conventional three movements, [the Flute Concerto] dances through a musical landscape full of light and shade. Its invigorating sense of pace and momentum is beautifully caught by... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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These live performances of the composer’s two official symphonies date from 2018 and 2021. They show conductor, orchestra and music working together in perfect harmony. Obvious signs? Well,... — More…
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[the Tallis Fantasia] is tight-reined, yet also singing and surging with no trace of anti-Romantic tendentiousness...But what makes this release so special is Elder and the Hallé's interpretation... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Orchestral
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Firstly, the Hallé's stellar playing: it's genuinely hard to imagine how music of this English vintage could be performed better. Not only is everything beautifully idiomatic and clear, there's... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Elder's way with Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony is one of those interpretations that grows with repeated hearings. As expected from the current Halle vintage, it's finely played in every department,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Elder builds his climaxes carefully, and judges their relative effect with a sculptural objectivity that enhances rather than lessens the total impression…What moved me most, though, was the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Hallé sustains an Elgar tradition dating all the way back to its premiere of his First symphony…and here it is to be heard in full bloom…These are exemplary accounts with well-chosen tempos... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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under Elder, [Pohjola's Daughter is] a primal folktale rather than an urbane fantasy...[in the Symphony] Elder's elemental strength, relieved by a sense of light and space and the Halle's intense... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Orchestral Choice
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The main focus of this disc from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé is an outstanding recording of the First Symphony, but I chose it here mainly because of the first-rate account of In the South.... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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