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Special offer. A Shropshire Lad
English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams
Roderick Williams (baritone), Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
Williams is accompanied throughout by his own orchestral reimaginings; and he’s evidently an orchestrator with a fine ear and lively imagination...This is all exquisitely sung too. The melodic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra
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Special offer. Dobrinka Tabakova: Orpheus' Comet, Earth Suite & Concertos
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Guy Johnston (cello), Hallé Orchestra, Delyana Lazarova
Complex but richly communicative, her compositions demonstrate this blend [of mind and heart' to a tee...Beautifully performed and recorded, this is a first-rate release, offering a timely showcase... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Special offer. Huw Watkins: Fanfare; Symphony No. 2; Concerto For Orchestra
Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
Colourful, imaginatively structured, communicative without being banal, Huw Watkins's music usually spreads instant delight...Pleasure is further enhanced by the pairing of the Hallé's skills... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Orchestral Choice
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The most immediately exciting piece is actually the shortest: the two-and-ahalf minute fanfare written in 2021 to mark the opening of a French arts centre designed by Frank Gehry. Fourteen trumpeters... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Matthews - Horn Concerto & Alphabicycle Order
Richard Watkins (horn), Henry Goodman (narrator)
Halle, Children’s Choir (Hallé Youth Choir & Cantores Roborienses), Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner
I'm not surprised that Colin Matthews says that he hugely enjoyed writing Alphabicycle Order, a setting of 26 nonsense poems by Christopher Reid. The young choristers are plainly having a ball,... —
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The diaphonous atmospheric detail from the strings and subtle wind colouring in Jeux, Debussy's poème dansé, require great delicacy of feeling and sensuous caressing from the violins in the... —
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Special offer. Hallé: A Christmas Celebration
Hallé, Hallé Youth & Hallé Children’s Choirs, Stephen Bell
The singing is hearty if unsubtle —
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Special offer. Christmas Classics
Claire Rutter (soprano), Eric Traulert (treble)
Hallé Orchestra & Choir, Carl Davis
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Special offer. Colin Matthews: No Man’s Land, Crossing The Alps & Aftertones
Roderick Williams (baritone), Ian Bostridge (tenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
Hallé & Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé, Nicholas Collon, Richard Wilberforce
[Matthews] conveys the poetry's underlying menace, overlaying the chorus's music with diaphanous string harmonies like acrid vapour...[Crossing the Alps] seems to blend Holst's mysticism with... —
