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Special offer. Elgar: Violin Concerto
RecommendedThomas Zehetmair (violin), Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
Zehetmair...is able to marry impassioned purpose with appreciation of Elgar's complexity...Mark Elder's direction is stunning...there's a warm glow about the Hallé sound that adds an extra strand... —
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Concerto
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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,... —
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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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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... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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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... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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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. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' & Symphony No. 9
Hallé Orchestra, Sopranos and Altos of the Hallé Choir, Mark Elder, Matthew Hamilton
It concludes Elder and the Hallé’s cycle of Vaughan Williams’s symphonies, one which has been consistently gripping in its trenchant honesty and patient empathy for the composer’s idiom. —
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Record Review, 4th June 2022, Record of the Week
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
RecommendedMasabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Kahchun Wong
Wong's interpretation is at its best in the 'Resurrection' Symphony's two outer movements...Wong links the music's tumultuous sequence of ideas in a way that's impressive and convincing. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51
RecommendedClaire Rutter (The Blessed Virgin Mary), Susan Bickley (Mary Magdalene), John Hudson (St. John), Iain Paterson (St. Peter)
Hallé & Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder
There are...moments of inwardness and spirituality where the gleam of the cor anglais and Elgar's ever-emotional divided-string writing make their mark —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Wagner: Das Rheingold
Samuel Youn (Alberich), Iain Paterson (Wotan), Susan Bickley (Fricka), Emma Bell (Freia), Reinhard Hagen (Fasolt), Clive Bayley (Fafner), David Stout (Donner), David Butt Philip (Froh), Will Hartmann (Loge), Nicky Spence (Mime) & Susanne Resmark (Erda)
The Halle, Sir Mark Elder
The Hallé’s strings don’t have the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s lustre in Jaap van Zweden Naxos version, and the recording isn’t as vivid; but with the glowing brass transition to the heights, the... —
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Record Review, 2nd June 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Special offer. Elgar: Sea Pictures & Pomp and Circumstance Marches
Alice Coote (mezzo soprano)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
The way [Coote] peels away the varnish of received interpretation can be thrilling, even in Elgar's Sea Pictures...Elder's handling of the orchestra...is wonderful, and where necessary discreet:... —
