Hallé
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Special offer. Elgar: Oratorios
The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles & The Kingdom
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
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Special offer. Elgar: A Self-Portrait
Jane Irwin (mezzo soprano)
Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Chorus, Mark Elder
…Elder maintains a tension and sense of belief that The Music Makers very seldom receives. Beautifully balanced and superbly paced, this deeply sympathetic and intensely-felt reading is perhaps... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Editor's Choice
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Fans of the Hallé will be delighted with Mark Elder's intense but spacious accounts of the tone poems here… Schwanewilms often begins with lines of instrumental purity, beautifully attuned... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. For the fallen: Elgar & Bax
Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Joshua Ellicott (narrator), Jennifer France (soprano), Madeleine Shaw (mezzo)
Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder
Elgar’s beautifully imagined score [of A Voice in the Wilderness] is graced with two very fine performances, from Joshua Ellicott’s narrator (his delivery and accent are pitched exactly right),... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Choral
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Job & Songs of Travel
Neal Davies (baritone), Darius Battiwalla, David Adams, Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
Elder’s Hallé are particularly good at catching the strongly English flavour of the work, and its umbilical connections to folk dance. The playing is sharply etched and bristling with confidence...Even... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Elgar: Symphony No. 1
RecommendedChristine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
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.... —
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Special offer. Wagner: Parsifal
Lars Cleveman (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Sir John Tomlinson (Gurnemanz), Detlef Roth (Amfortas), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Reinhard Hagen (Titurel)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
The Hallé offers playing worthy of the orchestra’s long Wagner tradition. Elder’s very slow Prologue reminds us of his journeyman days under Reginald Goodall, leading into a luminous, measured... —
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…supremely well executed by the Hallé, in even finer form that we have learned to expect in the last few years. The playing is of fierce precision and immense power. —
