Hallé
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Matthews's transcription of Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon...is both extremely beautiful and very fine...The disc’s main raisons d’être, however, are Nocturnes and La damoiselle... —
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Special offer. Elgar: Cello Concerto and other works
Heinrich Schiff (cello), Graham Salvage (bassoon), Andrew Shore (baritone)
Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
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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... —
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Skrowaczewski combined something of the orchestra's sophistication with the unequivocal directness which emerges from his own uncompromising honesty in interpretation —
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Katarina Dalayman (Brünnhilde), Lars Cleveman (Siegfried), Peter Coleman-Wright (Gunther), Attila Jun (Hagen), Nancy Gustafson (Gutrune), Susan Bickley (Waltraute), Andrew Shore (Alberich)
The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
This is a beautifully paced performance - measured, poetic but dynamic. The orchestra responds superbly....Katarina Dalayman is one of the most appealing Brünnhildes on disc, Lars Cleveman a... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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