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Special offer. 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... —
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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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[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... —
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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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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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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. 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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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... —
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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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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: The Wasps
Henry Goodman (narrator)
Hallé Orchestra & Chorus, Mark Elder
This recording has just about everything: robust comedy, sharp wit, sensuous delight, emotional uplift and food for thought all in one package. —
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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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. Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony & Oboe Concerto
Stéphane Rancourt (oboe)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
The throw themselves so fully into the texture and colour of the piece it becomes almost visual - captured are not only the hansom cabs, street-sellers' cries, Cockney mouth organs and accordions... —
