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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... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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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,... — More…
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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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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 — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Choral
2 CDs
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Wagner: Die Walküre Stig Andersen (Siegmund), Yvonne Howard (Sieglinde), Clive Bayley (Hunding), Egils Silins (Wotan), Susan Bullock (Brünnhilde), Susan Bickley (Fricka)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
Elder is the driving force, with an approach that's powerfully measured and beautifully detailed, nowhere more so than in Act 1. His cast is also excellent...[Howard's] nervy, vulnerable Sieglinde... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Opera Choice
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Opera, September 2012, Recording of the Month
4 CDs
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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... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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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... — More…
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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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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.... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Orchestral Choice
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Delius: Sea Drift & Cynara Roderick Williams (baritone)
Hallé & Hallé Choir & Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder
The Halle plays with precise attacks and perfect blending, and Mark Elder directs with sure control of the episodic structure...Williams is an outstanding soloists, with well focused tone throughout... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Choral
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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:... — More…
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