Browse: Hallé (label)

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:... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 3 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

Taken altogether, the dramatis personae in this production work at a high level of British theater acting..the ensemble performance here is outstanding. The recorded sound is excellent, perfectly... — Fanfare, July/August 2023 More…

I'm not surprised that Colin Matthews says that he hugely enjoyed writing Alphabicycle Order, a setting of 26 nonsense poems by Christopher Reid. The young choristers are plainly having a ball,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…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. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Hallé are resplendent under Mark Elder, with ravishing colours and finely etched detail… — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 3 out of 5 stars More…

[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... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Skrowaczewski combined something of the orchestra's sophistication with the unequivocal directness which emerges from his own uncompromising honesty in interpretation — The Times More…

the inner movements, almost wherever you sample them, show Elder with his finger...surely on the pulse and his orchestra...resourceful in its colours and sheer heft. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…