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ELGAR

Review

Edward ELGAR
The Dream of Gerontius
Alice Coote - angel
Paul Groves - Gerontius
Bryn Terfel - Priest/Angel of the Agony
Sir Mark Elder conductor

CD HLD 7520

2CDs

WAGNER

Review

RICHARD WAGNER
The Flying Dutchman Overture
Parsifal: Prelude to Act I & Good Friday Music (Act III)
Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod
Die Meistersinger: Overture & Prelude to Act III

Anja Kampe, soprano
Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7517

MATTHEWS

COLIN MATTHEWS
Alphabicycle Order (premiere recording)
Edward Gardiner conductor
Horn Concerto
Richard Watkins (horn)
Mark Elder conductor

CD HLL 7515

DEBUSSY

Review
RECORDING OF THE MONTH May 2007

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
La Mer
DEBUSSY arranged for orchestra by COLIN MATTHEWS
Preludes:
Brouillards - Ce qu'a vu le Vent d'Ouest – Minstrels – Canope - Les sons et les parfums - La Puerta del Vino - Feuilles mortes - General Lavine-excentric - La danse de Puck - Les tierces alternées - Le vent dans la plaine - La fille aux cheveux de lin

Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7513

ENGLISH LANDSCAPES

Review

ENGLISH LANDSCAPES

Bax: Tintagel / Delius: On Hearing The First Cuckoo in Spring / Summer Night on the River
Elgar: As torrents in summer* / Finzi: Fall of the Leaf
Ireland: The Hills* / Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending + / Norfolk Rhapsody No.1

Lyn Fletcher, violin +
Hallé Choir *
Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7512

SHOSTAKOVICH

Review

Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 5 in D minor Op. 47
Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93

Hallé conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

CD HLD 7511

2CDs

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Review

RECORDING OF THE MONTH April 2006

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The Wasps

Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLD 7510

2CDs

ELGAR

Review

SIR EDWARD ELGAR
A Self Portrait
ELGAR: Overture - Froissart, Op.19, Dream Children, Op.43, The Music Makers
BACH: Orch. ELGAR Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537/Op.86

Hallé conducted by Mark Elder, Jane Irwin – mezzo soprano

CD HLL 7509

STRAUSS

Review

BARGAIN OF THE MONTH May 2005

RICHARD STRAUSS

Tone Poem Don Juan Lieder - Anne Schwanewilms / Soprano
Die Heiligen drei Königen
Waldseligkeit
Wiegenlied
Morgen!
Das Rosenband
Meinem Kinde
Befreit
Tone Poem Macbeth

Hallé conducted by Mark Elder,
Anne Schwanewilms - Soprano

CD HLL 7508

ELGAR

Review

SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Introduction And Allegro For Strings, Op.47 (1904-1905)
Percey Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou Spirit Of Delight! Read by Mark Elder
Symphony No.2 in E flat, Op.63 (1909-1911)

Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7507

Review

Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.1 In F Minor
Symphony No.6 In B Minor

Hallé conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

CD HLL 7506

ELGAR

Review

ELGAR
Cello Concerto
Falstaff
Romance For Bassoon
Smoking Cantata

Heinrich Schiff, Cello
Graham Salvage, Bassoon
Andrew Shore, Baritone
Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7505

CHRISTMAS CLASSICS

Review

CHRISTMAS CLASSICS
Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975): Sleigh Ride (1948)
Smart/Montgomery: Angels From The Realms of Glory (arr. Cullen)
Trad: Nativity Carol (arr. Rutter)
Livingston & Evans: Silver Bells (arr. Cullen)
Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio: The World you're coming into
Trad: The First Nowell (arr. Gould)
Mason/Watts: Joy To The World! (arr. Rutter)
Leontovich/Wilhausky: Carol of the Bells (arr. Hayman)
Adam/Dwight: O Holy Night (arr. Cullen)
J. S. Bach : Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Davis/Newell: The Most Wonderful Birthday Of All
Pierpont: Jingle Bells (arr. Gould)
Martin & Blane: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (arr. Cullen, rev. Davis)
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Waltz Of The Snowflakes from The Nutcracker
Irving Berlin: White Christmas (arr. Cullen)

Claire Rutter – Soprano
Eric Traulert – Treble
Halle conducted by Carl Davis

CD HLL 7504

ENGLISH RHAPSODY

Review

ENGLISH RHAPSODY

GEORGE BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad, Two English Idylls, The Banks of Green Willow
Frederick DELIUS: Prelude To Irmelin, Walk To The Paradise Green: Intermezzo, Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody
Percy GRAINGER: Brigg Fair

James Gilchrist – tenor
Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7503

NIELSEN

Review

CARL NIELSEN
Symphony No. 5
Flute Concerto
Entrance March from Aladdin

Andrew Nicholson – Flute
Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7502

ELGAR

Review

SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Enigma Variations Op.36
Serenade For Strings Op.20
Cockaigne (In LondonTown) Op.40
Salut D’amour Op.12

Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7501

ELGAR

Review [CF]

Review [JQ]

Review [BBr]

SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Symphony No.1 In A Flat Op.55
In The South (Alassio) Op.50
In Moonlight *

* Christine Rice – mezzo-soprano
* Mark Elder – piano

Hallé conducted by Mark Elder

CD HLL 7500