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Review
[JF]
RECORDING OF THE MONTH
John
Ireland (1879-1962)
Mai-Dun
The Forgotten Rite
Satyricon Overture
The
Overlanders Suite (arr Mackerras)
A London Overture
Epic March
John Wilson Conductor
HALLE CD HLL 7523[67.41]
CD HLL 7523
£10 post-free world-wide
Review [JQ]
Review [AS]
Review [JW]
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
Review [MG]
Jean
SIBELIUS
(1865-1957)
Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 (1899) [39:03]1
Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52 (1907) [29:50]2
Hallé Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder
rec. 1BBC Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 1-2
August 2006. 2Bridgewater Hall, Manchester concert, 26 April
2007. DDD
HALLE CD HLL 7514 [68:58]
CD HLL 7518
£10 post-free world-wide
Review [BBr]
Claude
DEBUSSY
(1862 – 1918)
Jeux – poème dansé [19:22]
Préludes – arranged for orchestra by Colin
MATTHEWS (b. 1946):
Danseuses de Delphes (book 1, No.1)
La Sérénade interrompue (1,9)
Des pas sur la neige (1,6)
Les Fées sont d'exquises danseuses (2,4)
Voiles (1,2) [4:18]
Hommage à S Pickwick Esq, PPMPC (2,9)
Le terrasse des audiences du clair de la lune (2,7)
Bruyères (2,5)
Ondine (2,8)
Les collines d’Anacapri (1,5)
Feux d'artifice (2,12)
La cathédrale engloutie (1,10)
Colin MATTHEWS
Postlude: Monsieur Croche
Halle Orchestra/Sir Mark Elder
rec. 4 May 2008 (Des pas sur la neige); 20-21 June 2007, The Bridgewater
Hall, Manchester. DDD
HALLE CD HLL 7518 [73:35]
CD HLL 7518
£10 post-free world-wide
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
COLIN
MATTHEWS
Alphabicycle
Order (premiere recording)
Edward Gardiner conductor
Horn Concerto
Richard Watkins (horn)
Mark Elder conductor
CD HLL 7515
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
Review [Em]
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
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
RECORDING OF THE MONTH April 2006
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Wasps
Hallé conducted by Mark Elder
CD HLD 7510
2CDs
Review [GPJ]
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
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
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
Dmitry
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.1 In F Minor
Symphony No.6 In B Minor
Hallé conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
CD HLL 7506
Review [TH]
Review [JQ]
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
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
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
CARL
NIELSEN
Symphony
No. 5
Flute Concerto
Entrance
March from Aladdin
Andrew Nicholson
– Flute
Hallé
conducted by Mark Elder
CD HLL 7502
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
Review [CF]
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
