Hallé Orchestra
The Hallé Orchestra is one of Britain's oldest symphonic ensembles. The group has been led by several conductors who have achieved international renown and has presented the world premieres of significant works from Elgar's Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55, in 1908 to Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 7 ("Sinfonia Antartica") in 1953 to Thomas Adès' These Premises Are Alarmed in 1996.
The Hallé Orchestra is named for its founder, Charles Hallé, a German who was tasked with creating a temporary orchestra for an art exhibit in Manchester and decided to keep the group together. What he at first called the Hallé Concerts were quite popular, and Hallé remained the group's conductor until 1895. Several times, the group has gone into decline but has been rescued by a charismatic and energetic new conductor. One of these was another German, Hans Richter, who arrived in 1899 and remained until 1911 despite conflicts between orchestra-goers who favored German music (and a German conductor) and backers of homegrown talent. Both World War I and II affected the orchestra's concert life, with its home venue, the Free Trade Hall, destroyed in 1940 by bombs in the German Blitz, but it bounced back each time, under Hamilton Harty (1920-1934) and, most familiar to modern audiences, Sir John Barbirolli (1948-1970), who built up a substantial catalog of Hallé Orchestra recordings even after his retirement in 1968, when he was named conductor laureate for life. The Hallé Orchestra's recording catalog extends back to the early LP era; an early release, with Barbirolli as conductor, featured Elgar's Enigma Variations.
Under conductors James Loughran, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Kent Nagano, the orchestra continued to face periods of financial uncertainty caused partly by competition with the rival BBC Northern Orchestra. The two groups agreed to share Manchester's new Bridgewater Hall, opened in 1996 by Queen Elizabeth II (the Free Trade Hall, despite poor acoustics, had been repaired after the war), and since 2000, the orchestra has enjoyed artistic stability under music director Sir Mark Elder. The orchestra's recording catalog has grown sharply since the formation of its own Hallé label in 2003; as many as four albums per year have appeared on that imprint, and the Hallé Orchestra has continued to record for EMI, NMC, and other labels. In 2019, Elder led the orchestra in a Hallé label recording of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47.
The Hallé Orchestra collaborates with a Hallé Choir, formed by Charles Hallé himself, and, since 2002, with a Hallé Youth Orchestra. In 2023, the Hallé Orchestra announced that Kahchun Wong would succeed Elder, becoming principal conductor for the 2024-2025 season. During the 2010s and 2020s, the orchestra has been extremely prolific in the recording studio, issuing 15 albums in the year 2020 alone, despite pandemic-era restrictions. Some were on the Hallé label, but the majority were on the major Warner Classics label. By 2023, when the Hallé Orchestra issued an album of works by Dobrinka Tabakova, the orchestra's recording catalog comprised more than 150 digital releases, plus many others from the analog era.
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Artistas semelhantes
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Harrison Birtwistle: Night's Black Bird, The Shadow of Night & The Cry of Anubis
Owen Slade, Hallé Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
Classical - Lançado por NMC Recordings em 16 de mai. de 2011
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BRAHMS / MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concertos (Szigeti) (1928, 1933)
Joseph Szigeti, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Thomas Beecham, Hamilton Harty
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 11 de jan. de 2002
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Discover 20th Century Classical Music
London Symphony Orchestra, New World String Quartet, Hallé Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por imp em 1 de jan. de 1994
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Britten: The Rescue of Penelope & Phaedra
Kent Nagano, (Dame) Janet Baker, Hallé Orchestra
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por Warner Classics International em 11 de jun. de 1996
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Warner Classics em 22 de jan. de 2016
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Sir John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Infinity em 31 de mai. de 2021
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Warner Classics em 22 de jan. de 2016
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Tchaikovsky: The Great Symphonies
Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Classical - Lançado por Urania Records em 31 de mai. de 2011
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
Jean-Bernard Pommier, Hallé Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 1 de jan. de 1995
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TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1/ CHOPIN: Etudes (Solomon) (1929-1930)
Solomon, Hallé Orchestra, Hamilton Harty
Keyboard Concertos - Lançado por Naxos em 10 de mar. de 2002
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Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Hallé Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Classical - Lançado por imp em 1 de jan. de 1988
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Elgar: Symphony No. 1
Classical - Lançado por imp em 1 de jan. de 1991
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Saint-Saëns, Handel, Wagner, Mozart, Bach & Various Composers: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Cello Concerto & Various Short Works
William Henry Squire, George Thomas Pattman, Sir Hamilton Harty, Hallé Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Infinity em 5 de mai. de 2022
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Overtures
Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, Arthur Rubinstein
Classical - Lançado por Archipel em 27 de nov. de 2007
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Great Pianists : Moiseiwitsch, volume 5 (1939-1947)
Benno Moiseiwitsch, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Constant Lambert, Basil Cameron, Leslie Heward
Classical - Lançado por Naxos em 14 de jul. de 2002
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Pjotr Tschaikowski: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 (Shellac Album of 1930)
Solomon, Hallé Orchestra, Sir Hamilton Harty
Classical - Lançado por Goldberg em 31 de ago. de 2023
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Bax: Violin Concerto - Symphony No. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Dutton Epoch em 1 de jul. de 2001
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Casken: Orion over Farne
Sophia Jaffe, Hallé Orchestra, Markus Stenz
Classical - Lançado por NMC Recordings em 21 de abr. de 2014
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Symphonic Music - Lançado por Warner Classics em 22 de jan. de 2016
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Jonathan Dove: A Brief History of Creation & Gaia Theory
Hallé Children's Choir, Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
Classical - Lançado por NMC Recordings em 21 de set. de 2018
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Barbirolli at the Proms – 1954
Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli – Conductor, David Galliver - Tenor
Classical - Lançado por Guild Music em 1 de jan. de 2007
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