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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Sibelius: Symphonie No. 2 (Mono Version)
Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1963
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Watson: Cello Concerto
Alexander Baillie, Hallé Orchestra, David Angus
Classica - Pubblicato da Herald il 1 gen 2001
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Igor Stravinsky
Classica - Pubblicato da Documents il 1 set 2008
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The Great Classical Music #142 : Antonín Dvořák // Leoš Janáček
Hallé Orchestra, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, Jascha Horenstein
Classica - Pubblicato da Ermitage Records il 14 ago 2020
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Symphonies from Antonín Dvořák & Leoš Janáček
Hallé Orchestra, Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Vintage Jukebox il 14 ago 2020
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Moeran: Symphony in G Minor, R71
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Altair il 16 mag 2022
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Baroque Concertos
Classica - Pubblicato da Editions Audiovisuel Beulah il 16 dic 2014
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Bruckner: Symphony No.4
Classica - Pubblicato da imp il 1 gen 1993
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Moeran: Symphony in G minor, R71
Leslie Heward, Hallé Orchestra
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Infinity il 11 mag 2021
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Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
Classica - Pubblicato da ImpDigital il 1 gen 2000
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Smetana, Liszt, Brahms & Dvorák: The Bartered Bride - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 - Hungarian Dance No. 5 & No. 6 - Carnival Overture - Symphony No. 9
Sir Hamilton Harty, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Infinity il 25 apr 2022
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Butterworth Symphony No. 1, Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 4 (Live)
Hallé Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir John Barbirolli
Classica - Pubblicato da mpLive il 31 mag 2017
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Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Warner Classics il 22 gen 2016
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Sibelius, J.: Symphony No. 2 (Barbirolli) (1954)
Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Classical Archives il 1 gen 2000
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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 In E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World"
Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Classica - Pubblicato da Prominence Records il 4 apr 2014
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Favourite Overtures
Sir John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Classically il 21 mar 2024
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Vol. 6
Sir John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da ArnebAudio il 12 feb 2024
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Spanish Capriccio, Op. 34 (Mono Version)
Sir John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1961
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Sir John Barbirolli conducts The Hallé Orchestra of Manchester
Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Classica - Pubblicato da Ermitage Records il 5 gen 2024
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handel: Suite from Serse, HWV 40
Sir John Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Classically il 26 set 2023
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 / Bax: The Garden of Fand (Barbirolli) (1956)
Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Classical Archives il 22 giu 2007
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