Halle
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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Elgar : Wand of Youth
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 2 nov 2018
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In Your Hands
R&B - Pubblicato da Parkwood Entertainment - Columbia il 15 mar 2024
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Sibelius : Symphonies Nos 4 & 6
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 7 feb 2020
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Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony, Oboe Concerto
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 3 ott 2011
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Holst: The Hymn of Jesus - Delius: Sea Drift, Cynara
Halle, Sir Mark Elder, Roderick Williams
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 2 set 2013
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Vaughan Williams: Job & Songs of Travel
Halle, Sir Mark Elder, Neal Davies
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 2 ott 2020
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 4
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 6 ott 2017
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Elgar: Symphony No. 1, In The South & In Moonlight
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 7 apr 2003
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Hallé Christmas Classics
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 1 set 2003
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Tabakova: Concerto for Cello and Strings: Longing
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 15 set 2023
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Elgar: Falstaff, Romance for Bassoon, Cello Concerto & Smoking Cantata
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 1 mar 2004
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Siegfried: Siegfried's Horn Call
Halle, Sir Mark Elder, Ben Goldscheider
Opera - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 17 mag 2019
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Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 3 feb 2023
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Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E Flat Introduction and Allegro
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 6 set 2004
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Symphony No. 10 in E Minor
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 2 gen 2006
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Première Rapsodie, L. 116
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 2 set 2019
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Symphony No. 7, "Sinfonia antartica": II. Scherzo: Moderato
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 1 apr 2022
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Images: I. Gigues
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 5 giu 2020
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The House of Life (Orchestrated by Roderick Williams): No. 1, Love-sight
Halle, Sir Mark Elder, Roderick Williams
Musica vocale (sacra e profana) - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 14 ott 2022
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Images: III. Rondes de printemps
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 19 giu 2020
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Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire, L. 77
Classica - Pubblicato da Halle Concerts Society il 2 set 2019
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