Halle Concerts Society

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antartica" & Symphony No. 9

Halle

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jun 3, 2022

Premiered by the Hallé under Sir John Barbirolli in 1953, the Sinfonia antartica originated in Vaughan Williams’ score for the film Scott of the Antar ...

Vaughan Williams: The Complete Symphonies

Halle

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jun 3, 2022

Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Nov 3, 2014

The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams seems to have found its ideal contemporary interpreters in the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester and conductor Mark El ...

Wagner: Parsifal

Richard Wagner

Opera - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jun 2, 2017

Recorded in 2013 at the BBC Proms in celebration of Richard Wagner's bicentennial year, this semi-staged concert performance of Parsifal with the Hall ...

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Sep 4, 2015

Few symphonies are as compelling and moving as Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony, a setting for soprano, baritone, choir, and large orchestra on ...

Wagner: Die Walküre

Richard Wagner

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on May 14, 2012

Debussy: Images & Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Halle

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jul 3, 2020

A somewhat unusual interpretation of Debussy – more lyrical than rhythmic. Here, Sir Mark Elder presents a slightly melancholic version of Images pour ...

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jan 25, 2013

For this 2013 release, Mark Elder leads the Hallé Orchestra in a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 5 in D, which was recorded live a ...

Brahms: Piano Concertos

Johannes Brahms

Concertos - Released by Halle Concerts Society on May 5, 2017

Hallé and Sir Mark Elder are reunited with Sunwook Kim in long awaited studio recordings of repertoire with which he won the Leeds Piano Competition. ...

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 4

Halle

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Oct 6, 2017

Two of the greatest symphonies from England's greatest symphonist, Vaughan Williams: what a find! To cut a long story short, he composed nine symphoni ...

Vaughan Williams: Job & Songs of Travel

Halle

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Oct 2, 2020

We find here two of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ little-known and little-played masterpieces. Up first is Songs of Travel, a cycle of nine melodies based o ...

Wagner Siegfried

Richard Wagner

Opera - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jun 7, 2019

English Spring (Bax, Delius, Bridge)

Mark Elder

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on May 23, 2011

One of the pleasures of the album English Spring is the fact that it skips the overplayed standards like Delius' On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring ...

Préludes de Claude Debussy (arrangés pour orchestre)

Claude Debussy

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jul 1, 2010

Musical literalists may not be pleased with Colin Matthews' free orchestral arrangements of the 24 movements of Debussy's two books of Préludes pour l ...

English Landscapes (Bax, Finzi, Elgar, Ireland...)

Mark Elder

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Oct 2, 2006

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Edward Elgar

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Mar 20, 2003

Elgar's Enigma Variations, Cockaigne Overture, and Serenade for Strings have been recorded extremely often, but rarely any better than they are here b ...

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

Hallé Youth Choir

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Oct 6, 2008

Elgar : Wand of Youth

Sir Mark Elder

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Nov 2, 2018

A possibly unique and certainly unusual feature of Edward Elgar's compositional career is that in old age he raided his teenage notebooks for material ...

Sibelius : Symphonies Nos 4 & 6

Sir Mark Elder

Symphonic Music - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Feb 7, 2020

Thus Sir Mark Elder finishes his Sibelius collection, just as the very young Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali begins his own with Alpha, alread ...

Wagner Das Rheingold

Halle

Opera - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Jun 1, 2018

Recorded live in November 2016, this Rheingold by the Hallé Orchestra from Manchester, conducted by Mark Elder, gathers the cream of the great and mos ...

Debussy: Nocturnes

Halle

Classical - Released by Halle Concerts Society on Nov 1, 2019

The Hallé Orchestra has played Debussy well for a long time, and the group's recent recordings under Sir Mark Elder have attracted critical notice. Th ...