Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (1999) more music like this

performed by Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Kim Borg (bass), Richard Lewis (tenor), Ambrosian Singers (choir, chorus), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus (choir, chorus), Hallé, John Barbirolli (conductor)
composed by Edward Elgar

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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; The Music Makers (2007) more music like this

performed by Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Kim Borg (bass), Richard Lewis (tenor), Ambrosian Singers (choir, chorus), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), London Philharmonic Chorus (choir, chorus), Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Edward Elgar

In 2007, EMI finally resolved the decades-old debate among collectors as to which is the better recording of Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius -- John Barbirolli's with the Hallé Orchestra from 1964 or Adrian Boult's with the New Philharmonia from 1975. It did this by releasing Barbirolli's Gerontius coupled with Boult's 1966 recording of ...

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8; Bax: Oboe Quintet (2002) more music like this

performed by Evelyn Rothwell (oboe), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Royal Military School of Music Band, Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, John Barbirolli (conductor)
composed by Alan Rawsthorne, Anonymous, Arnold Bax, Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton

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The Very Best of Janet Baker (2002) more music like this

performed by André Previn (piano), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Daniel Barenboim (piano), English Chamber Orchestra, Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Gerald Moore (piano), Janet Baker (alto), John Butt (organ), Timothy Hugh (cello), Ambrosian Singers (choir, chorus)
composed by Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Gustav Mahler, Henri Duparc, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Duruflé, Peter Warlock, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard Strauss

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Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica; Oboe Concerto; Elgar: Introduction & Allegro; Cockaigne (1998) more music like this

performed by Evelyn Rothwell (oboe), Lawrance Collingwood (organ), Margaret Ritchie (soprano), Philip Catelinet (tuba), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), John Barbirolli (conductor)
composed by Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Holst: The Planets more music like this

performed by Tim Pooley (viola), The Ladies of the Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
composed by Colin Matthews, Gustav Holst

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English Landscapes (2006) more music like this

performed by Lyn Fletcher (violin), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
composed by Arnold Bax, Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Gerald Finzi, John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams

Maybe you have to be English to fully appreciate this disc. One learns from the booklet that the opening of Vaughan Williams' Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 "evokes the sense of sky and space one feels in East Anglia." What details would have to be changed so that it would be evocative of, say, Bishops Itchington? Yet this disc, performed and issued by ...

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Britten: Billy Budd (1994) more music like this

performed by Northern Voices (vocals), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Manchester Boys Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, Kent Nagano (conductor)
composed by Benjamin Britten

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English Rhapsody (2003) more music like this

performed by James Gilchrist (tenor), Joseph Taylor (vocals), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
composed by English Traditional, Frederick Delius, George Butterworth, Percy Grainger

Another winner from the Hallé -- Manchester Hallé Orchestra from their founding in 1858 by conductor Charles Hallé until dropping the surname at the end of the last century. This 2008 disc called English Rhapsody features works by George Butterworth and Frederick Delius: the former's A Shropshire Lad -- Rhapsody for Orchestra, Two English Idylls, ...

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Orff: Carmina Burana more music like this

performed by Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), Peter Hall (tenor), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, Maurice Handford (conductor)
composed by Carl Orff

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Sir Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36; Dream Children, Op. 43; etc. (2004) more music like this

performed by Dennis Noble (baritone), Dora Labbette (soprano), Harold Williams (bass), Heddle Nash (tenor), Hubert Eisdell (tenor), Keith Falkner (baritone), Robert Easton (bass), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé
composed by Edward Elgar

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Favourite Christmas (1999) more music like this

performed by Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), John Dickinson (trumpet), Pamela Coburn (soprano), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé
composed by Adolphe Adam, Cecil Broadhurst, Christmas Traditional, Engelbert Humperdinck, George Frederick Handel, Hector Berlioz, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Francis Wade, Leroy Anderson, Peter Cornelius, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Sir Hamilton Harty conducts music by Mousorgsky, Balakirev.... (1998) more music like this

performed by Dennis Noble (baritone), Dora Labbette (soprano), Harold Williams (baritone), Hubert Eisdell (tenor), Robert Easton (bass), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hamilton Harty (conductor)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Arnold Bax, Edward Elgar, Hector Berlioz, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky

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Great Choral Classics more music like this

performed by Consortium Musicum, Ambrosian Singers (choir, chorus), French National Radio Chamber Orchestra (choir, chorus), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), New Philharmonia Chorus (choir, chorus), Philharmonia Chorus (choir, chorus), René Duclos Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Charles Gounod, Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Holst: The Planets; Colin Matthews: Pluto more music like this

performed by Laurence Rogers (horn), Tim Pooley (viola), The Ladies of the Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
composed by Colin Matthews, Gustav Holst

This is a reasonable performance of Holst's extremely popular orchestral suite The Planets, including a recording of the original version of the last movement of the same suite, Holst's much less well-known Lyric Movement, and a rare recording of Pluto, composer Colin Matthews' addendum to Holst's Planets. Though Mark Elder coaxes a brightly ...

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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (2008) more music like this

performed by Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Bryn Terfel (baritone), Paul Groves (tenor), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé Youth Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé
composed by Edward Elgar

For listeners who thought the day for great recordings of Elgar's sacred masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius was over, this 2008 recording by Mark Elder and the Hallé proves that in fact that day is not yet done. As they had in their magnificent recent recordings of the same composer's First Symphony and Enigma Variations, Elder and the Hallé again ...

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Ralph Vaughn Williams: The Wasps (2006) more music like this

performed by Chris Wines (vocals), Henry Goodman, Richard Suart (vocals), Hallé Choir (choir, chorus), Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor)
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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