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Hallé HL 7531
Wagner: Die Walküre – Stig Andersen, Yvonne Howard, Clive Bayley, Egils Silins, Susan Bullock, Susan Bickley, Miranda Keys, Elaine McKrill, Sarah Castle, Linda Finnie, Katherine Broderick, Alison Kettlewell, Ceri Williams, Leah Marian Jones, The Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
The CDs were recorded live at sell-out concerts at The Bridgewater Hall, which formed highlights of the 2011 Manchester International Festival.
‘[The Hallé’s concert performance of Die Walküre was] a two-day emotional journey that left me feeling torn apart. Act I was captivating and potent; Act II fiercely moving; Act III enough to make one rush from the hall and plunge in a Manchester canal. The gigantic orchestral climax interrupting Wotan’s Farewell was as convulsively emotional as I could want it. Subtleties of orchestral shading and balance went by like an express train. The conducting was inspired; the immense structure cohered.’
The Sunday Times, 24 July 2011
‘[The Hallé’s] Wagner is simply beautiful, and if that burnished lyricism was more glamorous than dangerous in Act I of Die Walküre, the duet with Siegmund (Stig Andersen) and Sieglinde (Yvonne Howard) had a tenderness beyond renegade intoxication. Elder is a skilful accompanist, metering the blend to suit the timbres of his cast… [he] conducted as though in love with a score that was in love with love itself.’
The Independent on Sunday, 24 July 2011
Recorded live at sell out concerts at The Bridgewater Hall which formed highlights of the 2011 Manchester International Festival
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"... [The Hallé’s] Wagner is simply beautiful, and if that burnished lyricism was more glamorous than dangerous in Act I of Die Walküre, the duet with Siegmund (Stig Andersen) and Sieglinde (Yvonne Howard) had a tenderness beyond renegade intoxication. Elder is a skilful accompanist, metering the blend to suit the timbres of his cast … [he] conducted as though in love with a score that was in love with love itself."
The Independent on Sunday - July 2011
" [The Hallé’s concert performance of Die Walküre was] a two-day emotional journey that left me feeling torn apart. Act I was captivating and potent; Act II fiercely moving; Act III enough to make one rush from the hall and plunge in a Manchester canal. The gigantic orchestral climax interrupting Wotan’s Farewell was as convulsively emotional as I could want it. Subtleties of orchestral shading and balance went by like an express train. The conducting was inspired; the immense structure cohered."
The Sunday Times - July 2011
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