Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony Orchestral & Concertos Classical Halle

Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony

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HL 7542

Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony

Label Catalogue Number:
CD HLL 7542

Running Time: 70:16

Digital UPC: 5065001341489

Release Date: October 2015
Originally recorded in 2014

Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Solo soperano
Katherine Broderick

Solo baritone
Roderick Williams

Orchestra
Halle Orchestra

Conductor
Sir Mark Elder

Orchestra
Hallé Choir

Orchestra
Halle Youth Choir

Venue
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Producer
Steve Portnoi

Engineer
Steve Portnoi

Genre:
Orchestral & Concertos
Classical

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"Elder has a number of outstanding collaborators: the Hallé of course and two exceptional soloists, finely matched, of whom Roderick Williams delivers the most rounded and musically expressive account of the baritone part I have heard, every word dead in tune and crystal-clear in enunciation. Quite apart from those qualities, Williams’s grasp of the musical nature of the work is total. Katherine Broderick is equally impressive, and the combined choral forces are of exceptional quality as is the recording balance, which is well-judged throughout. The result is a release that should be in every collection of British music: it is a triumph."

Robert Matthew Walker - ClassicalSource.com - January 2016

Album of the Week

"...This is a treasurable memnto of a thrilling live performance."

Hugh Canning - The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) - 18 October 2015

"This A Sea Symphony ranks highly with the best ..."

Ian Lace - MusicWeb-International.com - 12 November 2015

Performance **** Recording *****

"From start to finish we’re presented with a feast of virtually flawless choral singing, and orchestral playing. The interplay of the various semi-chorus passages comes across to near-perfection in the Bridgewater Hall acoustic, and the stellar quality of the Hallé’s principal players shines in ’The Explorer’, with leader Lyn Flatcher offering one beautifully poised violin solo after another,,, "

Malcolm Hayes - BBC Music magazine - November 2015

Editor’s Choice - Orchestral Section

"...the gloriously ambitious finale is held together with effortless authority, those sublimely contemplative and illimitably rapt closing pages as full of questing wonder as I can ever recall The superbly honed choral and orchestral contribution surely testifies to many hours of painstaking preparation, and Steve Portnoi’s Birdgewater Hall production accomodates the intrepidly wide range of dynamic ease ..."

Andrew Achenbach - Gramophone magazine - Awards Edition - 2015

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