Mark Elder, Hallé Orchestra – Gustav Holst: The Planets, Colin Matthews: Pluto (2002)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:57:06 minutes | Full Scans included | 1,98 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Hyperion SACDA67270
When Gustav Holst composed his celebrated suite ‘The Planets’ during the First World War, the solar system was bounded by the orbit of Neptune (‘The Mystic’ in Holst’s astrological subtitle)—which Holst naturally placed at the end of his masterpiece. It was not until fifteen years later that American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, trying to find the reason for peculiarities in Neptune’s orbit, realised that there was another planet further out whose gravitational pull was influencing it. And so was discovered the dark, remote and mysterious world of Pluto, named after the king of the Underworld. The discovery was made but three years before Holst’s death, but he never expressed any intention of adding it to his by then famous work. Sixty years later, invited to do so by The Hallé Orchestra, the challenge was taken up by Colin Matthews whose ‘Pluto—The Renewer’ emerges eerily from the disappearing final bars of ‘Neptune’. This is the first recording of Holst’s ‘Planets’ with the additional planet, sumptuously recorded by Tony Faulkner in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
The recording also includes Holst’s late Lyric Movement for viola and chamber orchestra, written in 1933, the year before Holst died.
Read moreHallé Orchestra, Delyana Lazarova, Guy Johnston & Maxim Rysanov – Dobrinka Tabakova (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:56 minutes | 700 MB | Genre: Classical
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This album marks the culmination of two special Hallé collaborations and includes four major pieces from one of the most distinctive of current British compositional voices.
Delyana Lazarova (Hallé Assistant Conductor 2020-23) and composer Dobrinka Tabakova (Hallé Artist in Residence 2022-23) were both born in the historic city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Working together for the first time during their time with the orchestra they formed a strong musical connection in which the Hallé musicians displayed a close understanding of the intricacies and dialect of Tabakova’s musical language.
Read moreHallé Orchestra, Mark Elder – Debussy – Images & Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:42 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder follow their previous highly acclaimed Debussy albums, with a stunning orchestral collection including a world premiere recording. Album includes the hugely popular Prélude a L’après-midi d’un faune, alongside the orchestral tour de force Images, a work which fully displays the composer’s mastery, and the world premiere recording of Colin Matthew’s orchestration of Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut, from the 2nd Book of Images for piano.
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