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 ELGAR
OVERTURE: FROISSART
DREAM CHILDREN NOs.1 AND 2
THE MUSIC MAKERS
JANE IRWIN MEZZO-SOPRANO
HALLÉ CHOIR CHORAL DIRECTOR JAMES BURTON
J.S. BACH orch. ELGAR
FANTASIA AND FUGUE IN C MINOR, BWV 537
MARK ELDER CONDUCTOR
'Music is in the air all around you. You just take as much of it as you want.'
Edward Elgar
- The Hallé's latest CD is a major addition to their highly acclaimed 'Elgar Edition' series.
- The studio recordings took place days after the music was performed live at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
'Mark Elder further expounded his Elgar credentials by conducting a superb performance.'
The Sunday Telegraph
'Elder, an inspired Elgarian who has a special relationship with this music.' The Independent
- This is the first time in a decade that this music has been recorded, and the different works perfectly illustrate the different aspects of Elgar's personality. Froissart shows him to be extrovert and brilliant - and strikingly beautiful. Dream Children are tender and moving, and superbly inventive.
- Each Hallé disc includes a musical rarity, something particularly special. Here is Bach as heard through Elgar's eyes and ears. Elgar said, 'I wanted to show how gorgeous and great and brilliant Bach would have made it sound if he had our means.'
- Based on Arthur O'Shaughnessy's ode, The Music Makers is unique amongst Elgar's compositions. It is packed with quotations from other works, especially Enigma, but stands alone as a dramatic, disturbing picture of the loneliness of the artist. He wrote, 'I have written out my soul in the Violin Concerto, Symphony No.2 and the Ode' and when you hear it, you believe him.
'The Orchestra's playing and the Hallé Choir's singing blazed with conviction and Jane Irwin was in rich voice as the mezzo soloist.'
The Sunday Telegraph |
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