HALLÉ
ENGLISH LANDSCAPES
Mark Elder - conductor

ARNOLD BAX
Tintagel
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Lark Ascending
Lyn Fletcher - violin
GERALD FINZI
The Fall of the Leaf - Elegy for Orchestra, Op.20
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Norfolk Rhapsody No.1
FREDERICK DELIUS
Two pieces for small orchestra, RT VI/19
II - Summer Night on the River
I - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
EDWARD ELGAR
As Torrents in Summer (from 'King Olaf')
Hallé Choir
JOHN IRELAND
The Hills
Hallé Choir

'The Hallé's exceptional leader, Lyn Fletcher, delivered a fleetingly evanescent account of The Lark Ascending.'
The Guardian

• The latest release on the Hallé label brings together a stunning collection of works inspired by the English landscape including the ever popular Tintagel and Norfolk Rhapsody No.1.
  
  
• Vaughan Williams's hauntingly beautiful The Lark Ascending is one of his most enduringly popular works, with its title taken from a poem by George Meredith. This serence romance may seem simply and yet it is of considerable originality, capturing the idyllic mood of a pre-1914 England.
  
  
• This CD also features Finzi's rarely-performed minature tone poem, The Fall of the Leaf. At Finzi's death the piece, originally a piano duet, was only partly orchestrated and it was left to his life-long friend, Howard Ferguson, to complete the score.
  
  
• The first performance of The Fall of the Leaf was given by the Hallé under the direction of Sir John Barbirolli on 11 December 1957.