Hallé

[Matthews] conveys the poetry's underlying menace, overlaying the chorus's music with diaphanous string harmonies like acrid vapour...[Crossing the Alps] seems to blend Holst's mysticism with... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…supremely well executed by the Hallé, in even finer form that we have learned to expect in the last few years. The playing is of fierce precision and immense power. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

There are long, noble stretches but the conflict zones of the first movement lack that last degree of urgency…the the magic happens: where some interpretations fall at the last hurdle, the great... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This is a performance [of No. 5], in short in which every detail has been carefully thought out in the context of an evolving structure ... If I had to live with a single account of this great... — Gramophone Magazine More…

the inner movements, almost wherever you sample them, show Elder with his finger...surely on the pulse and his orchestra...resourceful in its colours and sheer heft. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

Skrowaczewski combined something of the orchestra's sophistication with the unequivocal directness which emerges from his own uncompromising honesty in interpretation — The Times More…

This is a beautifully paced performance - measured, poetic but dynamic. The orchestra responds superbly....Katarina Dalayman is one of the most appealing Brünnhildes on disc, Lars Cleveman a... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Hallé offers playing worthy of the orchestra’s long Wagner tradition. Elder’s very slow Prologue reminds us of his journeyman days under Reginald Goodall, leading into a luminous, measured... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…