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Compositions Of Purpose
Mighty River was composed to mark the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Wallen’s evocative orchestral score blends contemporary classical idioms with several spirituals. As she describes, ‘It is an innate human instinct to be free,
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Mark Elder
It’s the end of an era in Manchester. And at the centre of their last season together – the 24th year of one of the most successful and long-running partnerships in British orchestral history – conductor Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé are playing one o
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We were excited to get our hands on the world-premiere recording of Fausto, Louise Bertin’s 1831 operatic retelling of the Faust story. Given just three performances in the year of its composition, the work then vanished for nearly two centuries! Now

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