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Article: Review:Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Town Hall, Leeds
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- March 9, 2004
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David Denton
Those of us who lived through the John Barbirolli era with the
Halle used to choke back tears as the human soul was carried with
tenderness to its final resting place at the close of Elgar's The
Dream of Gerontius.
Nowadays, we search in vain for performances at that level of
inspiration, and hearts sank at the sight of the Manchester
Camerata's meagre quantity of strings on the Town Hall stage.
With almost 200 virile voices of the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus and
Elgar Choral behind them, they never stood a chance of a realistic
balance in the big choral sections, the weak sound from four cellos
and two double basses making a nonsense of Elgar's scoring.
Of course we had the ...