Sir Edward Elgar
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The LSO plays out of its skin for the composer; Falstaff is brilliantly characterised, the Symphony has serious intensity. Fair sound for the vintage, with some harshness in the Symphony. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th February 2009
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Building a Library, October 2016, Historic Choice
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Elgar Remastered
By Lani Spahr
Beatrice Harrison (cello), Princess Victoria H.R.H. (piano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
New Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Festival Choir, Sir Edward Elgar, Lawrance Collingwood
So many details in the First Symphony stand out as never before. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Elgar conducts Elgar
RecommendedBeatrice Harrison (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Edward Elgar
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th January 2008
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade To Music
Isobel Baillie (soprano), Berkeley Mason, Elsie Suddaby (soprano), Madame Adami, Eva Turner, Lillian Stiles-Allen, Lilian Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra (band), Mary Jarred, Walter Widdop, Percy Kahn, Parry Jones, William Thomas Best,...
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This set gives an invaluable historical cross-section of Antipodean singers in both commercial and rare archive recordings. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Ian Hare (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Elgar: Violin Concerto & Enigma Variations
RecommendedYehudi Menuhin (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra & Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Sir Edward Elgar
a passing of the musical baton from one generation to the next if ever there was one, and a very moving one at that. Elgar's reading is an aptly broad, reflective one, while Menuhin's playing... — More…
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Building a Library, July 2001, Historic Choice
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Elgar conducts Elgar
Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Elgar
The sound is hardly state-of-the-art, but it's clear, powerful and focused, with background hiss virtually eliminated… No one has conducted Elgar better than Elgar himself. The daringly fast... — More…
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Yehudi Menuhin: The Great Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe, Constantini Silvestri, Walter Susskind, Efrem Kurtz, Sir Edward Elgar
He was a child prodigy whose early virtuosity blossomed into genius, unmatched throughout his life by any of his contemporaries……...He was one of the greatest violinists of the century. — More…
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Edward Elgar
Beatrice Harrison (cello), Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Munchner Symphoniker, Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Jorg Faerber, Edward Elgar
4 CDs
$24.25
