Concertos, Violin Concertos, Elgar (composer)
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Elgar: Violin Concerto
RecommendedVilde Frang (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
A new version which stands comparison with the best. Frang’s initial entry is immediately soulful and introspective, intently tuning in to Robin Ticciati’s compelling account of the long orchestral... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Concerto
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Special offer. Elgar: Violin Concerto
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Little and Davis steer a near-perfect path between the English stoicism and continental passion that lies at the heart of this glorious score. Positioned naturally against the orchestra, Little... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Elgar: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Accuracy matters, and violinist Renaud Capuçon has it in abundance..He is, though, much more than a technical sharp-shooter...Taken whole, this generous, richly enjoyable disc is an easy recommendation... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice
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Record Review, 6th March 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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Little's stellar playing [is] brimming with gorgeous and glitz-free tone, plus a lovely range of light and shade...Little's spacious and serene way with The Lark Ascending is both beautiful,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Elgar & Adès: Violin Concertos
RecommendedChristian Tetzlaff (violin), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
Arresting and tautly persuasive, Christian Tetzlaff challenges orthodoxy in this impressive account of Elgar's great B minor Violin Concerto.... Tetzlaff's riveting account [of the Adès] should... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Special offer. Elgar: Violin Concerto & Serenade for Strings
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
James Ehnes has a lovely ripe vibrato and an expressive openness that touches the heart from his first entry. It's when it comes to the balancing of confessional intimacy with symphonic purposefulness... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Elgar: Violin Concerto
RecommendedThomas Zehetmair (violin), Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
Zehetmair...is able to marry impassioned purpose with appreciation of Elgar's complexity...Mark Elder's direction is stunning...there's a warm glow about the Hallé sound that adds an extra strand... —
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. 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. —
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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: Violin Concerto & Introduction and Allegro
RecommendedNigel Kennedy (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Kennedy's first recording of the Elgar Concerto is aflame with a young man's passionate inspiration, though never lacking subtler nuance, while Handley simply breathed Elgar like no-one else. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Concerto
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Special offer. Elgar From the Archives, Vol. 2
André Navarra (cello), Munich Philharmonic, Tibor Varga (violin), Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Rieger, Jan Koetsier
