Exceptional Elgar. ‘Nimrod’ has the grandeur of a Bruckner slow movement.

Brabbins masterminds an expansive, ideally flexible and notably unflustered reading of Elgar’s In the South, one which quarries this evocative score’s plentiful reserves of noble grandeur, pantheistic wonder and vulnerability…[he] proves a comparably unhurried, affectionate and cannily observant guide through Enigma, the friends pictured within springing to life with unforced naturalness…an enjoyable and stimulating anthology that Elgarians everywhere should try and hear

Splendidly performed and recorded versions of Enigma and In the South, plus some fascinating rarities.

Both [In the South and the Enigma Variations] are well known and given impressively emotional and dramatic performances by Brabbins...The entire disc is a collector’s item.

fine, firmly unsentimental, bracingly muscular performances.

Brabbins’ Enigma is a delight: tempi and tone perfectly judged, a feeling of freshness throughout which is lacking from a number of high-profile recent accounts

Every work is recreated with penetrating musicianship and skilled empowerment from the podium. Every performance is of superlative calibre