Elgar - Carissima
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Orchestral
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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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[Petrenko’s love for Elgar] can be felt throughout this performance too: in the sumptuous but textured orchestral sound (beautifully recorded), in the attentive phrasing and in the power of... —
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Record Review, 8th April 2017, Recording of the Week
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Elgar: The Longed-for Light
RecommendedElgar's Music in Wartime
Simon Callow (speaker), Simon Callow (speaker) & Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson
Here's a supremely enjoyable Elgar survey centred around a clutch of works composed during the Great War...Throughout, the BBC Concerto Orchestra respond with bright-eyed conviction and commendable... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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…the principal focus of this disc is the composer's solo piano arrangement of the Enigma Variations, and unlikely as it might seem the music sound surprisingly effective in this form. …Wass... —
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These fine pieces are expertly done by Peter Pettinger… full marks to Chandos. —
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The Elgar Edition: The Complete Electrical Recordings
RecommendedSteuart Wilson (Gerontius), Margaret Balfour (Angel), Herbert Heyner (The Priest/The Angel of the Agony), Tudor Davies (Gerontius), Horace Stevens (The Angel of the Agony), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Margaret Balfour (contralto), Beatrice Harrison (cello), Sir Edward Elgar (piano)
London Symphony...
This 9-disc set gathers all of the recordings of Elgar himself conducting (mainly with the LSO), including the Violin Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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…James Judd… gives Elgar's early overture an enhanced sense of seriousness and nobility that gives an individual slant to what is undoubtedly a highly competitive performance. The ensuing programme... —
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All in all, with its full-bodied playing and open emotions, this is an album that should redefine what it means to be ‘very British’. —
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