Elgar's Second - BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena: Afternoon on 3 30/06/17

**seabright** · 20-09-17, 20:08

Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post

IIRC, there have been no "modern" recordings of the Elgar Symphonies with the BBCMusMags - only (very good) Boult and Sargent archive versions? A more recent performance would be overdue - I would welcome this Mena, but would actually prefer the RLPO / (Vasily) Petrenko from the 2014 Proms; the finest live performance of the work I've heard, it used to be available on YouTube ...

The V. Petrenko / RLPO Elgar 2 has reappeared on the Tube so ought to be heard, or heard again, by devoted Elgarians ...

Vasily Petrenko conducts Elgar Symphony No. 2 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Proms 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cUFZ2T0X0

This splendid performance, under the baton of the immensely talented Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko, was given by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchest...

**ferneyhoughgeliebte** · 20-09-17, 21:00

Originally posted by seabright View Post

The V. Petrenko / RLPO Elgar 2 has reappeared on the Tube so ought to be heard, or heard again, by devoted Elgarians ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cUFZ2T0X0

**seabright** · 21-09-17, 06:43

Whilst on You Tube, if you haven't yet seen it, there's a fascinating 80-minute TV documentary on Elgar which had only one transmission back in 1984. It includes contributions from Michael Kennedy, Jerrold Northrop Moore, Simon Rattle, Nigel Kennedy, et al, and is well worth watching ...

A Portrait of Elgar - 'Hope and Glory'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ap8FyBZFD0

This fascinating documentary on the great English composer, which features interviews with his biographers Michael Kennedy and Jerrold Northrop Moore, as wel...

Elgar's Second - BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena: Afternoon on 3 30/06/17

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