Originally posted by Alison
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Five Essential Elgar Recordings - your five?
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostDepressingly the Barbirolli EMI symphonies now seem to be download only whilst the Handley CFP accounts are nla.
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostWhilst I agree it is an indisputable masterpiece - it is far from alone in his output
My five indispensable recordings of it would be
Menuhin/LSO/Elgar
Menuhin/LPO/Boult
Kennedy/Handley
Ida Haendel/ CBSO/Rattle live
Campoli/Boult
Though I should not like to be without the Bean, Heifetz,Zukerman, Perlman and Sammons recordings.
There's a wonderful recording of Igor Oistrakh playing it which, whilst hardly idiomatic, is an unbelievable piece of fiddle playing! I believe his father, the great David Oistrakh, played it although I've never been able to trace a recording. I live in hope there's one in a radio archive somewhere.
I have a recording of Gidon Kremer playing it at a competition which I really should look out.
Just looked out! Recorded 25th May 1967 at the Brussels Centre For Fine Arts with the National Symphony Orchestra of Belgium under René Defossez. This was the occasion when Kremer won 3rd prize in the Ysaye & Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostUsed copies of the Handley (earlier incarnations) are available dirt cheap:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elgar-Symph...=elgar+handley
IIRC, aren't tube trains to be heard in the quiet bits?!
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostIIRC, aren't tube trains to be heard in the quiet bits?!Last edited by Pabmusic; 11-09-18, 00:41.
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Originally posted by Alison View PostI must seek out Norman del Mar too.
About the same time the Heifetz recording convinced me about the violin concerto. He played what was written without the sentimentality that had ruined it for me in earlier performances that I had heard and I've since heard two spectacularly memorable live performances: Nigel Kennedy and Martin Milner.
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Originally posted by mikealdren View PostAs a teenager, I didn't really like English music generally and Britten and Elgar didn't strike a chord. That all changed when I played Elgar 1 and, later the cello concerto, with Norman.
About the same time the Heifetz recording convinced me about the violin concerto. He played what was written without the sentimentality that had ruined it for me in earlier performances that I had heard and I've since heard two spectacularly memorable live performances: Nigel Kennedy and Martin Milner.
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