Originally posted by Nimrod
View Post
Five Essential Elgar Recordings - your five?
Collapse
X
-
Originally posted by Nimrod View Post1. Symphony no. 1 - Halle Orchestra, Barbirolli, Kings Lynn Live broadcast
2. Enigma Variations - Halle Orchestra, Barbirolli, 1956 Pye recording in the FTH
3. The Music Makers - BBCSO, Davis
4. Sospiri - NPO, Barbirolli. A beautiful work conducted and played beautifully.
The Dream of Gerontius - Halle, Barbirolli
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIn my list I had to fight the temptation to have 5 Barbirolli recordings. He really was the best in Elgar.
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostMe too - toss of a coin between his King's Lynn and Boult's live Elgar 1 and between his 1956 Enigma and that of Boult- though I could not leave out the Menuhin/Elgar VC .
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by cloughie View PostOK Smart A... Yes he did some great stuff with GCB and PJBE - a good brass arranger - I'm sure BBM will agree!
Hi Cloughie! Yes! Actually, I saw Grimethorpe yesterday afternoon! Very good they were too. Howarth’s arrangements are second to none, plus I’ve been conducted by him too, in Henze’s Ragtimes & Habeneras. Especially his arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Pabmusic View PostWhich Boult Enigma? The last (with the LSO?) That's the one Boult finished with a session to spare, so he chose to use that ffinal session for Brahms 3, thus starting his second Brahms cycle. 1970?
Comment
-
-
I haven't contributed to mine yet!
The Dream of Gerontius,(the Sir Andrew Davis recording on Chandos)
Symphony No.1(Edward Gardner)
Violin Concerto(Kennedy/Rattle)
Severn Suite(Black Dyke Band - Major Peter Parkes, from their CD entitled "Epic Brass")
Enigma Variations (c/w Cockaigne Overture, Introduction & Allegro, Serenade for string orchestra)
BBC SO/Sir Andrew Davis.Last edited by BBMmk2; 18-09-18, 08:32.Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by BBMmk2 View PostHi Cloughie! Yes! Actually, I saw Grimethorpe yesterday afternoon! Very good they were too. Howarth’s arrangements are second to none, plus I’ve been conducted by him too, in Henze’s Ragtimes & Habeneras. Especially his arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures!
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by cloughie View PostWelcome to the JB Fan Club. That Kings Lynn No1 is something special, do you have the recording with the Sea Pictures?
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Pabmusic View PostElgar is often a problem where pronunciation is concerned. For most of his life his name was edWAHRD ELgrrr - pretty well the opposite of what we say now (EDwd ELGAHR). It was WW1 that did for the Germanic pronunciation of Edward (people had lived in the Edwahrdian age).
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by Nimrod View PostHi Cloughie, Thank you for that 'Wecome' note but I'm more of a fan of JB than you could possibly imagine! I have got the Intaglio CD with the Sea Pictures from Kings Lynn; also I was at that utterly memorable concert. Elgar 1 in a relatively small church? It blew your socks off!!
Comment
-
-
Originally posted by cloughie View Post...and I guess intimately close to JB, soloist and orchestra. O to have been there! As for Sospiri, we were limited to 5! I think that I frst heard Sospiri and Elegy on JB’s HMV LP ASD2292 back in the mid 60s and loved them from first hearing, likewise Froissart from the same LP.
Comment
-
Comment