BaL 01.06.2024 - Elgar: Symphony 1

[Pulcinella]

I had the same problem with Bruckner and quit - which gave me much more free time than I would have gained had I fallen out of love with Elgar's wonderful symphonies.

Snap!
And we won't hold it against you, Richard.
We're a pretty tolerant bunch on the whole.

I'm wondering if I dare post on the Stravaganza page that Podger's playing is not for me.

[smittims]

Oh, please do! In my view Rachel Podger is like so many people in the media today (David Hockney, Helen Mirren): accomplished, successful, good at what they do, but absurdly overpraised.

[LMcD]

Ought to win ! It’s a stupendous performance . Barbirolli ‘s live King’s Lynn performance very shortly before his death is also exceptional . I would not be without Boult and Barbirolli in the studio , the composer’s recording , Elder’s first recording , Solti , Barenboim or Menuhin.

Will this be the first time a recording originally issued with BBC MM qualifies for consideration on BaL?
Perhaps the winner will be a Staatskapelle, thus giving the Germans an 'Elgar double' .

[oliver sudden]

For me the second movement of Elgar 2 is a bit like Bruckner but with music.

(I do actually like the odd bit of Bruckner and am deliberately overstating this point but perhaps someone will get what I mean.)

[Sir Velo]

Snap!
And we won't hold it against you, Richard.


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Indeed not. Just great sympathy.

[LMcD]

Indeed not. Just great sympathy.

[Pulcinella]

Will this be the first time a recording originally issued with BBC MM qualifies for consideration on BaL?
Perhaps the Dresden Staatskapelle will 'do the double', as I believe their recording of the 2nd Symphony is the current BaL recommendation.

Probably.
Their Tippett 2 and 4 conducted by the composer was subsequently released on NMC, but neither work has been a BaL subject, has it?

[LMcD]

For me the second movement of Elgar 2 is a bit like Bruckner but with music.

(I do actually like the odd bit of Bruckner and am deliberately overstating this point but perhaps someone will get what I mean.)

'BBC Radio 3 - The Home Of Odd Bits'.

[oliver sudden]

Will this be the first time a recording originally issued with BBC MM qualifies for consideration on BaL?
Perhaps the Dresden Staatskapelle will 'do the double', as I believe their recording of the 2nd Symphony is the current BaL recommendation.

There’s a Dresden Staatskapelle Elgar 2?

[EnemyoftheStoat]

There’s a Dresden Staatskapelle Elgar 2?

No stranger than the idea of a Berlin Staatskapelle Elgar 2, I'd say.

[Roger Webb]

Will this be the first time a recording originally issued with BBC MM qualifies for consideration on BaL?
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I'm pretty sure the BBC MM version of Belshazzar's Feast was praised highly, if not their top recommendation - Pulcinella will put me right if not.

[Barbirollians]

Will this be the first time a recording originally issued with BBC MM qualifies for consideration on BaL?
Perhaps the Dresden Staatskapelle will 'do the double', as I believe their recording of the 2nd Symphony is the current BaL recommendation.

That was a terrible Richard Morrison BAL . By the way the Boult live Elgar 1 was first released on a Pickwick 2 disc set concentrating on the Last Night of the Proms before it then became a BBCMM CD . I recall EG being blown away by the performance in Gramophone and bought the set.

[Barbirollians]

It looks like the BBC MM Boult Proms performance is also available commercially on this release:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...s-brahms-elgar

Richard try this one - if you don't like Elgar 1 after this then by all means give up !

[LMcD]

There’s a Dresden Staatskapelle Elgar 2?

#18 corrected!
I've just listened to Jeremy Summerly's summing up for Belshazzar's Feast and I don't think the BBC MM recording is mentioned.
When the work under review was Mozart's K361, a number of Forumites expressed their admiration for the BBC MM recording, some adding that they were content with that one alone, but I don't think it was taken into consideration.

[oliver sudden]

#18 corrected!

Ach so. Schade!

Speaking of Germans, there was a live BRSO/C Davis Elgar 2 in circulation, it has popped up on YouTube from time to time. Would love to see a proper issue of that.