BaL 4.01.20 - Elgar: Enigma Variations

[Keraulophone]

It's Solti/CSO for me. Just saying.

I'd keep that to yourself.

[BBMmk2]

I wonder if Sir Andrew Davis will come on tops? I hope he dies this for Chandos one day!

[visualnickmos]

I'd keep that to yourself.

I wouldn't - a fine recording.

[cloughie]

I wonder if Sir Andrew Davis will come on tops? I hope he dies this for Chandos one day!

Bbm - some of your typos are real killers!

[teamsaint]

Note to self. Find an alternative to “ visceral” this year.
And remember,” schizophrenic” is not necessarily an appropriate description of people with a serious side and also a sense of humour.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Del Mar, Menuhin and Rattle respectfully considered so far, so the start of this BAL is encouraging.....

[vinteuil]

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... ahem, Richd: Arnold's father, Matthew, was not the head of Rugby School. That was Thomas, Matthew's father




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[cloughie]

Note to self. Find an alternative to “ visceral” this year.
And remember,” schizophrenic” is not necessarily an appropriate description of people with a serious side and also a sense of humour.

Or a derogatory term for Geminis

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Jabber, jabber...

The worst kind of twofer, both in competition, using far too many words.

Also, some unnecessarily long excerpts.

[pastoralguy]

Got to love Bernstein...

[gurnemanz]

Got to love Bernstein...

.. I do.

[Keraulophone]

I wouldn't - a fine recording.

A fine recording of Solti IMO overdriving the Enigma Variations (described by Andrew Achenbach in Gramophone as 'worryingly slick') with an undeniably virtuoso display from the Chicago SO that contrasts markedly (on the Decca Ovation reissue that I've just reminded myself of) with the marvellously idiomatic playing of the LPO in Solti's 'Cockaigne' Overture recorded a year earlier (1976) in Kingsway Hall. The five P & C Marches are also excellent on this disc.

Solti's RFH performance with the LPO on ICA Classics taken from a BBC2 broadcast is also preferable to his Vienna PO recording from 1996. This very interesting DVD also includes a live Symphony No.2 in a RFH performance that preceded the well known Decca recording.

https://icaclassics.com/releases/sir-georg-solti

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's Solti/CSO for me. Just saying.

I've got that recording, too - very good, like all Solti's Elgar, if not in my list of "absolute favourites". Not surprised at all to hear it might be somebody's top choice,

[Alison]

Thanks Nick. Don’t feel I need to make any new purchases after BaL but I will be extracting Enigma from my Solti Chicago box for the first time.

[Alison]

Cloughmeister punches the air at library winner.