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Sir Edward Elgar

post #1 of 5
11/21/09 at 9:05am
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Can anyone recommend specific recordings? I really enjoy his work.
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11/21/09 at 8:59pm
Epic 'stache.
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post #3 of 5
11/21/09 at 9:07pm
If you mix Marcel Proust and Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York, that's what you get.
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post #4 of 5
11/22/09 at 6:14pm
My love for Elgar does somewhat conflict with my hatred of recordings bores, but I digress.

I'm rather doctrinaire about British recordings being the only ones that capture that singularly British sensibility to Elgar's music. Everything else just sounds like the equivalent of Dane Cook doing Hamlet to my ears.

For the Enigma Variations, I'm fond of Boult conducting the LSO. Recorded not long before his retirement and death in the early '80s, it has the wisdom, good taste and contentment one only achieves at the end of a life lived well. Perhaps as a consequence of being good friends with Elgar, he also knows that the dynamics of the piece are terribly intricate (unlike some conductors, who shall remain nameless, Bernstein) and the whole piece hinges on a measured rise and fall throughout.

I can't remember any other specific recordings off the top of my head.

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Epic 'stache.

I've got a biography somewhere with a whole chapter dedicated to that moustache.
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11/22/09 at 9:00pm
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My love for Elgar does somewhat conflict with my hatred of recordings bores, but I digress. I'm rather doctrinaire about British recordings being the only ones that capture that singularly British sensibility to Elgar's music. Everything else just sounds like the equivalent of Dane Cook doing Hamlet to my ears. For the Enigma Variations, I'm fond of Boult conducting the LSO. Recorded not long before his retirement and death in the early '80s, it has the wisdom, good taste and contentment one only achieves at the end of a life lived well. Perhaps as a consequence of being good friends with Elgar, he also knows that the dynamics of the piece are terribly intricate (unlike some conductors, who shall remain nameless, Bernstein) and the whole piece hinges on a measured rise and fall throughout. I can't remember any other specific recordings off the top of my head.
Thanks for the help. It appears there are a few Boult/LSO recordings of the Enigma Variations, I am tempted to get the one with the Marches because I enjoy those quite a bit for their military-esque fervour.
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