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Author: Ted Donaldson
Date: 2001-09-07 00:57
When i attended the LSO concert in daytona about a month ago i got a free BBC Magazine and the CD featured Falstaff- symphonic study. It is so cool!!! i have listened to it for ever now. I just wondered if there were any cds of his works i could purchase. Thanks
Ted
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Author: Ted Donaldson
Date: 2001-09-07 11:41
what do you mean by am i serious? yes i attended the concert and the cd was free and yes i liked him.
Confused...
Ted
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Author: David
Date: 2001-09-07 12:24
Dear Ted
Yeah I like him too but I just couldn't believe you hadn't heard any of his works
Log on to Amazon........He is quintessentially British 19th C adventurous in style,
His choral work "Dream of Gerontious" has to be one of my favourites but perhaps the tops is his Sea Pictures......nd then there is Pomp Circumtance Marches......
I am sure you will recognise them when you hear them.
Cheers
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Author: Aaron
Date: 2001-09-07 20:59
There are many CD's of his works. ONe I would highly receommend you obtaning is a copy of Elgar's cello concerto. There are of course many recordings out there, but one that is at hte top of the list is probablly any copy of Jacquline du Pre on the cello. She was amazing(and also was maried to everybody's favorite conductor/pianist Daniel Barenboim). I have a recording on the sony classical label, with Du Pre and conducting, Barenboim with the Philadelphia Orchestra. this is a well played recording, but the sound quality is a little lacking, but it's great none the less.
Aaron
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Author: susannah
Date: 2001-09-07 22:25
Elgar has written some really beautiful works, and yes, I'm sure you will know some of them. Anyway, go to any good CD shop, and there will be a range to choose from.
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-09-07 23:47
The Cello Concerto is wonderful (check out the clarinet solos in the first movement). Also, look for the Enigma Variations and the Violin Concerto (esp. if you like the Brahms violin concerto).
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Author: beejay
Date: 2001-09-08 09:14
There exists a very fine set of arrangements for clarinet and piano called "An Elgar Clarinet Album" -- edited by Sidney Lawton and published in London by Novello.; It includes Salut d'Amour, Chanson de Matin, Chanson de Nuit, Adagio from the cello concerto, and two themes from the Enigma Variations.
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Author: KenAbbott
Date: 2001-09-08 12:39
Highly recommend Enigma Variations. Make sure that you read the liner notes. Each variation represents either a friend or family member or pet. Amazing.
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Author: graham
Date: 2001-09-10 11:53
Flastaff is rarely done (a pity). If you like choral music then buy The Apostles. There are two CD versions. The earlier one and marginally better is conducted by Boult (EMI) and the later one by Hickox (Chandos). There are several dull bits in Part 1, but Part 2 is absolutely stunning. He wrote it two or three years after Gerontius, and I feel it is the best music he wrote. The clarinet writing (amongst the rest) shows what a superb orchestrator he was.
He wrote two symphonies, and a third uncompleted one has been completeed recently by Payne. No. 2 is the best of these, and there are many versions available.
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Author: David dow Sympony NB
Date: 2002-04-26 10:06
Try In The South, it has some really magnificent orchestration, also Cochaine overture.
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