The complete acoustic recordings as conducted by Elgar

The complete electrical recordings as conducted by Elgar, 1926-1934
9 CD SET
Released April 2011 - These sets are now in stock

The vernal charm of these reworked sketches from his youth (including The Wagon Passes, Anthony Payne’s inspired choice for the ending of the unfinished third symphony) makes two hearings nothing

'The LSO plays out of its skin for the composer; Falstaff is brilliantly characterised, the Symphony has serious intensity.'

Includes the cello concerto with Beatrice Harrison

'The daringly fast tempos, the transparency of texture, flexibility of phrasing and sheer spring in the attack that he calls out of players he knew well, are the absolute benchmarks for how this

Includes Elgar's own performance of the Fringes of the Fleet with Charles Mott, Frederick Henry, Frederick Stewart and Harry Barratt

Elgar conducting Falstaff, Cello Concerto with Beatrice Harrison and the Nursery Suite.

From 1916, the first ever recording of this most romantic of Concertos.

Elgar's conducting for Menuhin in the Violin Concerto's opening orchestral tutti is magnificent...the success of the recording may be judged from the fact that there have been few periods in the