Enigma Variations / In the South

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Label: Exton
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977050290

Catalog number: EXCL 29
Releasedate: 03-09-10

This disc is from Elgar Festival made in 2008. A beautiful performance of Elgar's famous Enigma Variations during this triumphant Elgar Festival in Sydney with conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. The interpretation is a melancholic and refined one. One that keeps the mystery of the Enigma alive.

Volume three of a 5 CD series recorded during the magnificent Elgar Festival 2008 in Sydney
A milestones, performed by diligent interpreters of Elgar music
One of the most revered musicians of our time, with a career spanning over fifty years of music-making both at the keyboard and in front of the orchestra
In January 2009 he took up the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser to the Sydney Symphony
Ashkenazy has profound knowlegde of Elgar and therefor his interpretations come very near the to composer