Label: Exton
Format: SACD
Barcode: 4526977050290
Catalog number: EXCL 29
Releasedate: 03-09-10
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
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1Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Andante
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2Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation I - L'istesso tempo
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3Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation II - Allegro
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4Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation III - Allegretto
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5Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation IV - Allegro di molto
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6Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation V - Moderato
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7Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation VI - Andantino
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8Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation VII - Presto
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9Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation VIII - Allegretto
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10Variations on an Original Theme Enigma Op. 36Variation IX - Adagio
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11Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op. 36Variation X - Intermezzo: Allegretto
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12Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op. 36Variation XI - Allegro di molto
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13Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op. 36Variation XII - Andante
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14Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op. 36Variation XIII - Romanza: Moderato
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15Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' Op. 36Variation XIV - Finale: Allegro
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16Ouverture 'In the South' (Alassio) Op. 50