Label: Exton
Format: CD
Barcode: 4526977050306
Catalog number: EXCL 30
Releasedate: 03-09-10
Format: CD
Barcode: 4526977050306
Releasedate: 03-09-10
Elgar's famous marches and the renowned and beautiful Serenade. This recording has some of the most well-known pieces by composer Edward Elgar on it, in an interpretation by Sydney Symphony and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. A concert full of strenght and very energetic indeed, the musicians made the Elgar Festival of 2008 in Sydney to a great succes!
- Volume four 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
- Elgar advised his orchestra in 1931 to play these well-known tunes of the Marches as if they never heard it before: Ashkenazy took over this hint in his own performance with Sydney Symphony. it all sounds very fresh and alive
- Super Audio CD
- Live & session recordings
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1Marches Pomp and Circumstance Op. 39No. 1 in D major
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2Marches Pomp and Circumstance Op. 39No. 2 in a minor
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3Marches Pomp and Circumstance Op. 39No. 3 in c minor
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4Marches Pomp and Circumstance Op. 39No. 4 in G major
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5Marches Pomp and Circumstance Op. 39No. 5 in C major
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6Marches Pomp and Circumstance Op. 39No. 6 in g minor (completed by A. Payne)
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7Serenade for Strings in E minor Op. 20Allegro piacevole
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8Serenade for Strings in E minor Op. 20Larghetto
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9Serenade for Strings in E minor Op. 20Allegretto