Elgar from America Vol.1: Enigma Variations, Cello Concerto, Falstaff
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Label: Somm
Cat No: ARIADNE5005
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd May 2019
Contents
Works
Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85Enigma Variations, op.36
Falstaff: Symphonic Study in C minor, op.68
Artists
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)NBC Symphony Orchestra
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Arturo ToscaniniJohn Barbirolli
Artur Rodzinski
Works
Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85Enigma Variations, op.36
Falstaff: Symphonic Study in C minor, op.68
Artists
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)NBC Symphony Orchestra
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Arturo ToscaniniJohn Barbirolli
Artur Rodzinski
About
Elgar visited America annually from 1905-07 and again in 1911 where his music found articulate champions and a place in the country’s affections, the trio of his Pomp and Circumstance March in D an essential, long-established part of ceremonies accompanying America’s graduation tradition.
The featured recordings date from the 1940s and have been restored and remastered by the multi-award-winning audio restoration engineer Lani Spahr, who also provides informative booklet notes.
The Enigma Variations were, by far, America’s favourite Elgar work in the first decade of the last century. The “fleet, error-free performance” by the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini in New York’s Radio City Studio on 5 November 1949 appears here on CD for the first time.
New in any form is Artur Rodziński’s never-before released 10 October 1943 Carnegie Hall account of Falstaff: Symphonic Study in C minor with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra.
Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky joined the NYPSO under John Barbirolli for a 10 November 1940 Carnegie Hall performance of the Cello Concerto. Piatigorsky never recorded the work commercially and this is the only known existing recording of him playing the piece.
Lani Spahr’s previous restorations of historic Elgar recordings for SOMM Recordings include Elgar Rediscovered (SOMMCD0167) and the four-disc set Elgar Remastered (SOMMCD2614) which featured recordings from the composer’s own collection and was hailed by Audiophilia as “a fascinating achievement which will have you wishing for more”.
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