Elgar - Cello Concerto, Enigma Variations
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96039
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 15th October 2021
Contents
Works
Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85Enigma Variations, op.36
Pomp and Circumstance March no.1 in D major, op.39 no.1
Artists
Giovanni Sollima (cello)Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
Conductor
Filippo ArliaWorks
Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85Enigma Variations, op.36
Pomp and Circumstance March no.1 in D major, op.39 no.1
Artists
Giovanni Sollima (cello)Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
Conductor
Filippo ArliaAbout
The Sicilian-born cellist Giovanni Sollima has made well-received albums for Brilliant Classics of music by Offenbach (94475) and by his father Eliodoro Sollima (96287). His latest recording, made at the Teatro Politeama in the one-time ‘lace capital’ of Europe, Catanzaro, illuminates one of the core works of the cello literature with an affecting sense of line and sensitivity to the melancholy introversion which colours every bar of the Concerto composed by Elgar in the wake of the First World War.
Twenty years earlier, Elgar’s reputation was secured with audiences across Europe and America through the whirlwind success of his “Enigma” Variations. The stoic beauty of ‘Nimrod’, the gentle wit of ‘Dorabella’ and the nervous excitement and pride of the autobiographical finale spoke directly to listeners who would never know the composer or his ‘friends pictured within’. The agitated, impassioned voice of Elgar in the Variations belonged to its end-of-Empire time and place, orchestrated with a mastery which would soon draw the admiration of Richard Strauss and many more musicians on the other side of the English Channel.
Even that quintessential expression of Englishness, the first of five marches which Elgar collected under the Shakesperean banner of “Pomp and Circumstance” and later repurposed to set ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ for the finale of his Coronation Ode, won the composer standing ovations when he conducted it in concerts across mainland Europe. Under the affectionate baton of their music director Filippo Arlia, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria interpret Elgar’s music with a sensitivity and extroversion worthy of the composer.
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