Elgar elaborated by Payne - Symphony No.3, Pomp & Circumstance March No.6 | Signum SIGCD118

Elgar elaborated by Payne - Symphony No.3, Pomp & Circumstance March No.6

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGCD118

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 31st March 2008

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Copyright was fast running out and the manuscripts would be free for all and sundry to tinker with come January 2005. Thus, Elgar's heirs took the laudable and sensible decision of commissioning Anthony Payne to complete an 'elaboration' of the third Symphony in 1995.

A great success at the première at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in 1998, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis' baton, the work has gone on to immense international acclaim and is gradually assuming a well-deserved place in the symphonic repertoire of orchestras the world over.

William Reed, a long time companion of the composer, and the much-esteemed leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, worked on the sketches for Pomp & Circumstance March No.6 on numerous occasions with Elgar accompanying Reed's violin. It was to Reed that the terminally ill Elgar uttered the famous words, "Don't let them tinker with it, Billy - burn it!" Billy Reed didn't consign the sketches to the bonfire, but it wasn't until 2006 that Anthony Payne completed March No.6 in fine style. This is only the second recording.

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