Elgar - Sea Pictures, Symphony No.1
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Label: LPO
Cat No: LPO0046
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 1st June 2010
Contents
Artists
Dame Janet Baker (contralto)London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Vernon HandleyWorks
Sea Pictures, op.37Symphony no.1 in A flat major, op.55
Artists
Dame Janet Baker (contralto)London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Vernon HandleyAbout
The LPO also had a special association with Vernon Handley and this release in a small way acknowledges Handley's contribution to the Orchestra's life. It marks the first re-issue onto a single disc of the acclaimed recording of Dame Janet Baker's Sea Pictures from a concert recorded by Capital Radio in 1984 and a landmark premiere release from the same concert of Elgar's Symphony No.1.
When the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Elgar Society were planning a concert to mark the 50th anniversary of Elgar’s death, Vernon Handley was the natural choice of conductor.
Handley’s feeling for English music was second to none, and his rapport with Elgar’s music in particular is clear in these performances, recorded live at the anniversary concert. Sea Pictures evokes contrasting images of the sea from five poems sung here by Dame Janet Baker, a peerless interpreter of the work.
Elgar’s first Symphony is one of Elgar’s finest works for orchestra – hailed after its premičre as ‘the greatest symphony of modern times’. Here in this recording Handley conducts a wonderfully paced reading of the Symphony and the LPO have performed and recorded this symphony countless times, rarely with more refinement and assurance than heard here for the first time in this live recording.
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