Elgar - Violin Concerto, Polonia, Crown of India Interlude | Chandos CHSA5083

Elgar - Violin Concerto, Polonia, Crown of India Interlude

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHSA5083

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st November 2010

Contents

Artists

Tasmin Little (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Andrew Davis

Works

Elgar, Edward

Polonia, op.76
The Crown of India: Interlude, op.66
Violin Concerto in B minor, op.61

Artists

Tasmin Little (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Andrew Davis

About

The long-awaited and much anticipated recording by Tasmin Little of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, released 100 years after the work’s first performance. In concert, Tasmin Little is closely associated with this concerto, having celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edward Elgar with performances of it on a major tour to Southeast Asia and Australia in 2007; she has also performed the concerto extensively in London: at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, and with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall.

What makes this recording especially interesting is that she has included the cadenza used in the work’s first recording, made in 1916 with Marie Hall. For that occasion, Elgar, amongst other things, added harps to counter the sonic limitations of the acoustic recording process. For those used to hearing the standard version, also included, the result makes for fascinating listening, and the recording will prove a valuable addition to the Elgar discography. The 1916 version of the cadenza has been tracked separately.

Tasmin Little: ‘I have waited a long time to record the Elgar Concerto, a work that I have been playing for twenty years and one which is so close to my heart. In the inspirational Andrew Davis and the RSNO’s commitment, I found exactly the right partnership for this monumental work.’

The Violin Concerto is complemented by another piece for violin and orchestra, the charming Interlude from The Crown of India, as well as the rarely recorded but imposing Polonia, an inventive and colourful work incorporating much Polish melodic material. This was commissioned by the Polish conductor Emil Młynarski in 1915 and dedicated to Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the pianist-composer and, later, Prime Minister of Poland.
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