Enigma Variations / Pomp & Circumstance Marches / Imperial March (with works by Holst, Bax & Walton) [recorded 1953]

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Enigma Variations / Pomp & Circumstance Marches / Imperial March (with works by Holst, Bax & Walton) [recorded 1953]
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Malcolm Sargent

[ Brilliant Classics Retrospective / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 October 2010

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Throughout his life, Sir Malcolm Sargent was a passionate advocate of contemporary English music and he conducted a whole range of important first performances, including At the Boar's Head (1925) by Gustav Holst, Hugh the Drover (1924) Sir John in Love (1929) Riders to the Sea (1937) and Symphony No. 9 (1958) by Ralph Vaughan Williams, further Belshazzar's Feast (1931) and Troilus and Cressida (1954) by Sir William Walton. Here are classics recordings he conducted of Elgar's Enigma Variations and Holst's 'The Planets'. These Decca recordings have never appeared on CD before.

Tracks:

Elgar:
"Enigma" Variations
Pomp & Circumstamce March No 4
Pomp & Circumstamce March No 1

Holst:
The Planets

Elgar:
Imperial March Op 32

Arnold Bax:
Coronation March

William Walton:
Ode and Sceptre March