Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works

 
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SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, with Kate Royal (soprano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 10 November 2016

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Two much-loved orchestral favourites representing the summit of Elgar's maturity are coupled with three of the lesser-known wartime works, here receiving their first recordings with the original French texts. Kate Royal is the soprano soloist in 'Une voix dans le désert', a hauntingly tender masterpiece which every Elgarian should know.

"Both [In the South and the Enigma Variations] are well known and given impressively emotional and dramatic performances by Brabbins...The entire disc is a collector's item." (Sunday Times)

:"fine, firmly unsentimental, bracingly muscular performances." The Guardian

'Once in a while, a performance comes along that focuses understanding of a familiar work in a new way-or recapture an insight that might have been lost. That's how it was for me with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 'Enigma Variations' … Brabbins' performance as a whole is a reminder of what a masterpiece of construction 'Enigma' truly is: not just a beautifully assembled gallery of portraits, but a sequence building with grand inevitability to the finale' (BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month December 2016)

Tracks:

In the South 'Alassio' Op 50
Variations for orchestra 'Enigma' Op 36
Carillon Op 75 with Florence Daguerre de Hureaux (narrator)
Une voix dans le désert Op 77 with Florence Daguerre de Hureaux (narrator), Kate Royal (soprano)
Le drapeau belge Op 79 with Florence Daguerre de Hureaux (narrator)
Pleading Op 48 with Yann Ghiro (clarinet)

View the trailer (via YouTube)