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Elgar: Wand Of Youth/Nursery
Search: Lullaby
by: Elgar, London Symphony Orchestra
Release Date July 13, 2005
Years ago I began buying titles in EMI's British Composers Series in order to get classic performances by the great British conductors Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli. Of course in discovering JB & AB's delightful accounts of the Elgar Symphonies and other symphonic works in this series, I also learned that Elgar's own recordings of the First and Second Symphonies, and the Cello Concerto and Overtures were also represented in a subset of the BC Series called "The Elgar Edition." Though they are electric mono recordings from the late 1920s and early 1930s, the remastered sound is surprisingly clear and enjoyable. More recently I realized (via the Berkshire Record Outlet) that a fourth and fifth disc of Elgar's own performances ... Read More:
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