Elgar: Symphony No. 2 / Chanson de Matin, Op. 15 No. 2 / etc
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Symphony No. 2 / Chanson de Matin, Op. 15 No. 2 / etc
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
[ ONYX / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 10 May 2017
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"What's the matter with them Billy? They sit there like a lot of stuffed pigs!" Elgar commented to his friend W.H Reid, the leader of the Queen's Hall Orchestra after the chilly reception given to the 2nd Symphony at its premiere in 1911. More emotionally complex and ambiguous than the first symphony, the 2nd seems to hint at the apocalyptic events that would be unleashed just three years on. "Be like a woman dropping a flower on a man's grave" wrote the composer of the 'Spirit of Delight' theme in the coda of the second movement.
This eagerly awaited Elgar 2 from Petrenko and the RLPO will further delight those fans who bought their recording of the 1st Symphony, released on Onyx to critical acclaim last year.
"Petrenko's tempos in the long opening movement are admirably flexible, but it's in the last two that interpretation and playing seem to me finest; the finale achieves a noble grandeur and melancholy." Sunday Times, 19th February 2017
"Petrenko displayed a perceptive understanding for Elgar in his disc with the RLPO of Symphony No 1. Here again, flexibility of tempi, contrasts between lyricism and angst, are brought out with expansive yet controlled playing: the horns and, in the melancholy Larghetto, the woodwind especially. Strings are firm and refined throughout." The Guardian, 12th March 2017 ****
Tracks:
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63
Chanson de Matin, Op. 15 No. 2
Mina
Carissima
