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Elgar: Cockaigne Overture / Elegy for Strings / Cello Concerto / Wand of Youth
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture / Elegy for Strings / Cello Concerto / Wand of Youth (Decca 480 4249)
SKU: 15698
Price:
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Label: Decca Cat. No.: 480 4249 Medium: CD No. Discs: 1
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Bringing together Eduard van Beinum's complete Elgar recordings for Decca, this important historic reissue presents multi-faceted sides of the composer: his sense of national pride in Cockaigne, his fondness of childhood memories in The Wand of Youth, and his profundity in the little Elegy and his masterpiece, the Cello Concerto. The Wand of Youth music actually originated as far back as 1870 when the Elgar children, at their home at Broadheath near Worcester, concocted a family playlet for which the youthful composer provided some music. He kept the music of this enchantingly innocent premise and, 37 years later, at a time when he was feeling his way into the very different world of his first symphony, looked over the sketches and decided to re-score them for full orchestra. The music was such a success when Henry Wood premiered the first suite in London in 1907 that Elgar straightaway produced a second which, conducted by him at the 1908 Three Choirs Festival at Worcester, happily took the music right back to its geographical source nearly 40 years before.

The tiny Elegy for Strings written In Memoriam for an official of the Worshipful Musicians Company who had died. In 1901 Elgar's embrace widened when he dedicated his new overture Cockaigne 'To my many friends the members of British orchestras.' 'Honest, healthy, humorous, and strong but not vulgar' was his own description of his musical portrait of London at the turn of that century, in which the pomp and high spirits of the capital are celebrated in music of a thoroughly patriotic and exuberant style. Although Elgar lived for another fifteen years, the Cello Concerto of 1919 was his last major work: the remaining years produced only occasional pieces such as the Nursery Suite and the fifth Pomp and Circumstance march and some planned projects that were never completed. He called the Concerto 'a man's attitude to life' and its introverted mood stayed with him, particularly after the death of his wife the year after it appeared.

Elgar's music was one of Eduard van Beinum's enthusiasms, and it was fascinating in the post-war period in England to be able to hear a foreign maestro's view of Cockaigne, the Cello Concerto and the suites of the Wand of Youth music, all recorded in London. The brilliant, sure-footed playing in the Elgar pieces heard on this disc testifies to the alert, warm-hearted response he was capable of obtaining as much from the LPO as from his Concertgebouw players. The friendliness towards musicians for which he became renowned and the absolute trust he placed in them endeared him to everybody, ultimately earning both respect and devotion.

All recordings are remastered from the original sources.

"Cockaigne fairly swaggers with exuberance, the LPO responding with tremendous zest and fresh-faced application for its then chief, yet there's tenderness, poetry and humour aplenty when required." - [Cockaigne] Gramophone.

A Decca Eloquence CD.

To be released 28 October 2011.

Artists: Anthony Pini (cello).
Composers: Elgar.
Conductors: Eduard van Beinum.
Orchestras: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tracks: SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)
Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Elegy for strings, Op. 58
The Wand of Youth
Medium: CD
No. of Discs: 1
SKU #: 15698
Label: Decca
Catalog #: 480 4249
Price: AU $8.95   
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