Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & In the South
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis
In his finest achievement on record, Andrew Davis penetrates to the dark inner core of this great symphony. In the opening Allegro vivace enobilmente, for example, how well he and his acutely...
Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & In the South
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis
Purchase product
We pay more royalties to artists and composers than any other streaming service with our innovative Fair Play pay-per-second model
We pay artists and composers fairly with our pay-per-second model
In his finest achievement on record, Andrew Davis penetrates to the dark inner core of this great symphony. In the opening Allegro vivace enobilmente, for example, how well he and his acutely...
About
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
2010
In his finest achievement on record, Andrew Davis penetrates to the dark inner core of this great symphony. In the opening Allegro vivace enobilmente, for example, how well he and his acutely responsive players gauge the varying moods of Elgar's glorious inspiration: be it in the exhilarating surge of that leaping introductory paragraph or the spectral, twilight world at the heart of this wonderful movement, no one is found wanting.
Davis's unerring structural sense never once deserts him, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays its heart out. Above all, it's in the many more reflective moments that Davis proves himself an outstandingly perceptive Elgarian, uncovering a vein of intimate anguish that touches to the very marrow; in this respect, his account of the slow movement is quite heart-rendingly poignant – undoubtedly the finest since Boult's incomparable 1944 performance with this very same orchestra – while the radiant sunset of the symphony's coda glows with luminous beauty.
Prefaced by an equally idiomatic, stirring In theSouth, this is an Elgar Second to set beside the very greatest. In every way a treasurable release.
