Elgar conducts Elgar
The complete recordings 1914 -1925 in new digital transfers from Elgar’s own record library
Charles Mott (baritone), Henry Ainley (speaker), Agnes Nicholls (soprano), Marie Hall (violin), Beatrice Harrison (cello), Leila Megane (contralto)
The Symphony Orchestra & Royal Albert Hall Orchestra
Superb repackaging of Elgar's earliest recordings, before he re-made many works electrically. Sound is limited, but the music-making wonderfully evokes a vanished era. — More…
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Elgar: Carissima
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 21 January 1914
Elgar: The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 24 February 1920
The Sanguine Fan, Op. 81: Moderato, Maestoso
Elgar: Fringes of the Fleet
- Charles Mott (baritone), Frederick Henry (baritone), Frederick Stewart (baritone), Harry Barratt (baritone)
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 4 July 1917
No. 1. The Lowestoft Boat
No. 2. Fate's Discourtesy
No. 3. Submarines
No. 4. The Sweepers
Elgar: The Fringes of the Fleet: No. 5. Inside the Bar (version for unaccompanied 4 baritones)
- Charles Mott (baritone), Frederick Henry (baritone), Frederick Stewart (baritone), Harry Barratt (baritone)
- Recorded: 27 July 1917
Elgar: Carillon, Op. 75
- Henry Ainley (narrator)
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 29 January 1915
Elgar: Polonia
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 22 May 1919
Elgar: Starlight Express, Op. 78
- Charles Mott (baritone), Agnes Nicholls (soprano)
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 18 February 1916
Act I: To the Children: O children, open your arms to me
Act II: Come Little Winds: Wake up you little night winds
Act II: The Pine Forest: The Sun has Gone, "Curfew Song"
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 'In London Town'
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 28 February 1917
Cockaigne, Op. 40, "In London Town": Overture
Elgar: In the South (Alassio), Op. 50
- Royal Albert Hall Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 30 December 1921 / 26 October 1923
Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
- Marie Pauline Hall (violin)
- Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Edward Elgar
- Recorded: 16 December 1916
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Cadenza (accompagnata: Lento)
III. Allegro molto