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Elgar - Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
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Special offer. Elgar: Violin Concerto & Serenade for Strings
RecommendedJames Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
James Ehnes has a lovely ripe vibrato and an expressive openness that touches the heart from his first entry. It's when it comes to the balancing of confessional intimacy with symphonic purposefulness... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th September 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Concerto
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Special offer. Elgar: Orchestral Works
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Allegri String Quartet (string quartet), Kim Borg (bass), Richard Lewis (tenor), Peter Dawson (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia of London, Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers,...
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These are four of the best Elgar performances on disc available. First, the recording is superb, with near-perfect balance and a really natural sound. Second, the playing of the BBC Symphony... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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English String Music
RecommendedSinfonia of London & New Philharmonia Orchestra, with the Allegri String Quartet, Sir John Barbirolli
This is almost certainly the very finest recording of English string music...Moreover it might also be considered one of Barbirolli's very finest records —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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And the Bridge is Love
RecommendedEnglish Music for Strings
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra
as a conductor, he evidently has the ability to make a difference to collective performance-level (the English Chamber Orchestra plays characteristically and vividly at every point) while not... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Elgar: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, In the South & other orchestral works
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Orchestral
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From the wonderful lyrical springboard opening right through to the final slow fade there’s a singing line that rises, falls and snakes its way through everything…The Serenade for Strings here... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Sir John Barbirolli conducts English String Music
Sinfonia of London & New Philharmonia Orchestra, with the Allegri String Quartet
Sir John Barbirolli
This is almost certainly the very finest recording of English string music...Moreover it might also be considered one of Barbirolli's very finest records —
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Some may miss the high-adrenalin count and espressivo clout of, say, Herbert von Karajan’s early 1980s digital Berlin remake [of the Tchaikovsky], yet Hope is more successful at capturing the... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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