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Sir Edward Elgar: The Crown of India
RecommendedClare Shearer (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Finley (baritone), Barbara Marten (narrator), Deborah McAndrew (narrator) & Joanne Mitchell (narrator)
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus & BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis
The music… is from start to finish authentic middling Elgar, highly enjoyable and well worth revival. Gerald Finley shines as St George in 'The Rule of England', however embarrassing the words.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th November 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Masterly with Elgarian rubato, he [George Hurst] refreshingly chooses speeds faster than have become the norm, closer to those of Elgar himself. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd October 2012
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Special offer. In London Town
British Organ Music on the Dobson Organ of Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue
Benjamin Sheen (organ)
Sheen takes the title of his recording from Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture, the centrepiece of his programme and a work played here (in an arrangement by the organist’s father) with musicianly flair.... —
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10 Famous Cathedral Organs
David Hill, Stephen Cleobury, Francis Jackson, Simon Preston, Roy Massey, Noel Rawsthorne
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Elgar: Complete Organ Music
Donald Hunt (Worcester Cathedral Organ), OBE (organ of Worcester Cathedral), Hugh Davies (organ of Carlisle Cathedral), Simon Lindley (organ of Leeds Parish Church)
Hunt gives a very fine performance [of the First Sonata] indeed and the recording is dynamic, forward and exciting...[The Vesper Voluntaries] are much slighter pieces but display considerable... —
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Edward Elgar: Essential Works
English Brass Consort (brassband), Kevin Bowyer (organ), Simon Morris (cello), Leo Debono (piano), Paul Tortelier (cello), Bernhard Guller (piano), Salvatore Accardo (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields,...
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