Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
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Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
This mesmerising meditation couldn't be in better hands —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th February 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Elgar: Viola Concerto & Bloch: Suite For Viola and Orchestra
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Ridout’s account of the opening movement is full of richly rhapsodic playing , although the viola suggests more of a wistful musing than the deeper, elegiac contemplation possible on the cello. —
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Limelight Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th January 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Concerto
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New. Elgar & Dvořák: Cello Concertos
Alban Gerhardt (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andrew Manze
Cellophiles who swear by the interpretations of Paul Tortelier will find Gerhardt's pacing less novel than his insistence on freshness and immediacy...his well-nigh flawless solo playing is... —
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Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
This mesmerising meditation couldn't be in better hands. —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th February 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos
RecommendedGautier Capuçon (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
A dream team in the making, I suspect. Capuçon and Pappano may be collaborating here for the first time but it’s a meeting of musical minds and sensibilities for sure. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Concerto
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Special offer. Elgar Remastered
By Lani Spahr
Beatrice Harrison (cello), Princess Victoria H.R.H. (piano), Yehudi Menuhin (violin), New Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Festival Choir, Sir Edward Elgar, Lawrance Collingwood
So many details in the First Symphony stand out as never before. —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Jacqueline du Pré was 20 when she recorded Elgar's Cello Concerto with Barbirolli and the LSO August 1965 – an interpretation universally acclaimed for its profound expressiveness (see above).... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2006, Disc of the Month
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Building A Library, January 2026, Top Choice (Elgar Cello Concerto)
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CD
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Elgar & Carter: Cello Concertos
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Weilerstein avoids nostalgia [in the Elgar] and produces instead an account that is full of passion, grief and nobility of feeling...Her interpretation [of the Carter], at once remarkably expressive... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Recording of the Year & Concerto Award Winner
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Special offer. English Cello Works (Bridge; Elgar; Ireland)
Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano), The Royal Danish Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård
Rich tone and immaculate precision from Brantelid, plus finely judged accompaniment from the orchestra and pianist Bengt Forsberg. —
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Special offer. Elgar From the Archives, Vol. 2
André Navarra (cello), Munich Philharmonic, Tibor Varga (violin), Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Rieger, Jan Koetsier
