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Elgar - The Kingdom, Op. 51
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Elgar: The Kingdom
Francesca Chiejina (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus, David Temple
Previous releases of The Kingdom by Boult, Slatkin, Hickox and Elder all have their attractions, but Temple yields to none of them in his consistently cogent and energised interpretation. His... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51
RecommendedClaire Rutter (The Blessed Virgin Mary), Susan Bickley (Mary Magdalene), John Hudson (St. John), Iain Paterson (St. Peter)
Hallé & Hallé Choir, Sir Mark Elder
There are...moments of inwardness and spirituality where the gleam of the cor anglais and Elgar's ever-emotional divided-string writing make their mark —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Choral
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Coming soon. Elgar From the Archives, Vol. 3
Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts, William Herbert, Gordon Clinton, Croydon Philharmonic Society, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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Special offer. Elgar: The Kingdom
Roderick Elms (organ), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Arthur Davies (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Richard Hickox
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Special offer. Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51
Arthur Davies (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Roderick Elms (organ)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
From the very first moments of the orchestral prologue it's clear that Richard Hickox's recording of this "sequel" to The Apostles is going to be appropriately magisterial, and the singing is... —
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Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51, etc.
Dame Margaret Price, Yvonne Minton, Alexander Young, John Shirley-Quirk, Dame Felicity Lott
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Adrian Boult, Sir Philip Ledger
Boult was a passionate admirer of The Kingdom and, as ever, the unaffected devotion and authority of his advocacy is hard to resist. The two formidable contenders in the work are Leonard Slatkin... —
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