Edward Elgar: Elgar conducts Elgar on CD
Elgar conducts Elgar
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Expected availability end of September 2025
Symphonie Nr. 1; Falstaff op. 68
- Artists:
- London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Elgar
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1930/32
- Item number:
- 5307194
- UPC/EAN:
- 0747313325627
- Release date:
- 9.2.2009
Before its sensational première in 1908, Hans Richter, the work's dedicatee and first conductor, acclaimed Elgar's Symphony No. 1 as 'the greatest symphony of modern times'. Although Falstaff is often treated merely comically, Elgar's virtuosic tone poem presents him and Prince Hal with a psychological insight truly worthy of Shakespeare. On these historic and thrillingly realized recordings, made between 1930 and 1932, there really is no match for the composer's insight and instinctive way with his own works, especially when conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, of which he had been principal conductor from 1911 to 1913.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 : I. Andante nobilmente e semplice - Allegro
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2 Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 : II. Allegro molto
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3 Symphony No. 1 In A Flat Major, Op. 55 : Iii. Adagio
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4 Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 : IV. Lento - Allegro
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5 Falstaff and Prince Henry
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6 Falstaff, Op. 68: Eastcheap - Gadshill - The Boar's Head, revelry and sleep
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7 Falstaff, Op. 68: Dream Interlude
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8 Falstaff's march - The return through Gloucestershire - The new king - The hurried ride to London
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9 Falstaff, Op. 68: Interlude: Gloucestershire, Shallow's orchard
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10 Falstaff, Op. 68: King Henry V's progress - The repudiation of Falstaff, and his death
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