Elgar: Symphony No. 1
Vernon Handley (conductor), London Philharmonic Orchestra
Elgar: Sea Pictures
1. Sea Slumber-Song
2. In Haven (Capri)
3. Sabbath Morning at Sea
4. Where Corals Lie
5. The Swimmer
Dame Janet Baker (contralto), Vernon Handley (conductor), London Philharmonic Orchestra
LPO 0046

"Elgar fans should rush to buy this live recording" Observer May 2010
"Janet Baker is in glorious voice in Sea Pictures" Sunday Times, May 2010

Elgar: The Pipes of Pan
Elgar: The River
Roderick Williams (baritone), Martin Yates (conductor), BBC Concert Orchestra

Sea Pictures for baritone
1. Sea Slumber-Song
2. In Haven (Capri)
3. Sabbath Morning at Sea
4. Where Corals Lie
5. The Swimmer
Roderick Williams (baritone),... more

The work is presented on 2 CDs. Disc 1 includes the entire masque with narration, whilst Disc 2 contains only the music.

COMPACT DISC ONE
premiere recording
The Crown of India, Op. 66 (1912)
An Imperial Masque in Two Tableaux. Orchestration completed by Anthony Payne Words by Henry Hamilton

Tableau I. The Cities of Ind 45:34
la. Introduction.
1b. Sacred Measure 2:09
2. Dance of Nautch Girls 3:08
2a. India greets her Cities 5:20
3. Song (Agra) 6:55
... more

The Language of Flowers
After (P.B.Marston) Op. 31, No. 1
It isnae me (S.Holmes)
The Pipes of Pan
Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Miles (piano)

Shakespeare’s Kingdom
Rondel, Op 16, No. 3
The Poet’s Life
A War Song (Hayward), Op. 5
Konrad Jarnot (baritone), Reinild Miles (piano)

Two Songs Op. 60
The Torch
The River
Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Miles (piano)

Was it some golden star?
Through the long days
Arabian serenade
Konrad Jarnot... more

Let Beauty Awake is a collection of enlightening papers from the second joint seminar of the Elgar Society and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society held at the British Library.

The 160 page hard back book, edited by Julian Rushton, also includes a CD recording of Stephen Connock’s on-stage interview with Richard Hickox, recorded the day before the latter’s tragic early death.

Contents:
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Vaughan Williams and Others
1. Parry, Elgar, and Vaughan Williams: influences and aspirations
Michael Pope
2. Elgar’s literary choice... more

At last, the successor to David’s recording of Elgar’s Piano Improvisations, issued in 2003. This CD contains the Karg-Elert transcription of
Falstaff, a manuscript lost for... more

Elgar Three Movements for Piano Trio

All three movements were left incomplete by Elgar, and the task of turning them into performable works has been taken on by composer Paul Adrian Rooke.

The three movements were premiered during the Elgar 150 Celebrations in 2007. The March for the Grafton Family is a version of the Empire March of 1924. The history of the 1882 trio... more

2 CD SET

Introduction by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Announcer
National Anthem
Weber: Der Freischutz - Overture
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in Bb, Op.83
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Announcer
Elgar: Symphony No. 1
The Halle and its Conductor - a 15 minute conversation with Sir John Barbirolli, Leinard Behrens and Kenneth Crickmore
introduced by \b{Alec Robertson
The Barbirolli Society SJB 1033-34
2 CD set