{"product_id":"elgar-symphonies-nos-1-2-cockaigne-sea-pictures-mackerras-sircharles","title":"ELGAR: Symphonies Nos. 1 \u0026 2; Cockaigne; Sea Pictures - Mackerras, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic (2 CDs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/ABOUT_THIS_RECORDING_W._WORLD_2_e41329ea-b9a9-4e85-9c74-e4ca06232094_480x480.png?v=1597936917\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Mackerras’ grand readings of the Elgar symphonies, magnificently recorded, make a welcome return to the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/REVIEWS_CS_WORLD_7169b53a-dbe6-4c81-930b-be7f7575534e_480x480.png?v=1597936904\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘[The First Symphony’s] structure and especially its orchestration, so marvellously luminous and poetic, are clearly foremost in the conductor’s mind, so that this is always a very musical interpretation, lucidly presented and shaped … The main part of the [finale] is splendidly forthright, underlining Elgar’s ‘massive hope for the future’ … a sparkling Cockaigne’ Gramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Here is an Elgar Second of exciting thrust and considerable interpretative flair. Mackerras’s way with the first movement is charismatically propulsive in the Elgar\/Solti manner …Throughout, Andrew Cornall’s superbly well-lit Walthamstow Assembly Hall production serves up a feast for the ears, with wonderfully ripe RPO horns cutting through Elgar’s kaleidoscopic textures to often revelatory effect, and in those great waves of sound that punctuate the finale … I also much enjoyed Della Jones’s vividly projected technically immaculate performance of the Sea Pictures. In the third and fifth songs especially her exemplary diction really brings a newly minted freshness to these almost operatic settings, and Mackerras certainly extracts maximum drama from Elgar’s masterly, subtly-coloured orchestral backcloth’ Gramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMackerras’s superb performance is the most bitingly passionate reading since Elgar’s own … The Cockaigne Overture, brilliantly done with high contrasts and incisive attack, makes a generous and welcome fill-up’ ***Penguin Guide to CDs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘An idiomatic feel for Elgarian rubato [Symphony No. 2] … Della Jones gives a commanding performance of the Sea Pictures’ Penguin Guide to CDs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/TRACK_LISTING_WITH_WORLD_1_4b3088c9-df3c-47ba-bf41-5b7e5d1a8144_480x480.png?v=1597936873\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEDWARD ELGAR\u003cbr\u003eSymphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55\u003cbr\u003eOverture Cockaigne, Op. 40\u003cbr\u003eSymphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63+\u003cbr\u003eSea Pictures, Op. 37*+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDella Jones, mezzo soprano*\u003cbr\u003eLondon Symphony Orchestra\u003cbr\u003eRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra+\u003cbr\u003eCharles Mackerras\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32340428390487,"sku":"028944282771 - ETC","price":7.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/products\/00028944282771-cover-1024x1018.jpg?v=1599849732","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/de-de\/products\/elgar-symphonies-nos-1-2-cockaigne-sea-pictures-mackerras-sircharles","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}