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Edward Gardner|Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & Serenade for Strings

Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & Serenade for Strings

Edward Gardner, BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Although the 1911 Second Symphony is without a doubt – alongside the slightly later Cello Concerto – the greatest work by the mature Elgar, the Serenade for Strings, finished in 1892 but based on even older material, is clearly the masterpiece of his youth. The Symphony, the last one that the composer finished (a Third was left under construction), is not short of typically English pomp, but the most salient feature of the work is definitely the vast contrast from one movement to the next, or indeed within a given movement, where spontaneous outbursts of feeling mix with regal bursts and doleful chants that speak of a kind of underlying mourning. The Serenade speaks happily of the pleasant English countryside, a kind of song without words: a profoundly British sort of Mendelssohnian inheritance. the BBC Symphony Orchestra swims like a fish in the water of this ineffable, fine music that's bursting with hidden meanings. © SM/Qobuz

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Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 63 (Edward Elgar)

1
I. Allegro vivace e nobilmente
00:17:51

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Edward ELGAR, Composer - Edward Gardner, Conductor, MainArtist

2018 Chandos Records 2018 Chandos Records

2
II. Larghetto
00:14:07

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Edward ELGAR, Composer - Edward Gardner, Conductor, MainArtist

2018 Chandos Records 2018 Chandos Records

3
III. Rondo. Presto
00:08:07

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Edward ELGAR, Composer - Edward Gardner, Conductor, MainArtist

2018 Chandos Records 2018 Chandos Records

4
IV. Moderato e maestoso
00:15:03

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Edward ELGAR, Composer - Edward Gardner, Conductor, MainArtist

2018 Chandos Records 2018 Chandos Records

Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 20 (Edward Elgar)

5
I. Allegro piacevole
00:03:07

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Edward ELGAR, Composer - Edward Gardner, Conductor, MainArtist

2018 Chandos Records 2018 Chandos Records

6
II. Larghetto
00:05:49

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Edward ELGAR, Composer - Edward Gardner, Conductor, MainArtist

2018 Chandos Records 2018 Chandos Records

7
III. Allegretto
00:02:35

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Edward ELGAR, Composer - Edward Gardner, Conductor, MainArtist

2018 Chandos Records 2018 Chandos Records

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Although the 1911 Second Symphony is without a doubt – alongside the slightly later Cello Concerto – the greatest work by the mature Elgar, the Serenade for Strings, finished in 1892 but based on even older material, is clearly the masterpiece of his youth. The Symphony, the last one that the composer finished (a Third was left under construction), is not short of typically English pomp, but the most salient feature of the work is definitely the vast contrast from one movement to the next, or indeed within a given movement, where spontaneous outbursts of feeling mix with regal bursts and doleful chants that speak of a kind of underlying mourning. The Serenade speaks happily of the pleasant English countryside, a kind of song without words: a profoundly British sort of Mendelssohnian inheritance. the BBC Symphony Orchestra swims like a fish in the water of this ineffable, fine music that's bursting with hidden meanings. © SM/Qobuz

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