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Britten: Cello Symphony; Elgar: Cello Concerto / Truls Otterbech Mork

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello in E minor, Op. 85; Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4
Performers: Truls Mork, Truls Otterbech
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

British Music / Sir Simon Rattle

11 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations; Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42; Falstaff, symphonic study for orchestra in C minor, Op. 68; Concerto for Violin in B minor, Op. 61; The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38; Pomp a...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Elms, Roderick; Hampson, Thomas; Harrell, Lynn; Heinen, Ulrich; Kennedy, Nigel [Violin]; Mitchinson, John; Shirley-Qui...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir; Halsey, Simon;
Ensemble: Berliner Philharmoniker; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchest

This new 11CD box set in the Simon Rattle Edition contains many favorites from the English repertory including Elgar's Engma Variations and Violin Concerto, Walton's...continue...

Elgar, Barber: Cello Concertos / Gastinel, Brown, Birmingham

1 CD / Naïve / 2004-02-01

Works: Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Samuel Barber: Concerto for Cello in A minor, Op. 22
Performers: Gastinel, Anne
Conductors: Brown, Justin
Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Both of these concertos carry an air of romanticism and nostalgia. This was Elgar's last orchestral masterpiece, written shortly after World War I destroyed the...continue...

Elgar: Violin Concerto; Vaughan Williams / Kennedy, Rattle

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2003-06-03

Works: Edward Elgar: Concerto for Violin in B minor, Op. 61; Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending
Performers: Kennedy, Nigel [Violin]
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

"After a five-year sabbatical, the self-consciously antiestablishment Kennedy has returned to the classical music scene...if anything, the sheer technique of this performance eclipses that on...continue...