Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works

Two much-loved orchestral favourites representing the summit of Elgar’s maturity are coupled with three of the lesser-known wartime works, here receiving their first recordings with the original French texts. Kate Royal is the soprano soloist in Une voix dans le désert, a hauntingly tender masterpiece which every Elgarian should know.

CDA68101  81 minutes 55 seconds
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE'S RECORDING OF THE MONTH (DECEMBER 2016)
SUNDAY TIMES' ALBUM OF THE WEEK
CLASSAL SOURCE EDITOR'S CHOICE
‘Brabbins proves a comparably unhurried, affectionate and cannily observant guide through Enigma, the friends pictured within springing to life with unforced naturalness … an enjoyable and stimul ...
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