Sir Edward Elgar The Symphonies

摘要

We have to admit that, at present at any rate, Elgar does not travel,' noted the much respected Gramophone reviewer Trevor Harvey, in 1964. He was writing about one of Sir Adrian Boult's less well known recordings of the Symphony No 2, made with the Scottish National Orchestra and issued on the Waverley label. At least the composer's Enigma Variations had travelled. It was long in Toscanini's recorded repertoire with his NBC Orchestra and he'd conducted it in 1937 with the BBC SO. But today's discography for Elgar's two Symphonies has as frontrunners CDs with the Berlin Staatskapelle and Stockholm PO.