Barbirolli Conducts English String Music Elgar Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Of London LP
LP

Elgar Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Of London / Barbirolli – Barbirolli Conducts English String Music

Label: His Master's Voice

Catalog#: ASD 521

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
record is VG++ Mint
cover has slight ringwear


Country: UK Released:



Genre: Classical

Style: Modern




Tracklist

Elgar


A1 Introduction And Allegro For Strings, Op. 47


A2 Serenade In E Minor, Op. 20


A2.I Allegro Piacevole


A2.II Larghetto



A2.III Allegretto - Come Prima


Vaughan Williams

B1 Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis


B2 Fantasia On "Greensleeves"







Credits

Composed By – Edward Elgar (tracks: A1, A2), Ralph Vaughan Williams (tracks: B1, B2)
Conductor – Sir John Barbirolli
Liner Notes – Burnett James
Orchestra – Sinfonia Of London, The
Strings [Quartet] – Allegri String Quartet, The (tracks: A1)


Notes

One of the cornerstones of the entire classical catalogue, Sir John Barbirolli's wholly treasurable 1962 collection of English string music still sounds extraordinarily vivid across the decades. Perhaps the highlight here is the unforgettable account of Vaughan Williams's towering Tallis Fantasia: not only does Barbirolli obtain the most eloquent string playing imaginable, his conducting strikes a perfect equilibrium between lyrical ardour and lofty serenity. Scarcely less memorable is this much-loved figure's fifth and final recording of Elgar's Introduction and Allegro,

If anything generates an even more exhilarating physicality and overwhelming emotional clout. Both the Elgar Serenade for strings and VW's indestructible Greensleeves Fantasia are given with disarming freshness and poise..