An Elgar Enigma: Might he sound better in German?
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
There was a time when I could not get through the month without experiencing Elgar’s music in the flesh. So English, so reassuring, so easily chiming with a young man’s frustrations and aspirations. These days, there is much less Elgar about, and I have no idea where one
might turn for instant comfort. The arrival of two Elgar sets in the same week is both encouraging and challenging: might there be two paths to Elgar in a century of cultural retrogression?
Read on in The Critic here.
And here.
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