There are days when only Elgar will do

There are days when only Elgar will do

Album Of The Week

norman lebrecht

February 07, 2025

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

There are days when only Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral colour relieves existential gloom like no other remedy. The first symphony delivers pull-your-socks-up bluster and the second a subtler encouragement. Elgar always does it for me.

This extraordinary double-album…

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