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Elgar: Enigma Variations, In the South, Serenade
Edward Elgar

The Philharmonia Orchestra / SIr An

Elgar: Enigma Variations, In the South, Serenade

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212016824
Catnr: SIGCD 168
Release date: 01 June 2009
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212016824
Catalogue number
SIGCD 168
Release date
01 June 2009
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Composer(s)
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About the album

The Philharmonia Orchestra is widely recognised as the UK’s finest orchestra with an impressive recording legacy, this being their fifth disc with Signum. This disc combines the Philharmonia’s renowned sound with the leadership of Maestro Davis, who’s recording and performing career spans through all the great orchestras of the world. This disc features Elgar’s best known orchestral works; The Enigma Variations depict twelve of Elgar’s family and friends in fourteen variations built on the original Enigma theme, one of Elgar’s earliest and still most frequently played orchestral works, Serenade for Strings, and In the South, Elgar’s Concert Overture written for the Elgar festival in 1904.

Artist(s)

Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia was founded in 1945 by EMI producer Walter Legge, and has worked with a who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century music. Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali took up the baton as Principal Conductor in September 2021. The sixth person to hold the title, he is known for his expressive, balletic conducting style and irrepressible energy. Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini, Riccardo Muti and Esa-Pekka Salonen are just a few of the great artists to be associated with the Philharmonia, and the Orchestra has premiered works by Richard Strauss, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Errollyn Wallen, Kaija Saariaho and many others. Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, in the heart of London, has been the Philharmonia’s home since 1995. The Orchestra also has residencies at venues and festivals across England, each embracing a Learning & Engagement programme that empowers people to engage...
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The Philharmonia was founded in 1945 by EMI producer Walter Legge, and has worked with a who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century music. Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali took up the baton as Principal Conductor in September 2021. The sixth person to hold the title, he is known for his expressive, balletic conducting style and irrepressible energy.
Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini, Riccardo Muti and Esa-Pekka Salonen are just a few of the great artists to be associated with the Philharmonia, and the Orchestra has premiered works by Richard Strauss, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Errollyn Wallen, Kaija Saariaho and many others.
Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, in the heart of London, has been the Philharmonia’s home since 1995.
The Orchestra also has residencies at venues and festivals across England, each embracing a Learning & Engagement programme that empowers people to engage with, and participate in, orchestral music.
The Philharmonia’s international reputation is built in part on its extraordinary 76-year recording legacy, which in the last ten years has been built on by pioneering work with digital technology. The Orchestra’s installations and VR experiences have introduced hundreds of thousands of people to the symphony orchestra. The Philharmonia has won four Royal Philharmonic Society awards for its digital projects and audience engagement work.
The Philharmonia is the go-to orchestra for many film and videogame composers in the UK and Hollywood, and its music-making has been experienced by millions of cinema-goers and gamers. It has recorded around 150 soundtracks, with film credits stretching back to 1947.

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Andrew Davis (conductor)

Composer(s)

Edward Elgar

Eward Elgar was a British composer, who stood on the forefront of the revival of English music around 1900. Many of his works have entered the international concert repertoire, although there are performed more often in Britain than elsewhere. Although Elgar is often considered as a typically English composer, he has primarily been influenced by composers on the European continent. He was contemptuous of folk music and had little respect for English Renaissance and Baroque composers. Instead he was particularly inspired by Dvorák, Händel and Brahms, and the clarity of 19th-century French composers, which resonates through his orchestrations. Elgar was autodidact, and learned to play the organ, violin and viola at an early age within the musical family in which he was...
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Eward Elgar was a British composer, who stood on the forefront of the revival of English music around 1900. Many of his works have entered the international concert repertoire, although there are performed more often in Britain than elsewhere.
Although Elgar is often considered as a typically English composer, he has primarily been influenced by composers on the European continent. He was contemptuous of folk music and had little respect for English Renaissance and Baroque composers. Instead he was particularly inspired by Dvorák, Händel and Brahms, and the clarity of 19th-century French composers, which resonates through his orchestrations.
Elgar was autodidact, and learned to play the organ, violin and viola at an early age within the musical family in which he was brought up. He also composed and arranged music for various ensembles. He became somewhat well-known with his overture Froissart, but only gained international recognition after composing his Enigma Variations in 1899. Currently researchers are still trying to find out which melody Elgar has hidden within the variations.
Other famous works by Elgar are the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, the oratorio The Dream of Gerontinus and the Cello Concerto.
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Theme (Andante) Enigma
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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02:56
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 1 (L'istesso tempo) C. A. E.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 2 (Allegro) H. D. S-P.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 3 (Allegretto) R. B. T.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 4 (Allegro di molto) W. M. B.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 5 (Moderato) R. P. A.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 6 (Andantino) Ysobel
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 7 (Presto) Troyte
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 8 (Allegretto) W. N.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 9 (Adagio) Nimrod
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 10 (Intermezzo: Allegretto) Dorabella
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 11 (Allegro di molto) G. R. S.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 12 (Andante) B. G. N.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 13 (Romanza: Moderato) * * *
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra (Enigma): Variation 14 (Finale: Allegro) E. D. U.
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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In the South (Alassio)
22:52
(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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03:24
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Serenade for Strings: I Allegro placevole
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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05:40
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Serenade for Strings: II Larghetto
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(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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02:54
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Serenade for Strings: III Allegretto
02:54
(Edward Elgar) The Philharmonia Orchestra
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