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The strings dig joyfully into the Introduction and Allegro, caress the phrases of Sospiri, and in the Enigma despatch the swirling scale figures of "Troyte" and the finale with unmatchable precision.
The strings dig joyfully into the Introduction and Allegro, caress the phrases of Sospiri, and in the Enigma despatch the swirling scale figures of "Troyte" and the finale with unmatchable precision.
| John Eliot Gardiner | Conductor |
| Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Performing Ensemble |
| Edward Elgar | Composer |
Editorial Reviews
Barnes & Noble - Andrew Farach-Colton
This is not the Vienna Philharmonic's first recording of Elgar's music -- Georg Solti in his later years recorded the Enigma Variations Decca with them -- but how refreshing it is to hear the VPO play it again. The sweetness and suavity of their sound is something special; they give a virtuosic account of the concert overture In the South, but it is their beautifully refined playing of the nostalgic central interlude that sticks in the memory. The Introduction and Allegro shows off the exquisite tone of the orchestra's strings -- as beautiful in an incisive forte as in the most feathery pianissimo. Sospiri is atmospheric, certainly, yet it lacks that tinge of ...