EDWARD ELGAR — The Collector's Edition · The Masterpieces · The Greatest Artists (2007) 30xCD BOX-SET | WV (image+.cue), lossless

If you love the music of Edward Elgar, England's most characteristically English composer, you probably already have heard many of the recordings in EMI's 30-disc set of nearly all his music. Certainly most Elgar fans will have heard John Barbirolli's deeply moving accounts of the two symphonies and The Dream of Gerontius, Janet Baker's sweeping reading of Sea Pictures, and Jacqueline du Pré's soaring performance of the Cello Concerto. Those who have heard Boult's delicate The Sanguine Fan and incidental music from Grania and Diarmid, or Neville Marriner's tender Carissima and Salut d'amour are probably rarer, and those who have heard the elegiac chamber music performed by the Music Group of London and the heroic piano music played by John Ogdon are much rarer still. For those who love Elgar, the less frequently recorded works are probably the most eagerly sought after, and with uniformly excellent performances and superb sound, plus an amazingly low price, this set will be irresistible. James Leonard
EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)
Tracklist :
Credits :
Symphonies Concertos Overtures - Sir John Barbirolli
The Dream of Gerontius - Sir John Barbirolli
The Kingdom The Apostles - Sir Adrian Boult
Choral Music - Sir Charles Groves · Richard Hickox
Orchestral Songs - Janet Baker · Robert Tear
Incidental Music - Vernon Handley
Bonus CD - Elgar conducts Elgar

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : The Collector Edition (2008) 30xCD / FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Celebrated as the musical poet of of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range; from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the violence of the Fourth Symphony and the grand ceremonial of All people that on earth do dwell, he assumed the mantle of Elgar as our national composer. This edition, released to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, presents all the major orchestral, chamber, vocal & stage works, as well as many lesser pieces and rarities, in the finest interpretations. All you favourite Vaughan Williams is here, in over 34 hours of music on 30 CDs.

Symphonies • Concertos • Orchestral Music
Vernon Handley • Richard Hickox

Choral Music  
Sir Adrian Boult • Sir David Willcocks

Songs • Folksongs
Anthony Rolfe Johnson • Ian Partridge • Robert Tear

Job • The Pilgrim's Progress
Sir Adrian Boult

Hugh the Drover
Sir Charles Groves

Riders to the Sea • Sir John in Love
Meredith Davis

HOLST : The Collector's Edition (2012) 6xCD BOX-SET | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Tracklist :
CD 1 The Planets - The Perfect Fool - Egdon Heath 73:54
CD 2 A Somerset Rhapsody - Brook Green Suite - A Fugal Concerto - Beni Mora - St Paul's Suite - Hymns from the Rig Veda, 2nd Group - Ode to Death 76:26
CD 3 Psalm 86 - A Choral Fantasia - Suites for Military Band - A Moorside Suite - Hammersmith 74:35
CD 4 Hymns from the Rig Veda, 4th Group - The Homecoming - A Dirge for Two Veterans - Six Choral Folk Songs - Choruses, canons and carols 71:18
CD 5 The Hymn of Jesus - Short Festival Te Deum - Choral Symphony 77:05
CD 6 The Wandering Scholar - At the Boar's Head 75:46 

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