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

FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 1 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2001) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 2 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2002) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 3 (Howard Shelley · BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2004) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 4 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2004) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 5 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2004) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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FRANK BRIDGE : Orchetral Works, Vol. 6 (BBC National Orchestra Of Wales · Richard Hickox) (2005) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

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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

FRANCIS POULENC : Keyboard Concertos (2004) 5CD Set / APE (image+.cue), lossless

English formations are amazing and incredibly accurate in symphonic and choral music. Richard Hickok is no longer to present, his finesse and his style are exemplary in this music that requires much more than just a performance. In whimsical aspects, Poulenc's music suggests the child, sometimes virginal tenderness. Britten has the same delicacy in "a boy was born” or in some of his “Canticles” or in the following melodies ": The Holy sonnets of John Donne”. “Averum corpus”, “Four motets for a Christmas time” and many other songs by Francis Poulenc also have this height, this modest sensitivity. A very nice box to listen and listen again web
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POULENC : The Concertos for Solo Keyboard (Hickox) (1990) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless