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May 27, 2020 · Album due for release on 10th of July, 2020. Edward Elgar himself was an accomplished violinist, but strangely enough he composed only one concerto for violin. This work of over 50 minutes is rooted in the late-Romantic Germanic style, a weighty, dark and brooding affair.
GRAMMY award-winning Nicola Benedetti’s new album on Decca Classics explores music by Britain’s best loved composer, Edward Elgar. The centrepiece is his vast Violin Concerto in B minor. Op. 61 coupled with three short works for violin and piano: Salut d’Amour, Sospiri and Chanson de Nuit.
This month, Decca Records announced the release of Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti 's newest album: 'Elgar Violin Concerto'. Recorded with conductor Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the disc features Elgar's Violin Concerto in B Minor, ' Sospiri' Op. 70, ' Salut d'amour' Op. 12 and ' Chanson de Nuit' Op. 15 No. 1.
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- Elgar’s Violin Concerto: The Mystery Behind The Masterpiece
- The Intriguing Five Dots in The Concerto’S Dedication
- One Potential Clue Lies in The Enigma Variations
- More Complex Solutions Could Exist
- Recommended Recording
The autumnal, introverted nature of Edward Elgar’s Violin Concertoadds to its sense of longing and uncertainty. While these qualities are typical of Elgar to some degree, the timing here is significant. The renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler gave its world premiere on 10 November 1910; by then, the triumphalism of the Victorian era was receding, and...
The five dots in the concerto’s dedication have received probably as much attention in themselves as the entire work, and various intriguing stories surrounding them have turned out (rather disappointingly) to be red herrings. The most likely candidate for the five dots, and the one for which there appears to be most evidence, is usually considered...
But “Alice” was not the only name with five letters… One potential clue to an alternative lies in the Enigma Variations themselves. Each variation is a musical portrait: Edward Elgar’s wife, friends masculine and feminine, and, as grand finale, Elgar himself. The individual titles are fanciful nicknames, games of word association. ‘Nimrod,’ a mythi...
More complex solutions could exist, too. By the time Edward Elgar wrote the Violin Concerto, many of his friends of Enigma Variations fame were no longer alive. The Spanish quote, from the novel Gil Blasby Alain-René Lesage, is drawn from a passage in which a student reads an epitaph on a poet’s tomb. Elgar’s biographer Jerrold Northrop Moore sugge...
Our recommended recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto is performed by Nicola Benedetti with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Geoff Brown at The Times noted, “She takes on an epic and makes magic”, and The Guardian’s music critic Erica Jeal observed, “Benedetti’s tone and decisiveness is made for this work, and she br...
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Nov 29, 2020 · Review: The Guardian: Nicola Benedetti: **** Elgar Violin Concerto – full-throttle, sinuous, subtle and electric Benedetti/London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Jurowski/Limonov (Decca)
CLASSICAL · 2020. Preview. Nicola Benedetti joins that small group of violinists who have given us really special recordings of Elgar’s concerto. Accompanied by an orchestra with this music flowing in its veins—it played for Nigel Kennedy’s now-classic version— and a conductor whose attention to the score’s myriad details never ...
