The Sketches of Edward Elgar: Completed & Orchestrated by Anthony Payne

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The first movement unfolds in a single expansion sweep without ever sounding hurried, while the wonderful Adagio builds to its awe-inspiring climax with a steady inevitability that strongly recalls... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2008
Catalogue No: SIGCD118
Label: Signum
Length: 66 minutes

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Elgar: Symphony No. 3

Work length57:37

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The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
Tadaaki Otaka

I. Allegro molto maestoso

Track length16:11

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II. Scherzo allegretto

Track length9:48

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III. Adagio solenne

Track length15:05

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IV. Allegro

Track length16:33

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Elgar: Pomp and Circumstances March No.6 - completed and orchestrated by Anthony Payne

Work length8:41

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The Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
Tadaaki Otaka

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Copyright was fast running out and the manuscripts would be free for all and sundry to tinker with come January 2005.Thus, Elgar's heirs took the laudable and sensible decision of commissioning Anthony Payne to complete an 'elaboration' of the third Symphony in 1995.

A great success at the première at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in 1998, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis's baton, the work has gone on to immense international acclaim and is gradually assuming a well-deserved place in the symphonic repertoire of orchestras the world over.

William Reed, a long time companion of the composer, and the much-esteemed leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, worked on the sketches for Pomp & Circumstance March No.6 on numerous occasions with Elgar accompanying Reed's violin. It was to Reed that the terminally ill Elgar uttered the famous words, "Don't let them tinker with it, Billy - burn it!" Billy Reed didn't consign the sketches to the bonfire, but it wasn't until 2006 that Anthony Payne completed March No.6 in fine style.This is only the second recording.

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July 2008

The first movement unfolds in a single expansion sweep without ever sounding hurried, while the wonderful Adagio builds to its awe-inspiring climax with a steady inevitability that strongly recalls Bruckner.

July 2008

A meticulous Third from an unexpected source - but the competition is fierce.

12th April 2008

Otaka and the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra need to lighten their plodding tread a little in the two Elgar works realised with ghost-like authenticity here by Anthony Payne. The Sapporo musicians play with precision and bright brasses but the Third Symphony wears thin for want of magic. The dancing scherzo lacks sensuousness. The finale becomes impatient through grinding, successive false endings.

The Sketches of Edward Elgar

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