Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37

This page lists all recordings of Sea Pictures, Op. 37, by Edward William Elgar (1857-1934) on CD, SACD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock.

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Elgar: Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures & Cockaigne Overture

Elgar: Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures & Cockaigne Overture


Elgar:

Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 'In London Town'

Philharmonia Orchestra

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Jacqueline du Pré (cello)

London Symphony Orchestra

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Janet Baker (mezzo–soprano)

London Symphony Orchestra


EMI Masters - 6230752

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Elgar: Cello Concerto & Sea Pictures

Elgar: Cello Concerto & Sea Pictures


Delius:

Songs of Farewell

Royal Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Cello Concerto

Jacqueline du Pré (cello)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Elgar:

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85

Jacqueline du Pré (cello)

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli


“Jacqueline du Pré’s unsurpassed recording of the [Elgar] Concerto hardly needs any further recommendation from us, spontaneous in its freely rhapsodic style but with a very special kind of meditative feeling. A concerto that should be in every collection.” Penguin Guide

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The Very Best of Janet Baker

The Very Best of Janet Baker


Bach, J S:

Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Bereite dich, Zion

Academy of St Martin-In-The-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Brahms:

Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

Sir Adrian Boult, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91 No. 2

Cecil Aronowitz (viola), André Previn

Britten:

Corpus Christi Carol

Gerald Moore (piano)

Duparc:

L'Invitation au voyage

London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn

Duruflé:

Requiem, Op. 9: Pie Jesu

Choir of King's College Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger

Elgar:

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul 'Angel's Farewell' (from The Dream of Gerontius)

Sir John Barbirolli

Fauré:

Two Songs, Op. 83

Gerald Moore (piano)

Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2

Gerald Moore (piano)

Handel:

Messiah: He was despised

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Mahler:

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

Mendelssohn:

Elijah: O rest in the Lord

New Philharmonia, Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos

Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Schubert:

Ave Maria, D839

Gerald Moore (piano)

Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118

Gerald Moore (piano)

Wiegenlied, D498

Gerald Moore (piano)

Die Forelle, D550

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

An die Musik D547

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

An Sylvia, D891

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Nacht und Träume, D827

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Heidenröslein, D257

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)

Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

Schumann:

Mondnacht (No. 5 from Liederkreis, Op. 39)

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Du Ring an meinem Finger (No. 4 from Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42)

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

Strauss, R:

Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4

Gerald Moore (piano)

Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4

Gerald Moore (piano)

Vaughan Williams:

Linden Lea

Gerald Moore (piano)

Warlock:

Pretty Ring Time

Gerald Moore (piano)


Janet Baker (mezzo)

Compelling for her intensity and integrity as much as for her unmistakeable voice, Dame Janet Baker struck a distinctive path as a performer, primarily on the concert and recital stage. Among her most celebrated recordings are her interpretations of Elgar with Sir John Barbirolli, here complemented by songs and oratorio arias by composers such as Bach, Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Fauré, Vaughan Williams and Britten.

EMI - The Very Best of... - 0947172

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Handley conducts Elgar

Handley conducts Elgar

Vital broadcast recordings from Capital Radio, 1984


Elgar:

Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Dame Janet Baker (mezzo)


This release is a tribute to Vernon Handley's long and valued association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra extending back over 45 years.

A very special relationship exists with the music of Edward Elgar as the London Philharmonic Orchestra is often referred to as ‘Elgar’s Orchestra’. The LPO also had a special association with Vernon Handley and this release in a small way acknowledges Handley's contribution to the Orchestra's life. It marks the first re-issue onto a single disc of the acclaimed recording of Dame Janet Baker's Sea Pictures from a concert recorded by Capital Radio in 1984 and a landmark premiere release from the same concert of Elgar's Symphony No.1. When the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Elgar Society were planning a concert to mark the 50th anniversary of Elgar’s death, Vernon Handley was the natural choice of conductor. Handley’s feeling for English music was second to none, and his rapport with Elgar’s music in particular is clear in these performances recorded live at the anniversary concert. Sea Pictures evokes contrasting images of the sea from ve poems sung here by Dame Janet Baker, a peerless interpreter of the work. Elgar’s first Symphony is one of Elgar’s finest works for orchestra – hailed after its première as ‘the greatest symphony of modern times’. Here in this recording Handley conducts a wonderfully paced reading of the Symphony and the LPO have performed and recorded this symphony countless times, rarely with more refinement and assurance than heard here for the first time in this live recording.

Includes scholarly CD notes by Elgar expert and past Chairman of the Elgar Society, Andrew Neill.

“Vernon Handley's eloquent account of the First Symphony, restrained yet generously abandoned, is one to treasure. But the plum is Janet Baker's Sea Pictures...Her glorious, rich contralto voice, soaring and floating, is made for this music.” The Observer, 9th May 2010

“Handley’s heart, Elgar-attuned, is in the right place — as is his stick...his passionate account of this wonderful movement [the adagio] is very fine. And the work’s dramatic coda is superbly done. Janet Baker is in glorious voice in Sea Pictures.” Sunday Times, 9th May 2010

“[Baker's] account of Sea Pictures is quite glorious, more rapturously beautiful and intense even than her famous EMI recording with John Barbirolli ...[Handley] projects a fiercely uncompromising view of Elgar [in the Symphony]...making the return of the opening march to crown the finale into a deeply ambiguous triumph.” The Guardian, 20th May 2010 *****

“...there is no want of lustre in [Baker's] Sea Pictures: she is in rapturous voice, and the “live” dimension adds extra frisson. As for the First Symphony, Handley demonstrates his mastery at revealing myriad details while keeping a firm grasp of the work’s expansive architecture, and the LPO is on superlative form.” Financial Times, 26th June 2010 ****

“[Handley has] a feeling for Elgar phrasing with the freedom and flexibility that can only come from long study and precise understanding. The symphony's essence is the progress of the 'great beautiful tune'...Handley never loses sight of this, letting it (or the kernel of four falling notes) emerge unemphatically but with meaning throughout.” International Record Review, July/August 2010

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Elgar - Complete Songs for voice & piano Volume 1

Elgar - Complete Songs for voice & piano Volume 1


Elgar:

The Self-Banished (1875)

Oh, soft was the song, Op. 59, No. 3

Canto Popolare (In Moonlight)

Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1

There Are Seven That Pull the Thread

Twilight, Op. 59 No. 1

The wind at dawn

In the Dawn, Op. 41, No. 1

Speak, Music, Op. 41, No. 2

Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (H.King)

Always and Everywhere (1901)

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Like to the Damask Rose

Queen Mary’s Song

A Song of Autumn

Come, Gentle Night (C.Bingham)


Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Konrad Jarnot (baritone) & Reinild Mees (piano)

“Konrad Jarnot is mesmerising in the opening slumber, and with noble tones from pianist Reinid Mills he makes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sabbath Morning at Sea' more persuasive than I've ever heard it.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ****

“Here's another fresh slant on Elgar's masterly Sea Pictures, this time a most persuasive first recording employing a make voice… With this exemplary diction, unflustered poise and focused tone… Konrad Jarnot forges an instinctive alliance with the admirable Reinild Mees, who accompanies with stylish understanding. Amanda Roocroft... contributes very creditably...” Gramophone Magazine, April 2008

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Elgar - Songs and Piano Music

Elgar - Songs and Piano Music


Elgar:

Seven Lieder

A War Song (Hayward), Op. 5

Is she not passing fair

As I laye a-thynkynge (Ingoldsby)

premiere recording

Salut d'amour, Op. 12

The wind at dawn

After (P.B.Marston) Op. 31, No. 1

Woodland Interlude from Caractacus

Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (H.King)

The Pipes of Pan

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

(Elgar’s own piano version)

Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul 'Angel's Farewell' (from The Dream of Gerontius)

(Elgar’s own piano version)

The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 - Prelude

(Elgar’s own piano version)

Come, Gentle Night (C.Bingham)

In the Dawn, Op. 41, No. 1

Speak, Music, Op. 41, No. 2

Dream Children, Op. 43

Arabian serenade

Canto Popolare (In Moonlight)

Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1

Twilight, Op. 59 No. 1

Fringes of the Fleet

"?" (March 1918)

It isnae me (S.Holmes)

XTC (unpublished, to Elgar’s own words)


David Owen Norris (piano), The Works: Amanda Pitt (soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor) & Peter Savidge (baritone)

A tribute to Elgar's 150th birthday (2007), David Owen Norris and The Works perform Elgar's songs and piano solos on Elgar's own 1844 Broadwood piano, including the world-premiere of his unpublished final song XTC, set to his own words. In all, this 2-CD set presents 32 of Elgar's finest songs for voice and piano, including a number never recorded before, and premiere recordings of Elgar's piano arrangements of the theme of the Cello Concerto, and the Prelude and Angel’s Farewell from Gerontius which, like Sea Pictures (sung here in its original soprano key) and the Woodland Interlude from Caractacus, were all composed at this piano. He even wrote these titles on its soundboard, along with his signature. These piano versions clearly remained in the forefront of Elgar’s mind and reveal his bold first thoughts before they may have been revised at the suggestion of others. The piano’s construction – keys slightly narrower than on a modern piano, the black keys set lower – illuminates Elgar’s intentions. The writing suddenly makes perfect sense, which it doesn’t always on a modern Steinway.

The cover art is H.A. Payne’s The Enchanted Sea, which was part of the inspiration for Sea Pictures.

“A veritable treasure-trove.” BBC Radio 3

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Elgar: Sea Pictures

Elgar: Sea Pictures


Elgar:

The Music Makers, Op. 69

Sea Pictures, Op. 37


Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Simon Wright

“ The Music Makers is one of Elgar's most poignant and troubled utterances which movingly incorporates material from some of his greatest compositions, and it can hold its head high. Simon Wright steers a commendably clear-sighted course and coaxes an idiomatic response from his Bournemouth forces. Sarah Connolly proves scarcely less raptly responsive than Baker (for Boult), singing with glorious radiance, security and richness of tone; her delivery of the final line ('And a singer who sings no more') is deeply affecting.
Connolly also steps up to the mark in the SeaPictures (which follows after too short a gap). Hers is a gripping, intelligent display, combining keen poetic and dramatic instinct with clarity of diction, all technical challenges effortlessly surmounted.
A performance to hear alongside the classic Baker recording”
Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

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Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & Sea Pictures

Elgar: Symphony No. 2 & Sea Pictures


Elgar:

Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Bernadette Greevy (mezzo-soprano)


London Philharmonic, Vernon Handley

“A sensitive and clear performance which evokes the heyday of Sir John Barbirolli.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2005

“Handley's is the most satisfying modern version of a work which has been much recorded over the years. What Handley conveys superbly is the sense of Elgarian ebb and flow, building climaxes like a master and drawing excellent, spontaneous-sounding playing” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

EMI Classics for Pleasure - 5753062

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Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55, etc.

Elgar:

Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55

Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 'In London Town'

Symphony No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 63

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Della Jones (mezzo soprano)


“Readings that satisfy with insight and excitement.” MusicWeb International

“An idiomatic feel for Elgarian rubato [Symphony No. 2] ... Della Jones gives a commanding performance of the Sea Pictures” Penguin Guide

Australian Eloquence - 4428277

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The Very Best of Janet Baker

The Very Best of Janet Baker


Bach, J S:

Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Bereite dich, Zion

Brahms:

Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53

Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91 No. 2

Britten:

Corpus Christi Carol

Duparc:

L'Invitation au voyage

Duruflé:

Requiem, Op. 9: Pie Jesu

Elgar:

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul 'Angel's Farewell' (from The Dream of Gerontius)

Fauré:

Two Songs, Op. 83

Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2

Handel:

Messiah: He was despised

Mahler:

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

Mendelssohn:

Elijah: O rest in the Lord

Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2

Schubert:

Ave Maria, D839

Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118

Wiegenlied, D498

Die Forelle, D550

Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774

An die Musik D547

An Sylvia, D891

Nacht und Träume, D827

Heidenröslein, D257

Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)

Schumann:

Mondnacht (No. 5 from Liederkreis, Op. 39)

Du Ring an meinem Finger (No. 4 from Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42)

Strauss, R:

Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4

Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4

Vaughan Williams:

Linden Lea

Warlock:

Pretty Ring Time


Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

One of this country’s finest and most popular singers, Dame Janet Baker has a special place in the hearts of music-lovers throughout the land. Since making her Covent Garden and New York debuts in 1966 she has become synonymous with a wide range of much-loved baroque and romantic repertoire. Janet Baker was made a Dame 25 years ago. Here, for the first time, EMI have gathered together some of her most memorable performances on one double CD.

EMI - The Very Best of... - 5750692

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