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Elgar: Cello Concerto / Arlia, Sollima, Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
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Elgar: Cello Concerto / Arlia, Sollima, Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria

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Details

Composer
ELGAR, EDWARD
Artist
Sollima, Arlia
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Oct 22, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96039
UPC
5028421960395

About

From Arturo Toscanini and Sir John Barbirolli to Riccardo Muti and Antonio Pappano in our own time, Italian-heritage performers have often brought special qualities of sympathy and understanding to Edward Elgar’s (1857-1934) music. Now comes a new recording made in the ‘boot’ of southern Italy, lending Mediterranean warmth and passion to a trio of Elgarian masterpieces. The Sicilian-born cellist Giovanni Sollima has made well-received albums for Brilliant Classics of music by Offenbach (94475) and by his father Eliodoro Sollima (96287). His latest recording, made at the Teatro Politeama in the one-time ‘lace capital’ of Europe, Catanzaro, illuminates one of the core works of the cello literature with an affecting sense of line and sensitivity to the melancholy introversion which colors every bar of the Concerto composed by Elgar in the wake of the First World War. Twenty years earlier, Elgar’s reputation was secured with audiences across Europe and America through the whirlwind success of his “Enigma” Variations. The stoic beauty of ‘Nimrod’, the gentle wit of ‘Dorabella’ and the nervous excitement and pride of the autobiographical finale spoke directly to listeners who would never know the composer or his ‘friends pictured within’. The agitated, impassioned voice of Elgar in the Variations belonged to its end-of-Empire time and place, orchestrated with a mastery which would soon draw the admiration of Richard Strauss and many more musicians on the other side of the English Channel. Even that quintessential expression of Englishness, the first of five marches which Elgar collected under the Shakesperean banner of “Pomp and Circumstance” and later repurposed to set ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ for the finale of his Coronation Ode, won the composer standing ovations when he conducted it in concerts across mainland Europe. Under the affectionate baton of their music director Filippo Arlia, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria interpret Elgar’s music with a sensitivity and extroversion worthy of the composer.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 5 Military Marches, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance": No. 1 in D Major, "Land of Hope and Glory" 06:45
    Track
    1
    Title
    5 Military Marches, Op. 39, "Pomp and Circumstance": No. 1 in D Major, "Land of Hope and Glory"
    Duration
    06:45
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  2. 2 I. Adagio 07:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    07:47
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  3. 3 II. Lento 04:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Lento
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  4. 4 III. Adagio 04:55
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  5. 5 IV. Allegro 11:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    11:00
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Giovanni Sollima
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  6. 6 Theme: Andante 01:53
    Track
    6
    Title
    Theme: Andante
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  7. 7 Variation 1: C. A. E. (The Composer's Wife) 02:05
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variation 1: C. A. E. (The Composer's Wife)
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  8. 8 Variation 2: H. D. S-P. (Hew David Steuart-Powell) 01:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variation 2: H. D. S-P. (Hew David Steuart-Powell)
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  9. 9 Variation 3: R. B. T. (Richard Baxter Townshend) 01:36
    Track
    9
    Title
    Variation 3: R. B. T. (Richard Baxter Townshend)
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  10. 10 Variation 4: W. M. B. (William Meath Baker) 00:33
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variation 4: W. M. B. (William Meath Baker)
    Duration
    00:33
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  11. 11 Variation 5: R. P. A. (Richard Penrose Arnold) 02:26
    Track
    11
    Title
    Variation 5: R. P. A. (Richard Penrose Arnold)
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  12. 12 Variation 6: Ysobel (Isabel Fitton) 01:19
    Track
    12
    Title
    Variation 6: Ysobel (Isabel Fitton)
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  13. 13 Variation 7: Troyte (Troyte Griffith) 01:11
    Track
    13
    Title
    Variation 7: Troyte (Troyte Griffith)
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  14. 14 Variation 8: W. N. (Winifred Norbury) 02:18
    Track
    14
    Title
    Variation 8: W. N. (Winifred Norbury)
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  15. 15 Variation 9: Nimrod (A. J. Jaeger) 05:14
    Track
    15
    Title
    Variation 9: Nimrod (A. J. Jaeger)
    Duration
    05:14
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  16. 16 Variation 10: Intermezzo: Dorabella (Dora Penny) 02:47
    Track
    16
    Title
    Variation 10: Intermezzo: Dorabella (Dora Penny)
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  17. 17 Variation 11: G. R. S. (George Robertson Sinclair) 01:09
    Track
    17
    Title
    Variation 11: G. R. S. (George Robertson Sinclair)
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  18. 18 Variation 12: B. G. N. (Basil G. Nevinson) 02:35
    Track
    18
    Title
    Variation 12: B. G. N. (Basil G. Nevinson)
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  19. 19 Variation 13: Romanza: *** (Lady Mary Lygon) 02:58
    Track
    19
    Title
    Variation 13: Romanza: *** (Lady Mary Lygon)
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia
  20. 20 Variation 14: Finale: E. D. U. (The Composer) 06:40
    Track
    20
    Title
    Variation 14: Finale: E. D. U. (The Composer)
    Duration
    06:40
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
    Conductor
    Filippo Arlia