Edward Elgar
01. - 15. Variations on an Original Theme, op.36 'Enigma'* [27'18]
16. Introduction and Allegro, op. 47 [13'36]
17. - 20. Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85 [27'09]
21. Elegy, op.58# [4'00]
Andre Navarra- cello, Halle Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli
EMI Phoenixa CDM763955-2 (recorded June December 1956 & May 1957; this CD issued 1991)
(flacs; CD rip, booklet, cover and inlay scans)
Recording venue: Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Recording engineer: Robert Fine*; Robert Auger; Producer: Wilma Cozart & Harold Lawrence*; Alan Melville; Douglas Terry#
I originally tried to upload these fine 60 year old recordings back in 2015 as a comment to another post here on MIMIC but it was one of a number of posts that were targeted by a troll claiming copyright. Hopefully, this post will survive longer. This is not my rip but is taken from a torrent which had tracks in an incorrect order which I have corrected here. Nevertheless, many thanks to the original uploader. EMI took over the complete Pye catalogue in the late 1980s and issued many of their classical recordings on the punning Phoenixa label.
The Enigma Variations is another Wilma Cozart/Robert Fine stereo recording - made by the Mercury team for Pye Nixa in the UK. Excellent but, for me, it does not supplant Malcolm Sargent's 1959 recording for EMI with the Philharmonia. Unfortunately, the Cello Concerto with Andre Navarra was only recorded in mono but still has excellent sound. I read that Pye Nixa didn't possess a stereo recorder in 1956/7 but the Introduction and Allegro and the Elergy are both here in stereo.
Despite the Halle Orchestra being nowhere near the fine ensemble that it has become nowadays, all of these performances are outstanding - particularly the Cello Concerto (selected by Andrew Achenbach as his top recording in a survey for Gramophone magazine).
Download from Yandexhttps://yadi.sk/d/iPf3v8HRmgI5_Ahttps://yadi.sk/d/iPf3v8HRmgI5_Ahttps://yadi.sk/d/iPf3v8HRmgI5_A
01. - 15. Variations on an Original Theme, op.36 'Enigma'* [27'18]
16. Introduction and Allegro, op. 47 [13'36]
17. - 20. Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85 [27'09]
21. Elegy, op.58# [4'00]
Andre Navarra- cello, Halle Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli
EMI Phoenixa CDM763955-2 (recorded June December 1956 & May 1957; this CD issued 1991)
(flacs; CD rip, booklet, cover and inlay scans)
Recording venue: Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Recording engineer: Robert Fine*; Robert Auger; Producer: Wilma Cozart & Harold Lawrence*; Alan Melville; Douglas Terry#
I originally tried to upload these fine 60 year old recordings back in 2015 as a comment to another post here on MIMIC but it was one of a number of posts that were targeted by a troll claiming copyright. Hopefully, this post will survive longer. This is not my rip but is taken from a torrent which had tracks in an incorrect order which I have corrected here. Nevertheless, many thanks to the original uploader. EMI took over the complete Pye catalogue in the late 1980s and issued many of their classical recordings on the punning Phoenixa label.
The Enigma Variations is another Wilma Cozart/Robert Fine stereo recording - made by the Mercury team for Pye Nixa in the UK. Excellent but, for me, it does not supplant Malcolm Sargent's 1959 recording for EMI with the Philharmonia. Unfortunately, the Cello Concerto with Andre Navarra was only recorded in mono but still has excellent sound. I read that Pye Nixa didn't possess a stereo recorder in 1956/7 but the Introduction and Allegro and the Elergy are both here in stereo.
Despite the Halle Orchestra being nowhere near the fine ensemble that it has become nowadays, all of these performances are outstanding - particularly the Cello Concerto (selected by Andrew Achenbach as his top recording in a survey for Gramophone magazine).
Download from Yandexhttps://yadi.sk/d/iPf3v8HRmgI5_Ahttps://yadi.sk/d/iPf3v8HRmgI5_Ahttps://yadi.sk/d/iPf3v8HRmgI5_A
