04. - 07. Edward Elgar (orch. by Haydn Wood) - Suite of Four Edward Elgar Songs [10'37]
08. Edward Elgar (orch. by Henry Gheel) - Adieu [2'38]
09. - 11. Edward Elgar - Three Choral Songs^ [14'35]
12. Anthony Collins - Elegy in Memory of Edward Elgar [10'00]
David Owen Norris- piano*, BBC Singers^, BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Lloyd-Jones
Dutton Erpoch CDLX7148 (recorded October 2004; CD issued 2005)
(flac and scans)
Recording venue: No.1 Studio Abbey Road, London
Recording engineer: Simon Rhodes; Producers: Fiona Shelmerdine and Michael Ponder
This issue was made in collaboration with The Elgar Society and all of the music was in world-premiere recordings except for the Haydn Wood orchestral suite which had appeared previously on 78s in a performance conducted by the arranger.
Robert Walker's realisation for performance of sketches, recordings and drafts of manuscripts of music which may well have become a Piano Concerto is perhaps not as successful as Anthony Paine's realisation of the Third Symphony but it works well enough. Anthony Paine himself, provides an orchestration of one of the choral songs 'So Many True Princesses'.
Anthony Collin's heart-felt Elegy is a real find; based on the opening bars of the Third Symphony and composed during the Second World War when the conductor and viola player Anthony Collins was resident in California.
There are excellent informative booklet notes by Robert Walker, David Owen Norris and Lewis Foreman.