Ashkenazy: Elgar Symphony No. 1

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts Elgar's First Symphony. Instantly a triumph, following the symphony's première a review in the 1908 Daily Mail proclaimed: 'It is quite plain that here we have perhaps the finest masterpeice of its type that ever came form the pen of an English composer'. Alongside, Mozart's spritely Concertante for Violin and Viola is a master of invention, full of glorious melodies which beautifully weave their way from one soloist to the next.