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Work: Sospiri for string orchestra and harp, Op.70

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ComposerElgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)
PeriodRomantic
Year1914
Work typeOrchestral
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OxfordThe Lark Ascending

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Eccles, Vivaldi, Vaughan Williams, Beach, Pirotti, Elgar
English Chamber Orchestra; Harriet Mackenzie

OxfordThomas Adès conducts

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Elgar, Adès, Kurtág
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès; Alexandru-Mihai (Sascha) Bota

LondonA Terrible Beauty – English String Music, from 1900 to 1939

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Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Bridge, Tippett
Rachael Montesino Young; London Virtuosi Ensemble; George Hlawiczka
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Beth Taylor’s commanding Sea Pictures with the London Philharmonic

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The dream team of Edward Gardner and the LPO are joined by Beth Taylor for a glorious evening of Elgar at the Royal Festival Hall. 
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Anthony Marwood leads the Scottish Chamber Orchestra forwards in time

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A concept album of a programme which might not quite have cohered, but whose components were never less than lovely.
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Lifelessness, extremes and emotional weight in conflicted CBSO evening

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the CBSO give a flat rendition of Haydn in an otherwise emotionally-conflicted, moving evening featuring Weinberg, Elgar and Thomas Adès.
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