Sakari Oramo, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2, Sospiri, Elegy (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 63:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1879 | Recorded: 2011, 2012
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 63:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1879 | Recorded: 2011, 2012
The main work on the present disc is the Second Symphony – a darkly hued, powerful work lasting almost an hour. The composer apparently planned to dedicate it to King Edward VII as ‘a loyal tribute’, but the monarch’s sudden death in May 1910, led to the symphony being inscribed instead to his memory. Composed during the same years as the symphony, the two companion pieces on the disc also have a melancholy tinge: Elegy for strings, and Sospiri (‘sighs’) for strings, harp and organ.