2PD15 Van Beinum
conducts Elgar
Cockaigne Overture
Cello Concerto
(Anthony Pini - cello)
Wand of Youth Suites
Elegy
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Eduard van Beinum (conductor)
Recorded in the Kingsway Hall, London
1949/1950 Andrew Achenbach writing in The Gramophone Magazine, September 2006:
...I thoughly enjoyed reaquainting myself with this performance of the Elgar Concerto ... its a selfless, intensely musical reading, notable for the soloist's hard working dedication and Eduard van Beinum's observant support. For once the great slow movement is not pulled around - and how instinctively these artists tap the vein of arching sorrow under those darkening skies.
Cockaigne fairly swaggers with exuberance, the LPO responding with tremendous zest and fresh-faced application for its then chief, yet there's tenderness, poetry and humour aplenty when required. even finer are the Wand of Youth Suites. Van Beinum extracts heaps of vigor, innocence, nostalgia and wit from these captivating miniatures, and I'd place his poetic and strongly characterised accounts at the top of the pile... So if you failed to snap up this valuable compilation first time round, you've no excuse now.
Rob Cowan on Radio 3 CD Review (23 September 1995) said of this performance of the Cockaigne Overture " I was bowled over...it has newsreel type excitement ". He went on to remark that Anthony Pini's performance of the Cello Concerto was "equivalent to the Albert Sammons Violin Concerto, very straightforward, very deep as an introspection, very personal but not over demonstrative. Its extremely moving. "
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