4PD15 Elgar's Falstaff
On this disc Anthony Collins conducts performances of Elgar's symphonic study Falstaff [Listen], Introduction and Allegro for Strings [Listen] and the Serenade for Strings [Listen], whilst Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts three marches, Pomp and Circumstance Nos 1 [Listen] and 4 [Listen] and Imperial March[Listen].
"Professional to his fingertips, Collins presides over a beautifully prepared, shrewdly paced traversal. He secures a commendably ebullient response from the LSO, and my only nagging misgiving surrounds an ever so slight want of temperament; the seam of vulnerability that surfaces with a vengeance in th epilogue is not readily quarried here. Apart from an isolated patch of pre-echo Beulah's painstaking restoration of Decca's strikingly full-bodied and crisp "ffrr" tapes must be deemed a conspicuous sucess." Andrew Achenbach Grampohone November 2007
"Collins' instinct for the dramatic from his experience in films stands him in excellent stead in Falstaff. This is a very good version indeed, worthy to stand alongside the fine accounts by Tate and Rattle. " Elgar Society Journal Nov. 1995.
"Few match Collins in the way his timing helps you visualize the story behind each incident. This is an invaluable offering to remind us of the mastery of a conductor whose achievement was never fully appreciated in this country in his lifetime. " Gramophone Feb 1996.
Jonathan Swain on CD Review BBC Radio Three 10 November 2007 said:
On Anthony Collins conducting Falstaff: "A great many details here tell of Collins the film composer. They can be very subtle though never unsubtle. The art is knowing how far to go."..."everything superbly animated. It leaps out at you." |
Although no longrer available as a compact disc this album can be downlaoded for only GBP 7.99 at [iTunes]
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