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Richard Pennycuick <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:35:13 -0700
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Peter Herwitz:

> Can anyone reccomend a stellar performance of Elgar's Enigma Variations?
> I am more a chamber music, piano, and lieder afficionado but I heard
> these Variations recently and was completely enthralled. Thanks in
> advance.

Sir Adrian Boult is your man.  Amazon lists a number of Boult CDs of it,
some of which may be the same performance, but he recorded it a number
of times.  I'd suggest the one which couples it with Holst's The Planets.
I think these were Boult's last recordings of both.

Incidentally, a Naxos CD of Elgar's piano music played by Ashley Wass
includes the Enigma Variations.  I'm a sucker for piano arrangements but
this may also appeal to your primary interests.

Richard Pennycuick

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