Achim Breiling wrote: >If this work is now Elgar with a bit of Payne or Payne with a bit of >Elgar its nevertheless a very nice piece of music and for me (not being an >expert on Elgar) it sounds very much like Elgar. Maybe its not as dramatic >or bombastic as Elgars previous symphonies Bombastic is the last word I would use about Elgar's Symphonies. Had to say that. >By the way I think I read somewhere that Payne did some changes in the >score for this recording (compared to the older one on NMC). Is this >true? I think so but I suspect the differences are quite small. The new recording under Paul Daniel on Naxos is now, I think, the one to have. Tony Duggan, England