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Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works

Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

CDA68101

Two much-loved orchestral favourites representing the summit of Elgar’s maturity are coupled with three of the lesser-known wartime works, here receiving their first recordings with the original French texts. Kate Royal is the soprano soloist in Une voix dans le désert, a hauntingly tender masterpiece which every Elgarian should know.

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