Symphony No 2
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Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis
[ LSO Live / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 20 May 2002
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Colin Davis recording Elgar continues the cycle
"Recorded last year during the LSO's Barbican Elgar cycle, this is a
radical version of the Second Symphony that sweeps away preconceived
notions about the work. Colin Davis jettisons all pretensions to nostalgic
Englishness and anchors it firmly in the European post-Romantic tradition,
exposing in the process veins of neurosis that most conductors choose to
overlook. From the turbulent opening to the exhaustion of the final bars, the whole has a remorseless intensity, containing sections that are as unnerving as anything in Mahler. The headiness of Davis's approach is
matched by the lushness of the LSO's playing and a sumptuous recording."
- The Guardian (May 2002)
