Elgar Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto. Enigma variations, Op. 36.
***Ph. Dig. 416 354-2. (i) Julian Lloyd Webber;
RPO, Menuhin.
The Philips coupling of the Cello concerto and the Enigma variations, the two most popular of Elgar’s big orchestral works, featuring two artists inseparably associated with Elgar’s music, made the disc an immediate bestseller, and rightly so. These are both warmly expressive and unusually faithful readings, the more satisfying for fidelity to the score, and Julian Lloyd Webber in his playing has never sounded warmer or more relaxed on record, well focused in the stereo spectrum.’
