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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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In my view, this is the best recorded performance of the symphony so far. Previously, I had agreed with the wide consensus and put Paul Daniel in the top spot, but I think Hickox pips him. Most particuarly there is his handling of the second movement. I have always considered this the weak point of the symphony, unfairly to Elgar who was going to include a harmonic sideslip 'that will knock them all flat'. Unfortunately, no one knows what he intended. Nevertheless, I feel that Richard Hickox makes this movement feel like what it was surely intended to be, a reprise between the intensity of the opening and slow movements, rather than a lapse, and he gives it a sense of substance and rythmical impetus lacking elsewhere, as, indeed, he does to the entire symphony.
As for Pomp and Circumstance No.6, I disagree with the previous comment. I find it utterly convincing. Anthony Payne has said that he sometimes feels as though Elgar is standing at his shoulder. He was certainly doing so here. As for the most magical moment for me, the second entry of the trio tune, I think Elgar's ghost must have whispered in Payne's ear.
As for Pomp and Circumstance No.6, I disagree with the previous comment. I find it utterly convincing. Anthony Payne has said that he sometimes feels as though Elgar is standing at his shoulder. He was certainly doing so here. As for the most magical moment for me, the second entry of the trio tune, I think Elgar's ghost must have whispered in Payne's ear.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Perhaps the Best Elgar 3rd yet.
9 Dec 2008
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Anthony Payne spent almost 30 years trying to patch together Elgar's unfinished Third Symphony, with very impressive results, but results that are still hotly debated (more controversially than the various `performing versions' of Mahler's Tenth) today. It's much more convincing than the (fun) Elgar "Piano Concerto", but for all its quality, the second and third movements don't ring true. No performance will ever silence the debates over whether Payne's version is a success (as opposed to `mere attempt'), but this recording comes awfully close. It does so, because Hickox achieves to make the Symphony sound like ¬echt-Elgar, rather than collections of "Elgarian moments" strung together. The issue is made yet more interesting with the inclusions of two more Payne-elaborations: "So Many True Princesses Who Have Gone" and the Sixth Pomp & Circumstance March. The sound is unbeatable.
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