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During the last year of his life, Elgar amassed some 130 pages of sketches for a projected Third Symphony. Some sections were orchestrated, including the work's gripping first 17 bars, while other ideas survived in various states of development. British composer Anthony Payne has taken these sketches and created a framework so that Elgar's final thoughts can be heard in a viable context. Payne makes clear that he is dealing not with probabilities but possibilities. Through a combination of careful detective work, educated guessing, and recomposing when necessary, Payne illuminates the potential of Elgar's ideas, and ingenuously sublimates his creative contributions to Elgar's lofty, upholstered idiom. The performance, too, is a labor of love and painstaking preparation, and should be heard by all Elgarians. --Jed Distler
