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Symphony No 1, Intro and Allegro (Barbirolli, Halle Orch.) [Original recording remastered]

~ Edward Elgar (Artist)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (14 Oct 2002)
  • SPARS Code: A-D
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: BBC Legends
  • ASIN: B00006L3H9
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 171,565 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Introduction And Allegro, Op.47 For String Quartet And String Orchestra
2. I. Andante. Nobilmente E Semplice - Allegro
3. II. Allegro Molto
4. III. Adagio
5. IV. Lento - Allegro
On this CD:
  1. Symphony No. 1 in A flat
    Composed by Sir Edward Elgar
    Performed by Hallé Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

  2. Introduction and Allegro
    Composed by Sir Edward Elgar
    Performed by Hallé Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

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5.0 out of 5 stars Barbirolli's Farewell, 21 Oct 2002
By Steve (Huddersfield, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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These two items are taken from the last recorded concert of Barbirolli. A few days later, and he was dead; he was very ill even at the rehearsals for this concert (recorded at the King's Lynn Festival in 1970). Elgar was close to Sir John's heart from his earliest days, and both the Symphony and the Introduction and Allegro were recorded by him a number of times, and performed in concert many times more.

Also he had had a very long and fruitful (legendary?) relationship with the Halle orchestra. So here we have a team of musicians, under a beloved conductor, all with this music in their bones. As you would expect, there is a warmth here and a love, rarely heard. The Introduction and Allegro is quite different from any of his other recordings of this piece; to me there is a palpable sense of sadness-not at all what you hear in the earlier versions. And the Symphony-well, in places I felt tears of sadness: probably 'Glorious John' knew he hadn't much time left and this performance is like a bittersweet farewell.

These recordings have previously been available on unofficial discs; there is no comparison-the BBC has provided here an excellent stereo recording, well remastered.

A great tribute to England's greatest conductor.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant farewell to the great JB, 26 Dec 2003
I can't understand why it has taken so long for the BBC to release this live recording of the great "JB", the last time he stood in front of any orchestra, especially his beloved Halle and conducting this great Elgar symphony, before he went back to London to die a few days later.
The atmosphere on the CD is very emotional especially as the audience settles down as the march theme at the beginning of the first movement gets underway and expands into the body of the main body this great movement. Probably the best 12 minutes of this CD is the Adagio that "JB" gets the Halle to play with his usual pace, emotion and focus. Barbirolli always said that the last peice of music he would want to hear was the coda from the last movement of Elgar's second symphony, however, this is maybe just as satisfying for him as it is for me.

Thank you for the many hours of wonderful and memorable pleasure you've given me over the years Sir John.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT PERFORMANCE UNIQUELY TINGED WITH SADNESS, 29 Mar 2007
By Klingsor Tristan (Suffolk) - See all my reviews
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Does the knowledge that Sir John was to die within a few days of this public performance at the 1970 King's Lynn Festival colour our view of it? Did he conduct that day sub specie mortis, expecting this to be his final performance? It is easy to read things into these two performances with the benefit of hindsight that may not really be there.

Nevertheless, it is hard not to hear an autumnal glow, a touch of sadness and regret, even in the amazingly virile leaping lines of the Allegro in the Introduction & Allegro that were not present in his famous recording with the Sinfonia of London strings.

And the Symphony does seem to provide us with an interpretation even more profound than his commercial recordings of a work that he loved dearly throughout his life. There is an intensity to the slow movement that is second to none. This is bred from an orchestra (JB's own Halle) and conductor who knew each other and their interpretation of this work intimately, who had years of mutual experience of the work behind them. This allows for a flexibility that is necessarily rare - those little relaxations or heightening of tension in tempi, those moments when it's hard to tell if the conductor is reacting to a particularly felicitous turn of phrase from a soloist or vice versa. It is there from the very first moments of the work when, even as the audience is still settling down, the orchestra creeps in with the pp drum roll and the initial heavy tread of the motto theme. It is still there at the climax of the Finale when even Sir John can surely never have achieved quite the same passion as the orchestra positively overflows and cascades colour over the same motto theme.

Tinged with sadness over the sad events of the next few days though it may be, this remains - objectively as well as emotionally - a great performance of this landmark symphony that held a very special place in Barbirolli's heart. I don't think he would have been sorry that this was the work that turned out to be the last he would conduct - nor that his beloved Halle produced such a magnificent performance of it.
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