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Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings???

Posted by Benjamin Daniell on December 24, 2008, 10:57 am
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I have thoroughly digested Elgar's Symphonies, Concerti and miscellaneous Orchestral works, but I am unsure of how to best discographically acquire the Chamber masterpieces (allowing for couplings, etc.) - i.e. the String Quartet, Piano Quintet and Violin Sonata.

Does anyone have any suggestions for reference recordings? So far, I've been equally convinced of the Naxos (Maggini/Donohoe) and EMI (with the Allegri), and the other EMI (Vellinger/Boyd) by reading Amazon user reviews; I've not read much about the Violin Sonata apart from Hope on Nimbus.

I'd be interested in any advice or comments from Elgarians the world over, if you can spare the time. Is there a consensus concerning these works?

Many thanks.

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Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - Benjamin Daniell December 24, 2008, 10:57 am
- Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - Len Mullenger December 24, 2008, 12:33 pm
- Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - John Drexel January 29, 2009, 11:08 pm
  - Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - Benjamin Daniell January 30, 2009, 1:10 am
    - Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - John Drexel January 31, 2009, 7:09 pm
      - Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - Benjamin Daniell March 30, 2009, 1:02 pm
        
        Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - chris howell March 30, 2009, 3:18 pm
        
        Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - Barry Coward April 9, 2009, 12:42 pm
        
        Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - John Drexel March 30, 2009, 9:03 pm
- Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - John Drexel March 30, 2009, 9:40 pm
  - Re: Elgar's Chamber Music: definitive recordings??? - Peter April 1, 2009, 4:25 pm
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