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There are days when only Elgar will do

There are days when only Elgar will do

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

There are days when only Elgar will do. When the skies are low and the politics grim, a wash of Elgarian orchestral colour relieves existential gloom like no other remedy. The first symphony delivers pull-your-socks-up bluster and the second a subtler encouragement. Elgar always does it for me.

This extraordinary double-album…

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