LSO Live LS 0017

Elgar: Symphony No. 1 – London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

The London Symphony Orchestra has a long and illustrious association with Elgar and his music. He conducted the Orchestra in 1904, the year in which it was founded, and was later to become its Principal Conductor. Over the years the late Sir Colin Davis established an unrivalled reputation in Elgar’s music.

‘Sir Colin Davis’s live recordings with the LSO are rapidly establishing themselves as benchmarks of the catalogue... This new disc is scarcely less essential’

The Independent

‘A marvellously fresh interpretation... performed here with rare, unsentimental vigour’

The Observer

‘Startlingly daring but what emerges is a totally unified view’

***** The Guardian

‘The greatest living Elgarian. There is a breadth and structural completeness about it that does justice to Elgar’s vision... sustained tonally and technically as only the LSO can’

The Financial Times

‘The LSO’s superb musicians play like men and women possessed’

The Sunday Times

Sir Colin Davis and the LSO recorded Elgar’s symphonies live at a series of acclaimed concerts at the Barbican during Autumn 2001. The LSO has a long and illustrious association with Elgar and his music. He conducted the LSO in 1904, the year it was founded, and was later to become its Principal Conductor. Over recent years Sir Colin Davis, the current Principal Conductor, has established an unrivalled reputation in Elgar’s music.