Elgar recording his own music in 1914
The story of sound recording, and reproduction, began in 1877, when the man of a thousand patents, Thomas Edison, invented the phonograph. Although poor by our standards, the results were possible to enjoy. As time went on, Edward Elgar, among others, began to record his own music, and other conductors followed suit including Toscanini, Landon Ronald and Leopold Stokowski.
LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW: “…England’s most famous composer at the time, Edward Elgar, wrote a new cantata for the Birmingham Festival of 1912, The Music Makers.
Elgar was the inheritor of the great choral tradition in the UK, which has received new impulses in it’s long history by for example Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. The Music Makers contains many quotations from Elgar’s earlier works, particularly the Enigma Variations…’’ [RNW-host Hans Haffmans]
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic
Frans Brüggen, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden, conductor
Netherlands Radio Choir
Jane Irwin, mezzo-soprano
Edward Elgar: The Music Makers
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