Sir Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 3 (Sketches elaborated by Anthony Payne) - Sir Colin Davis / London Symphony Orchestra
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Performer: Sir Colin DavisEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-08-13
Music Label: Lso Live UK
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Free Music Review: Makes the strongest case for a problematic work
Hit: 3 Stars
Anthony Payne's "elaboration" of Elgar's sketches for an uncompleted Third Symphony may have yielded a best-seller (in the recording conducted by Andrew Davis) and caroling among British reviewers, but the fact remains that more so than, say, any of the "completions" of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, this inevitably falls short of what the original composer must have intended. Payne (or is it Elgar?) all too often substitutes repetition for genuine development--whether due to a lack of available material to flesh out, I don't know. With that said, there's enough of interest to justify Payne's efforts to bring this collection of sketches to life.
In this LSO Live recording, the better-known conductor-knight with the surname Davis--Sir Colin--succceeds to a remarkable degree in overcoming the inherent problems of this score (which might be compared to Elgar's First and Second Symphonies the way "Godfather Part III" compares to its Oscar-winning siblings). He imposes structural integrity and strength upon a work that can all too easily come across as ramshackle. He does not deliver as idiomatic a sound-picture as does Andrew Davis, but it can be argued that 20-plus years after his Second Symphony, Elgar was trying for a more "modern" feel and so considerations of maintaining an Elgarian idiom are perhaps less relevant here. Like other LSO Live releases, the recording is constrained and lacking in sumptuousness, but the performance surmounts this shortcoming.
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