Delius/ Elgar/ Sinfonia of London - Music for Strings Release:Music for Strings Chandos cello and voice

cello and voice

it bears witness to his interest in a style that he defined as 'baroque in it's monumentality'

and it's players will always revere and cherish his memory

sometimes hallucinogenic stuff that regularly makes nods to the Beat work he grew up on-has sonic power

Delius/ Elgar/ Sinfonia of London - Music for Strings Release:Music for Strings Chandos cello and voiceThis keenly anticipated album from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson features two of the greatest British works for string orchestra: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro. Elgar's ground breaking work, commissioned for the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra and premired in 1905, is inspired by the baroque concerto grosso, and features a solo string quartet contrasted with