Elegant Elgar's legacy revived for posterity with panache; Christopher Morley on a good year for the classics CLASSICAL CDS OF THE YEAR.

The Birmingham Post (England) | December 19, 1998| | Copyright

1 ELGAR/ PAYNE Symphony no.3 (NMC D053): In a sense we have been awaiting this record since 1934, the year Elgar died leaving behind a mass of sketches for his unfinished BBC-commissioned Third Symphony. Having won round the composer's doubting family, A nthony Payne immersed himself so much in Elgar's own mind-set that his elaboration and completion of those scraps have proved a triumph of skill, dedication and empathy. Released to coincide with the work's public premiere last February, this account fro m an inspired Andrew Davis and BBC Symphony Orchestra just has to be ...

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