Elgar Symphony No. 2 discography

Edward Elgar's Symphony No 2 was first recorded complete in 1927 by His Master's Voice (later part of the EMI group) conducted by the composer. (Elgar had conducted a truncated version by the old acoustic process in 1924.)^[1] This recording was reissued on LP record and later on compact disc. There was no further recording for seventeen years, until Sir Adrian Boult made the first of his five recordings of the symphony in 1944. Since then there have been many more new recordings, the majority played by British orchestras with seven of them recorded by the London Philharmonic.

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Conductor	Orchestra	Record company	Date
The composer	Royal Albert Hall Orchestra	His Master's Voice	1924
The composer	London Symphony Orchestra	EMI	1927
Sir Adrian Boult	BBC Symphony Orchestra	EMI	1944
Sir John Barbirolli	Hallé Orchestra	EMI	1954
Sir Adrian Boult	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Nixa	1956
Sir Adrian Boult	Scottish National Orchestra	Waverley	1963
Sir Malcolm Sargent	BBC Symphony Orchestra	BBC	1964 (live)
Sir John Barbirolli	Hallé Orchestra	EMI	1964
Sir John Barbirolli	Boston Symphony Orchestra	Music & Arts	1964 (live)
Sir Adrian Boult	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Lyrita	1968
Sir Georg Solti	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Decca	1972
Daniel Barenboim	London Philharmonic Orchestra	CBS	1973
Sir Adrian Boult	London Philharmonic Orchestra	EMI	1976
Sir Alexander Gibson	Scottish National Orchestra	RCA	1977
James Loughran	Hallé Orchestra	Enigma	1979
Yevgeny Svetlanov	USSR Symphony Orchestra	EMI	1979 (live)
Vernon Handley	London Philharmonic Orchestra	EMI (CFP label)	1980
Bernard Haitink	Philharmonia Orchestra	EMI	1984
Bryden Thomson	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Chandos	1986
Giuseppe Sinopoli	Philharmonia Orchestra	DG	1989
Leonard Slatkin	London Philharmonic Orchestra	RCA	1989
Yehudi Menuhin	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Virgin	1991
Jeffrey Tate	London Symphony Orchestra	EMI	1991
Andrew Davis	BBC Symphony Orchestra	Teldec	1992
André Previn	London Symphony Orchestra	Philips	1993
Sir Edward Downes	BBC Philharmonic	Naxos	1994
Sir Charles Mackerras	Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	Decca	1994
Sir Colin Davis	London Symphony Orchestra	LSO Live	2001 (live)
Sir Mark Elder	Hallé Orchestra	Hallé	July 2003
Richard Hickox	BBC National Orchestra of Wales	Chandos	2005
Owain Arwel Hughes	National Youth Orchestra of Wales	Divine Art	2006
Sir Andrew Davis	Philharmonia Orchestra	Signum	2007 (live)
Vladimir Ashkenazy	Sydney Symphony Orchestra	Exton	2008 (live)
Kirill Petrenko	Berliner Philharmoniker	Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall	2009 (live: DVD via subscription)
Tadaaki Otaka	NHK Symphony Orchestra	King International	2009 (live)
Sakari Oramo	Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra	BIS	2013
Daniel Barenboim	Staatskapelle Berlin	Decca	2014 (live)
Vasily Petrenko	Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra	Onyx	2017
Edward Gardner	BBC Symphony Orchestra	Chandos	2018

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List of compositions
Incidental	Diarmuid and Grania (1901) The Crown of India (1911–12) The Starlight Express (1915–16) The Sanguine Fan (1917)
Symphonies	Symphony No. 1 (1907–08) Symphony No. 2 (1909–11) Symphony No. 3 (1932–34; completed by Payne in 1997)
Orchestral	The Wand of Youth (1869–1907) Powick Asylum Music (1879–1884) Sevillana (1884) Froissart (1890) Sursum corda (1894) Serenade for Strings (1894) Three Bavarian Dances (1898) Enigma Variations (1899) Cockaigne Overture (1900–01) Pomp and Circumstance Marches (1901–30) Dream Children (1902) Introduction and Allegro (1904–05) In the South (Alassio) (1904–05) Elegy (1909) Falstaff (1913) Sospiri (1914) Carillon (1914) Polonia (1915) Une voix dans le désert (1915) Le drapeau belge (1917) Nursery Suite (1930) The Severn Suite (1930)
Concertante	Violin Concerto (1901–10) Romance (1910) Cello Concerto (1918–19)
Chamber	Duett for trombone and double bass (1887) Idylle (1883) Salut d'Amour (1888) Chanson de Nuit (1897) Chanson de Matin (1899) La Capricieuse (1891) Violin Sonata (1918) String Quartet (1918) Piano Quintet (1918–19)
Keyboard	Organ Sonata (1898) Concert Allegro (1901)
Choral	The Black Knight (1889–93) From the Bavarian Highlands (1895–96) The Dream of Gerontius (1899–1900) The Kingdom (1901–06) Coronation Ode (1902) The Apostles (1902–03) The Music Makers (1912) The Spirit of England (1915–17)
Vocal	"The Language of Flowers" (1872) "The Self Banished" (1875) "A War Song" (1884) Seven Lieder "Like to the Damask Rose" (1892) "Queen Mary's Song" (1889) "A Song of Autumn" (1892) "The Poet's Life" (1892) "Through the Long Days" (1885) "Rondel" (1894) "The Shepherd's Song" (1892) "Is she not passing fair?" (1886) "As I laye a-thynkynge" (1888) "The Wind at Dawn" (1888) "After" (1900) "A Song of Flight" (1900) Sea Pictures "Sea Slumber Song" "In Haven" "Sabbath Morning at Sea" "Where Corals Lie" "The Swimmer" (1897–99) "Dry those fair, those crystal eyes" (1899) "Always and Everywhere" (1901) "Come, Gentle Night!" (1901) "In the Dawn" (1901) "Speak, Music!" (1901) "There are seven that pull the thread" (1901) "In Moonlight" ((1904) "Follow the Colours" (1907) "Pleading" (1908) "A Child Asleep" (1909) "Oh, soft was the song" (1910) "Was it some Golden Star?" (1910) "Twilight" (1910) "The Chariots of the Lord" (1914) "Fight for Right" (1916) "Inside the Bar" (1917) "The Blue Mountains" (1924) "The Immortal Legions" (1924) Pageant of Empire (1924) "XTC" (1930)
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