Lso/Lso Chorus - Edward Elgar: The Black Knight, Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands

Richard Hickox brought these two neglected works into the record catalogue to critical acclaim. In an Editor�s Choice review in 1996 � the year of its release � Gramophone stated: �Elgar completed The Black Knight in 1893 and it provided him with his first big success. The text tells of a sinister, unnamed �Prince of mighty sway�, whose appearance at the King�s court during the feast of Pentecost has disastrous consequences. Elgar�s score boasts much attractive invention, some of it strikingly eloquent and prescient of greater offerings to come. The choral writing is always effective, the orchestration already vivid and