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The best classical CDs and DVDs of 2021 so far, from Simon Rattle to Clare Hammond
In this regularly updated guide, our critic recommends the best classical and opera releases of the year – and suggests a few to avoid
15 March 2021 • 2:55pm
In tune: our classical critic s guide to 2021
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LSO, Simon Rattle, Renaud Capuçon, and Stephen Hough: Elgar Violin Concerto / Violin Sonata
★★★★☆
Intimacy and grandeur seem the least likely bedfellows, but it’s precisely that unlikely conjunction that gives Elgar’s music its unique flavour. So often in his music a huge public utterance girded with brass and military rhythms seems to melt away before our very ears, and we suddenly find ourselves in a twilight landscape of regret and nostalgia.
Mark ElderIl Paria★★★★☆Dawn UpshawNarrow Sea★★★☆☆In the 192 years since the premiere of Donizetti’s Il Paria (The Pariah) this opera has almost become a pariah itself; a repertory outcast, barely