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Helen Wallace compares recordings of Elgar’s cello concerto and makes a recommendation: Top recommendation - only available as a download or as a collected edition: Greatest Cello Concertos (Blue Boxes) BACH, C P E; BRITTEN; BRUCH; DUTILLEUX; DVORAK; ELGAR; HAYDN; KERNIS; MIASKOVSKY; PART; PROKOFIEV; SCHUMANN; SHOSTAKOVICH; TCHAIKOVSKY. Truls Mork (cello), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) WARNER CLASSICS 6158102 (9CD budget) Recommendation on single disc: ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85 LUTOSLAWSKI: Cello Concerto Pieter Wispelwey (cello), The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen (conductor) CHANNEL CCS12998 (CD) Historic recommendation on single disc: Elgar: Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures & Cockaigne Overture ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op. 40 'In London Town'; Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85; Sea Pictures Op. 37 Jacqueline du Pre (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor) EMI 6230752 (CD mid-price) Historic recommendation as a collected edition: Jacqueline du Pre: The Complete EMI Recordings BACH; BEETHOVEN; BOCCHERINI; BRAHMS; BRITTEN; BRUCH; CHOPIN; COUPERIN, F; DELIUS; DVORAK; ELGAR; FALLA; FAURE; FRANCK, C; HANDEL; HAYDN; LALO; MENDELSSOHN; MONN; PARADIS; SAINT-SAENS; SCHUMANN; STRAUSS, R; TCHAIKOVSKY. Jacqueline du Pre (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor) EMI 0919342 (17CD budget)