Conducted by Hubert Clifford , in a programme of music by English composers.
Elgar's Serenade for strings is one of the most important of the composer's early works: it is a little masterpiece of pure melody and beautiful and delicate writing. The work is in three short movements: the slow movement, the gem of the piece, is based on an exquisite theme that anticipates the Elgar of the slow movement of the A flat Symphony.