Elgar Symphony No 2 1st mvt BBC SO Sir Adrian Boult

This is the first movement: Allegro vivace e nobilmente in the classic 1944 recording made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.

The greatest recording ever made of Elgars Second Symphony. One of my Desert Island Discs choices Rob Cowan BBC Radio 3 16 October 2005

Andrew Achenbach writes of the Elgar Second Symphony in The Gramophone for May 2006 :
This is a majestic rendering and arguably the most penetrating Elgar Second ever committed to disc.