Five Essential Elgar Recordings - your five?

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  • Pabmusic
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    • May 2011
    • 5537

    Originally posted by gradus View Post
    Apropos pronunciation how about the final var. 'Edu'. His housemaid said that Alice called him 'Edoo'( Eduard?), presumably the way to say it.
    Yes - German pronunciation, with a short E.

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    • Barbirollians
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      • Nov 2010
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      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      ... though you're right about the Barbirolli recording:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i3rNX2mU-s
      Michael Kennedy suggested it was the musical expression of depression or something along those lines and I agree with him - I have told this story before I thought I was handling a friend's suicide until I heard Sospiri again at the end of the original Britidh Composers EMI CD of Elgar 2.

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      • Pabmusic
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        • May 2011
        • 5537

        Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
        Michael Kennedy suggested it was the musical expression of depression or something along those lines and I agree with him - I have told this story before I thought I was handling a friend's suicide until I heard Sospiri again at the end of the original Britidh Composers EMI CD of Elgar 2.
        Elgar wrote two short pieces in 1913 for the new publishing house of Elkin & Co., who specialised in 'light' music, Carissima and Soupir d'Amour. Elkin didn't want Soupir d'Amour because it was too serious for them, so Elgar sent it to Breitkopf & Härtel with the title Sospiri.

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