Has Ed Gardner recorded the Apostles. i dont think he has? Be worth getting as the excerpt, with the schofar, was very well played and the interpretation spot on.
"Elgar: the Man behind the Mask" on BBC4
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Originally posted by Oliver View PostI understand that Americans find Vaughan Williams more accessible than Elgar. All those fifths and open textures; perhaps it reminds them of Copland?
Vaughan Williams tends to be Über English to the Americans, at least when they can spell his name correctly, which is often a disaster on American message boards.
Whatever. Let the Americans have their place in the sun, and any country which has produced a Gershwin is cause for major celebration. I rate him very highly -I adore his music- what a tragedy he left us so young. Can you imagine what he might have given us had he lived longer?
No British composer at the time could match Gershwin for sheer spontaneity of music making. IMO of course.
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Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostThat part-song that Elgar wrote late in his ife, what was it called, around 1928? Very moviong. Not like Elgar at all. Sparse!
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Originally posted by Pabmusic View PostI think it was Owls, with its repeated calls of "nothing". Yes it is sparse in effect, and it was in the Bridcut film, but it's from the Four Part-Songs, op. 53, which were published in 1907.
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Sospiri did it for me ....
i felt this programme did its worthy best to make us nudge Elgar a fair bit higher in our estimation, and i am in complete agreement with that .... i suspect his greatness is masked by being British [we don't do greatness eh]According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View PostSospiri did it for me ....
i felt this programme did its worthy best to make us nudge Elgar a fair bit higher in our estimation, and i am in complete agreement with that .... i suspect his greatness is masked by being British [we don't do greatness eh]
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Richard Tarleton
Looking at all those photos and images especially in later years, I just can't help thinking about that moustache, and soup, and, erm, osculatory interference. I wonder what the two Alices and that other woman really thought....
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I liked the device of showing the conductors and commentators listening and reacting to the music, it establishes a rapport with this audience member that talking heads can't always match. By the way, Michael Kennedy's seemed to possess an enviable collection of original letters from Elgar; not so easy to come by.
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostLooking at all those photos and images especially in later years, I just can't help thinking about that moustache, and soup, and, erm, osculatory interference. I wonder what the two Alices and that other woman really thought....
However what I found absolutely fascinating about the footage of EE was the flickering mobility of his eyes - an absolute revelation of the man, in comparison with the static, marmoreal photographs."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View PostSospiri did it for me ....
i felt this programme did its worthy best to make us nudge Elgar a fair bit higher in our estimation, and i am in complete agreement with that .... i suspect his greatness is masked by being British [we don't do greatness eh]Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750
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