Elgar (1857-1934)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

... o, I had hoped you had passed on the genes / memes to others in your family, who would be keen to carry on the flame?

In any case I suspect I'm a bit older than you - so it'll probably be you inheriting my Couperin, d' Anglebert, and Froberger scores...

(67 last birthday)

[EdgeleyRob]

Please don't say that. To whom am I to give my 44 Complete Elgar Edition volumes when I'm dead?

Me ?

(59)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I would wish to mention that I hope that, in the decades left before any inheritance is required to be passed on, Alpie gets so much use of the volumes that their condition means that they cannot actually be so bequeathed.


(I dunno - like vultures sometimes!)

[Barbirollians]

I am going to post it here as I cannot remember where it was but thanks to whoever it was who referred to the documentary from 1984 on Elgar on You Tube - rather variable contributors from the excellent Jerrold Northrop Moore and Michael Kennedy to some extraordinarily posh man called Michael de la Noy whose views seemed not to be based on evidence but his own prejudices .

A very young Simon Rattle who appeared to have been having an argument with his razor and good to see some old faces playing away in the CBSO and the late Anthony Rolfe Johnson singing some of Gerontius's music .

Well worth watching.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It was seabright yesterday on the Juanjo Mena/Elgar #2 Thread, Barbs - but certainly deserves a link here, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ap8FyBZFD0

[Richard Tarleton]

Rob C rather gave the game away playing "Cockaigne" as a suitable piece to follow"Die Meistersinger" overture - a straight steal if you ask me. I googled "Elgar and Wagner" out of curiosity (and found this ).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Rob C rather gave the game away playing "Cockaigne" as a suitable piece to follow"Die Meistersinger" overture - a straight steal if you ask me. I googled "Elgar and Wagner" out of curiosity (and found this ).

I didn't expect that!

[cloughie]

I didn't expect that!

Well its all about getting a decent score!

[Serial_Apologist]

I didn't expect that!

Nor did I! I remember as a child first getting into lnstening out for influences in music, and thinking that Elgar must've had an influence on Wagner, because their harmonies sounded similar!!!

[LMcD]

I've just been watching the Petrenko/RLPO Proms performance of the 2nd symphony - well worth the attention of any Elgar enthusiast, I would say. Some of the changes in pace in the 1st movement may jar a bit - Petrenko certainly doesn't hang about! - and the 3rd movement is exciting to the point of breathlessness. The 2nd and 4th movements are both beautifully played and the final few bars are truly magical. I'd be interested to read the views of others on this performance. (THe RLPO seems to have a largish proportion of young or younger players, which is nice to see. Mr. P was NOT wearing a tie (tut!tut! )
Having recently sorted out my CDs, I was surprised to discover how many recordings of the symphonies I've managed to accumulate:
No. 1: LSO/Elgar, BBC SO/Boult, RPO/Previn, Philharmonia/Haitink, LPO/Handley
No. 2: LSO/Previn, Philharmonia/Haitink, LPO/Handley, LSO/Elgar.

[cloughie]

I've just been watching the Petrenko/RLPO Proms performance of the 2nd symphony - well worth the attention of any Elgar enthusiast, I would say. Some of the changes in pace in the 1st movement may jar a bit - Petrenko certainly doesn't hang about! - and the 3rd movement is exciting to the point of breathlessness. The 2nd and 4th movements are both beautifully played and the final few bars are truly magical. I'd be interested to read the views of others on this performance. (THe RLPO seems to have a largish proportion of young or younger players, which is nice to see. Mr. P was NOT wearing a tie (tut!tut! )
Having recently sorted out my CDs, I was surprised to discover how many recordings of the symphonies I've managed to accumulate:
No. 1: LSO/Elgar, BBC SO/Boult, RPO/Previn, Philharmonia/Haitink, LPO/Handley
No. 2: LSO/Previn, Philharmonia/Haitink, LPO/Handley, LSO/Elgar.

...and no Barbirolli, Solti or Thomson!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

...and no Barbirolli, Solti or Thomson!

If you have Elgar's own recording of no. 1, Solti's is superfluous, being a deliberate clone.

[french frank]

I'm not up to speed Alpie, did you mean to close this thread?

[antongould]

I'm not up to speed Alpie, did you mean to close this thread?

Do try to keep up ff he's gone off Elgar it's all Suzy now .......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm not up to speed Alpie, did you mean to close this thread?

I wondered that.