Has anyone else noticed the quotes from the Dream of Gerontius? 3:39 - Demons theme 3:57 4:09 - 'Dispossessed, Aside thrust' 4:14 - 'Who after expelling their hosts, gave' 4:22 - "Dispossessed'
The first and arguably the greatest dramatic musical setting of poems from Laurence Binyon's The Winnowing Fan. Elgar's dramatic cantata so sadly neglected today especially during this Centenery year.
Benjamin Britten (Aldeburgh Festival Programme Book, 1969): 'For the Fallen has always seemed to me to have in its opening bars a personal tenderness and grief, in the grotesque march an agony of distortion, and in the final sequences a ring of genuine splendour.
I'd never known about this Elgar Oratorio dedicated to the Fallen of the First World War, not until several months ago. Thank you so much for posting! I hope the next generation will listen, appreciate and reflect. What would the WWI generation - British, French, Belgians, Germans, Canadians, Americans - think about the situation in Europe/USA today?
My choir sang this a few years back - 2014, probably. I couldn't stand it. Still can't. Jingoistic tripe (says he, instantly making himself unpopular on this page ;) ). We've also sung the Music Makers, for Remembrance Sunday 2018, which was better, but I just don't find Elgar that rewarding to sing or to listen to. I know people rave about Nimrod, but it drives me nuts. Never seems to go anywhere.
Has anyone else noticed the quotes from the Dream of Gerontius?
3:39 - Demons theme
3:57
4:09 - 'Dispossessed, Aside thrust'
4:14 - 'Who after expelling their hosts, gave'
4:22 - "Dispossessed'
The first and arguably the greatest dramatic musical setting of poems from Laurence Binyon's The Winnowing Fan.
Elgar's dramatic cantata so sadly neglected today especially during this Centenery year.
Benjamin Britten (Aldeburgh Festival Programme Book, 1969): 'For the Fallen has always seemed to me to have in its opening bars a personal tenderness and grief, in the grotesque march an agony of distortion, and in the final sequences a ring of genuine splendour.
Magnificent! Thank you for sharing his.
Wonderful to sing, great, uplifting, sweeping tunes, then terribly sad and pitiful.
Yes - I will be singing it in Salisbury Cathedral on 19th Nov. www.salisburymusicalsociety.org.uk/
"They Shall Not Grow Old"
They didn’t have a chance to... they were sent to the slaughterhouse like cattle fighting the war of corrupt and fat politicians.
I'd never known about this Elgar Oratorio dedicated to the Fallen of the First World War, not until several months ago. Thank you so much for posting! I hope the next generation will listen, appreciate and reflect. What would the WWI generation - British, French, Belgians, Germans, Canadians, Americans - think about the situation in Europe/USA today?
"This squalid mess called history".....WH Auden
Fenomenal.........saludos dede MEXICO...CONDOLENCIAS X DECESO DEL PRINCIPE FELIPE.
Looking forward to performing this in Lincoln Cathedral on November 4th this year....
Apparently Elgar wrote on the score 'aeroplanes stanza III'- which you hear on the music at 9:45. Is this the first depiction of aeroplanes in music?
Beautiful :sad but great!
Maginificent!
Painting by John Singer Sargent - an American who lived his latter years in Britain.
Mustard yellow, the prevailing color - for a dreadful reason.
Words?
+Harry Andruschak Sorry, not for this one online!
+Harry Andruschak Sorry, not for this one online!
Reproduced here: www.classical-music.com/thespiritofengland
Long live England, my homeland 🏴❤
3:31
3:39
4:22
100 %
Alas England, May your people and your brothers on the continent survive. The hostile rulers tell you you have no culture.
My choir sang this a few years back - 2014, probably. I couldn't stand it. Still can't. Jingoistic tripe (says he, instantly making himself unpopular on this page ;) ). We've also sung the Music Makers, for Remembrance Sunday 2018, which was better, but I just don't find Elgar that rewarding to sing or to listen to. I know people rave about Nimrod, but it drives me nuts. Never seems to go anywhere.
Denn das Gemeine geht klanglos zum Orkus hinab.