It is my favorite part. I wish there were more of those outstanding three minutes of music. I wonder why Elgar only included that part for about 3 minutes?
I didn't know this piece when I recently received it as excerpts for my next orchestral audition. I was instantly afraid Elgar tried to pull a pre-Copland Hoedown. Very pleasantly relieved to find he meant Italy!
I had the pleasure of playing this in a regional high school orchestra festival. It's a great piece.
I seem to find comments of yours on everything I love!
only in america where regional high school orchestras can play alpine symphony lol
I imagine that the viola solo is played by Rusen Gunes........should be given a mention here.....
Strauss Don Juan vibes much?
6:48ff This bit is so cool
It is my favorite part. I wish there were more of those outstanding three minutes of music. I wonder why Elgar only included that part for about 3 minutes?
@@joysnipes1796 20 minutes of that would not have been structurally effective in the slightest. What we have is a masterpiece.
@@joysnipes1796 Aside from obvious structural reasons, there is also a narrative reason. This is a reminisence to the glory of the Roman Empire.
excelent !
At 6:27 it reminds me of a soundtrack music from a movie
The timpani at 8:28 sounds so nice
That's because film composers a few decades after this era borrowed heavily from this type of soundworld.
Korngold?
Elgar at his most Straussian.
Even as a European, I instantly thought this was about the US South
I didn't know this piece when I recently received it as excerpts for my next orchestral audition. I was instantly afraid Elgar tried to pull a pre-Copland Hoedown. Very pleasantly relieved to find he meant Italy!
could use more trombone blasting in the beginning
The English Wagner
and of course the english brahms, going by the development of material
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