YouTube - Elgar Cello Concerto 3rd mov. Was listening to Classic FM the other day, as I do. Heard this Cello Concerto, 3rd movement by Elgar (i like his work mostly) He suffered with depression, as you can tell in this piece. He wrote it whilst sat in the garden of his rented cottage in Sussex during the first world war. Why did you write it with such melanocholy? - well apparently it was because he could hear the guns on the front line from his garden
interesting Capt Bill i would imagine with the wind in the right direction and a big push the sound would travel
Elgar on The Great War: "Concerning the war I say nothing - the only thing that wrings my heart & soul is the thought of the horses - oh! my beloved animals - the men - and women can go to hell - but my horses; - I walk round & round this room cursing God for allowing dumb brutes to be tortured - let Him kill his human beings but how CAN HE? Oh, my horses."
Not if its a Saturday night in a Liverpool pub after the 3:45 Aintree has sorted out the mares from the foals at Beechers Brooke ...its on topic Beechers was a captain.
Excellent, I wasn't aware of this one!! Fine music to read and smoke a pipev by, loved it But then I'm the one who can actually listen to Wagner's Ring der Nibelungen without falling asleep (which is a polite way to say some of you are a bunch of phillistines!)
Beathovens ninth the choral symphony...better than...well great anywhere... Phill E. Stein was a greek anyway...they dont do classical.
Capt Bill, you also should try the Piano Quintet, another minor key work, written a little before the Cello Concerto at the Sussex cottage in 1918. Naxos do it at a decent price. (depressing enough for Saturday night, when you've spent most of the day scraping wallpaper off walls)
Excellent, I wasn't aware of this one!! Fine music to read and smoke a pipev by, loved it But then I'm the one who can actually listen to Wagner's Ring der Nibelungen without falling asleep (which is a polite way to say some of you are a bunch of phillistines!) he he - i fall asleep to the 1812 overture (the lull before the battle that is)
I suppose you'll wake up to "the sound of the guns" When I was in Finland the classical radio people were so, what, snotty that all texts were spoken in Latin, even the news. We were in the 80s before the Wall fell, in the middle of the SS-20 / GLCM crisis, so hearing about MIRVs defined in Latin was something out of the ordinary.
