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Don't laugh. The trio is one of the most magnificent tunes ever written, and even such a master as Mahler never matched that exquisitely expert orchestration.
Elgar's vision summed up a whole period in time, and like Mahler, his music is very pertinent to us today.
Don't laugh. The trio is one of the most magnificent tunes ever written, and even such a master as Mahler never matched that exquisitely expert orchestration.
Elgar's vision summed up a whole period in time, and like Mahler, his music is very pertinent to us today.
Ummm...yeah.
"And if we look at the works of J.S. Bach — a benevolent god to which all musicians should offer a prayer to defend themselves against mediocrity... -Debussy
"It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right."
Hailun HU7P 1799 John Broadwood and son square 1800 George Astor London square 1810 Gibson and Davis New York square 1830 John Broadwood and sons square
Aeolian-Hammond BA player organ Conn 652 theater organ 1922 Kotykiewicz two manual harmonium 1880s karn pump organ
Understood. The tune has too many 'graduation' associations for it to be taken seriously in the US.
Elgar has always suffered from the usual suspect British stigma. Empire, mauve decade, self-congratulation, Mahler without the comfortably obvious complications. So hypocritical. The British Empire (which, IMO has little to do with Elgar) even at its height was no match for America's awesome and unforgiving power.
Whatever happens in Egypt, America will make certain that the outcome is to her advantage, screw whatever the people of Egypt want. It's all on Fox News, don't blame me, okay?
Goodness, Jason.. Can't blame Yankeehood for that one. Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance is fine. But it is no Mozart Requiem or any such. As for the people of Egypt, well wish them luck.. They will need it. They are likely moving from one dictatorship to another, America or Her Majesty non-withstanding..
You know James Kreger, Mark, or is this just a random selection?
Random. I linked to this performance that I found because it's awesome.
BTW.....I didn't even check to see if Kreger is the pianist or the cellist.
Wanna tell us about him?
Someone that I know. There's plenty of info to be found about him. I just thought you might've either known or known of him as he's quite a devoted Scriabinist.
"And if we look at the works of J.S. Bach — a benevolent god to which all musicians should offer a prayer to defend themselves against mediocrity... -Debussy
"It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right."
Don't laugh. The trio is one of the most magnificent tunes ever written, and even such a master as Mahler never matched that exquisitely expert orchestration.
Elgar's vision summed up a whole period in time, and like Mahler, his music is very pertinent to us today.
I actually regard Elgar as one of the greatest composers of all. Serenade for strings and sospiri are amazing, and of course the cello concerto!
All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
[about Kreger] Someone that I know. There's plenty of info to be found about him. I just thought you might've either known or known of him as he's quite a devoted Scriabinist.
Interesting -- because we 'might' think of a Scriabinist as someone who like fuzzy stuff and maybe even has a preference for fuzzing things up -- but that performance of the Chopin is sharp as a tack.
A perennially hopeful amateur! Pianos: Boston GP178, Currently attempting: Bach: WTC I/1,5;II/12; Chopin Polonaise in A; Etude 10/5; Brahms Op 118 No 2 Intermezzo in D; Scarlatti Sonata L23.
Part of me really wants to say 'Hot Cross Buns' Seriously though, umm, it varies, if I really had to pick, it'd possibly be the Hammerklavier Sonata. Or Chopin's Ballade in G Minor
Repertoire: Complete: Beethoven- Op 27/2 'Moonlight' Mvt.1 Beethoven - Op 13 'Pathetique' Mvt.2
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