Had to play this song for my high school festival. From 1:08-1:30, I can still hear the cries from 2nd violins and violas playing the hooked notes and constant rhythm clappings on Beats 1-3-6 and 1-3-4-6...
LMFAOOO I'm here cause of twoset and I fell in love with the piece. My teacher is looking for a new piece to conduct for us I wanna suggest this. Anyone have Suggestions?
You know what? The second movement conducted by Eddie sounded better with that youth orchestra then this recording. I think it wasn't intentional but I like that better.
Nothing disturbs the graceful amiability of this early work, begun a year before Elgar's marriage in 1889. These "little tunes," as the composer called them, are about as far as one can get from the patriotic fervor of the Pomp and Circumstance marches and the emotional intensity of the larger orchestral works. All three movements, Allegro piacevole, Larghetto and Allegretto, are enchanting: the first liltingly rhythmic, the second a meditation of serene beauty on a melody similar to that of the Lento movement in the Symphony No. 1, the third a genial reworking of first-movement themes. The opening movement, in 6/8 time, is based around an opening theme which is suffused with the feel of English ballad; perhaps some snatch of West-Country melody caught the young composer's ear and worked its way into his creative process. It weaves in and out of minor and major before yielding to the no less serene second theme, bearing Elgar's trademark interval of a seventh leap. This same thumbprint figure can be found in the sensitive following movement, in which there is a constant unfolding of melody rather than contrasting themes. A Tristan-like turn, as well as a phrase which seems to be a quotation from that opera (Elgar was an unashamed admirer of Wagner's music), are worked up to a crest which subsides; overall, though, the music is purged of excessive chromaticism, and any Wagnerisms used in a very different and sensitive context. The closing movement uses a sunny and winsome theme also in 6/8 and returns to the seventh leap of the opening movement, the theme in its final resolution bearing a curious resemblance to the trio of the last Pomp and Circumstance nearly 40 years later. Coincidental? Perhaps, but also indicative that nothing is incongruous within one's own frame of reference. Elgar, himself a violinist, was sensitive to the coloration of the string orchestra, and his touch does not falter throughout a work which he described as being "real stringy." There is no straining after effect and no obvious personal or pictorial associations -- all is pure music as well as pure poetry. Yet anyone who knows the English countryside around Hereford where Elgar lived can hardly fail, especially in the second movement, to be reminded of that peaceful, solitary landscape. The composer made an arrangement of the Serenade for piano duet, though it is now difficult to think of it other than in its original form. (AllMusic)
I'd have just recognized elgar as a composer of 'Salut d'amour'. That was one of my fault in life. It's so beautiful. from now, He is my best composer.
I'm here cause of twoset and I fell in love with the piece. My teacher is looking for a new piece to conduct for us I wanna suggest this. Anyone have Suggestions?
honestly, I don't even know how to describe the feelings of joy that this piece gives me, whenever I listen I can feel myself drifting away to a different world of mine ;) This would probably be my pick if I had to choose my favourite composition by Elgar (there are many other ones though, of course)
Sometimes in a group of highly talented individuals there will be one guy who really shouldn't be there but somehow fell in through the cracks in the selection process. This happened with the Western classical canon and Elgar
