Elgar wrote this in 1914 and it was premiered just before the outbreak of the Great War. He seemed to know a way of life was life was ending, and you can hear it in the terrible aching sadness of the piece. Utterly heartbreaking.
@NonInflatable11 жыл бұрын
This melody was dedicated to his great friend, the violinist Billy Reed. We owe Billy Reed a debt of gratitude in that he couldn't bring himself to carry out Elgar's deathbed instruction that the sketches for his Third Symphony should be burnt.
@HerrProfessorDoktor13 жыл бұрын
As both a string orchestra conductor and a composer for strings, as well as a specialist in British music of the lat nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, I rank this as one of the three finest works ever written for string orchestra, with the Ralph Vaughan Williams "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" and the Samuel Barber "Adagio for Strings." Elgar brilliantly placed the instruments in their most expressive ranges in creating a work small in scope yet enormous in its power and passion.
@martincook318 Жыл бұрын
If this Recording is what I think it is then I've got a Mint first Pressing Stereo on His Master's Voice white and Gold and Sir John Barbirolli was as good as Sir Adrian Boult on Sir Edward Edgar's Music and the Recording came out in 1963
@martincook318 Жыл бұрын
That War cost 10 Million lives and even today Reminds of Soldiers both British and German are still being found on the former Battle fields of France and Belgium 104 years after that war was finished
@AsterianMist10 жыл бұрын
one of the best songs we ever played in orchestra....we all put so much emotion into this.
@vasiliskardasis86425 жыл бұрын
Elgar captures the most sensitive and emotional moment of “sighing” A moment we’re all familiar with. A deep longing and some regret. Sospiri offers a landscape of a dedication to love.
@outremmer448 жыл бұрын
this is just wonderfull music,just wish people would just listen and enjoy
@Tiggybel13 жыл бұрын
to me it describes the end to something, anything, but with absolute beauty
@TheVaughan512 жыл бұрын
Possibly the most profound music ever written.
@crossleydd4212 жыл бұрын
The Great War was a tragedy in ways other than the pointless loss of life, ruin and cost on all sides. Friendships forged in the common bond of music were fractured, for example, and never really recovered before Hitler started on the rampage once again!
@meredith21846114 жыл бұрын
What an intensly sad and haunting piece.
@johnwiens8 жыл бұрын
That is just beautiful
@MintChocChip10011 жыл бұрын
OMG this is beautiful, I have to play this for my orchestra
@mikeclarke65377 жыл бұрын
found this rather moving in fact had to wipe away a tear from my eye
@FunVanDriver14 жыл бұрын
Best. song. EVER!
@deccon1614 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite Elgar pieces. Thanks for posting!
@MrJasonfranks11 жыл бұрын
This piece of art is not about what you talk about. Elgar cannot be co-opted in this way.
@eldeano112 жыл бұрын
elgar you music making machine
@Massev687114 жыл бұрын
so beautiful........
@maggieliu41827 жыл бұрын
So Beautiful
@sofiaclassic9115 жыл бұрын
Fantastico
@CaitlinMCViolist11 жыл бұрын
The best part was from 0:00-4:37
@mattjohnson99624 жыл бұрын
How much I care about my brother, trying to get help so he could get better until the end.
@musiclady499 жыл бұрын
This reminds me a bit of John Barry's music for "Dances With Wolves". I wonder if Elgar was his inspiration. Elgar wrote some beautiful music!
@meredith2184617 жыл бұрын
Please dont associate Elgar with John Barry!
@Wavewolfaroha13 жыл бұрын
@HerrProfessorDoktor Couldn't agree more, as a violist!
@ejkosasih15 жыл бұрын
orchestra/conductior?
@MrArdelco197013 жыл бұрын
POetry
@aliahmadzade52929 жыл бұрын
ok
@MrJasonfranks11 жыл бұрын
Rubbish. Listen. At 3.49+ he finds resolution. How's that life(-style) ending?