Elgar: "In the South (Alassio)" Overture, Op. 50 (with Score)

[@Musicrafter12]

I had the pleasure of playing this in a regional high school orchestra festival. It's a great piece.

[@ZJStrudwick]

I seem to find comments of yours on everything I love!

[@PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS]

only in america where regional high school orchestras can play alpine symphony lol

[@lubiskat]

I imagine that the viola solo is played by Rusen Gunes........should be given a mention here.....

[@vaclavmiller8032]

6:48ff This bit is so cool

[@joysnipes1796]

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?

[@vaclavmiller8032]

@@joysnipes1796 20 minutes of that would not have been structurally effective in the slightest. What we have is a masterpiece.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@joysnipes1796 Aside from obvious structural reasons, there is also a narrative reason. This is a reminisence to the glory of the Roman Empire.

[@rubenmolino1480]

excelent !

[@joshscores3360]

Strauss Don Juan vibes much?

[@breyannalewis9522]

At 6:27 it reminds me of a soundtrack music from a movie

[@breyannalewis9522]

The timpani at 8:28 sounds so nice

[@maxgregorycompositions6216]

That's because film composers a few decades after this era borrowed heavily from this type of soundworld.

[@pnocella]

Korngold?

[@NovaMenno]

Even as a European, I instantly thought this was about the US South

[@SarkaBlahnik]

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!

[@maxgregorycompositions6216]

Elgar at his most Straussian.

[@TheTimeBeing]

14:07

[@derekputnam3439]

could use more trombone blasting in the beginning

[@judechandler5102]

0:23

[@geoffthedonkey2295]

The English Wagner

[@PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS]

and of course the english brahms, going by the development of material