And I'm not British at All -
For many of us the music of Edward Elgar
is instantly recognizable Characteristic
of the confident Edwardian age he lived
in and part of the national heritage
just like the man But we are the victims
of one of the wiliest image consultants
of the last century
Elgar himself He particularly enjoyed
bamboozling posterity As a contemporary
of Puccini and Mahler Elgar wrote music
that even today challenges our
preconceptions
And it doesn't feel really like Elgar's
world it really it's visceral and comes
right out of the guts of the music
although his home life seemed a model of
decorum this man of many moods was
always falling in love and unflinching
new evidence from one of the women who
knew him best reveals what sort of man
he was
gosh well that is quite a letter in his
lifetime he was known for being complex
and difficult His friends realized he
deliberately hid himself behind a mask
of respectability but they have now gone
and as the years have passed it's the
mask that survived the real Elgar is
only now being recovered His eyes were
restlessly moving all the time up and
down left and right that restless energy
and for a moment I have this absolutely
uncanny feeling that that at last I sort of
knew him, and what he would have been
like
Ages ago when I was a kid I remember an
ad on the TV that was for tomato sauce
ketchup something in
Venezuela. Our
headmaster would play records to us so in
three or four minute chunks he played us
the Dream of Gerontius on Saturday
mornings before our cornflakes
He really clicked with me when I
remember distinctly a specific
performance of the Enigma Variations in
the Albert Hall I don't think I had a
recording at home but there was a
recording at school conducted by
Toscanini I tremble to think how many
times I've heard it it's always fresh
Absolutely remember getting to the
climax the glimpse of God and of course
that is such an unusual moment in music
that's left an indelible mark
The bottle like that and that sauce
coming down, down, down, and when it was
reaching the food whatever it was chips
probably Pomp and Circumstance March
number one was sounding
that was the heroic thing
finally the ketchup got into the chip
it may have become a rousing patriotic
tune but Land of Hope and Glory began
life without any words simply as the
middle section of an orchestral March
Like much of Elgar’s music if you do
what he wanted and imagine you've never
heard it before it's not quite what it
seems It's not not pretentious it’s not
pompous it's just wonderfully open and
sincere and that's what totally embraces
me and I'm not even British at all
is instantly recognizable Characteristic
of the confident Edwardian age he lived
in and part of the national heritage
just like the man But we are the victims
of one of the wiliest image consultants
of the last century
Elgar himself He particularly enjoyed
bamboozling posterity As a contemporary
of Puccini and Mahler Elgar wrote music
that even today challenges our
preconceptions
And it doesn't feel really like Elgar's
world it really it's visceral and comes
right out of the guts of the music
although his home life seemed a model of
decorum this man of many moods was
always falling in love and unflinching
new evidence from one of the women who
knew him best reveals what sort of man
he was
gosh well that is quite a letter in his
lifetime he was known for being complex
and difficult His friends realized he
deliberately hid himself behind a mask
of respectability but they have now gone
and as the years have passed it's the
mask that survived the real Elgar is
only now being recovered His eyes were
restlessly moving all the time up and
down left and right that restless energy
and for a moment I have this absolutely
uncanny feeling that that at last I sort of
knew him, and what he would have been
like
Ages ago when I was a kid I remember an
ad on the TV that was for tomato sauce
ketchup something in
Venezuela. Our
headmaster would play records to us so in
three or four minute chunks he played us
the Dream of Gerontius on Saturday
mornings before our cornflakes
He really clicked with me when I
remember distinctly a specific
performance of the Enigma Variations in
the Albert Hall I don't think I had a
recording at home but there was a
recording at school conducted by
Toscanini I tremble to think how many
times I've heard it it's always fresh
Absolutely remember getting to the
climax the glimpse of God and of course
that is such an unusual moment in music
that's left an indelible mark
The bottle like that and that sauce
coming down, down, down, and when it was
reaching the food whatever it was chips
probably Pomp and Circumstance March
number one was sounding
that was the heroic thing
finally the ketchup got into the chip
it may have become a rousing patriotic
tune but Land of Hope and Glory began
life without any words simply as the
middle section of an orchestral March
Like much of Elgar’s music if you do
what he wanted and imagine you've never
heard it before it's not quite what it
seems It's not not pretentious it’s not
pompous it's just wonderfully open and
sincere and that's what totally embraces
me and I'm not even British at all
Edad recomendada: 21 años
Creada por
Martin Smith
Reino Unido
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