Jeffrey Tate's Elgar is not for most people because, for most people, Elgar is the musical equivalent of Rudyard Kipling: an imperialist composer who made music of the English Empire at the height of its pomp and power, a majestic composer whose two symphonies are grandiose monuments to noble ambition and righteous aspirations, a glorious composer whose melodies are hymns, whose rhythms are marches, whose colors are resplendent, and whose purpose in life was to preach the gospel of English imperialism.For Jeffrey Tate, ...
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Jeffrey Tate's Elgar is not for most people because, for most people, Elgar is the musical equivalent of Rudyard Kipling: an imperialist composer who made music of the English Empire at the height of its pomp and power, a majestic composer whose two symphonies are grandiose monuments to noble ambition and righteous aspirations, a glorious composer whose melodies are hymns, whose rhythms are marches, whose colors are resplendent, and whose purpose in life was to preach the gospel of English imperialism.For Jeffrey Tate, Elgar was a passionate and private composer, a composer whose music is full of doubt as well as confidence and whose two symphonies are deeply felt and intimately emotional works that have little or nothing to do with imperial England. As embodied in these two recordings with the London Symphony from 1991 and 1992, Tate's Elgar is massively impressive and personally anguished. In Tate's interpretation of the Symphony No. 1, Elgar's initial nobilmente e semplice theme is battered...
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Add this copy of Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2 / Cockaigne Overture / Sospiri to cart. $9.00, fair condition, Sold by Goodwill of Greater Milwaukee rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milwaukee, WI, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by EMI.
Add this copy of Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2 / Cockaigne Overture / Sospiri to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by EMI Classics.
