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Edward Elgar

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 3

    Oct 23rd, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalTimeMachine, #ClassicsaDay, Edward Elgar, George Gerswhin, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Twitter

    For the month of October, the Classics a Day team turned nostalgic. Classical musicians have been making recordings since the 1890s. So we all have over 130 years of documented performance practices. And we can judge first-hand the artistry of legendary performers. The challenge is to post classical recordings made before 1949 (pre-LP era). Here […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalTimeMachine Week 2

    Oct 16th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalTimeMachine, #ClassicsaDay, Anton Bruckner, Edward Elgar, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Twitter

    For the month of October, the Classics a Day team turned nostalgic. Classical musicians have been making recordings since the 1890s. So we all have over 130 years of documented performance practices. And we can judge first-hand the artistry of legendary performers. The challenge is to post classical recordings made before 1949 (pre-LP era). Here […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ClassicalChristmas Week 2

    Dec 13th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicalChristmas, #ClassicsaDay, Edward Elgar, Eric Whitacre, Paul Hindemith, Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Twitte

    This marks the third year running that the Classics a Day team made Christmas music the December theme. I guess that makes it a tradition. When it comes to the music of the season, there’s plenty to choose from. Since the 1100s composers have written sacred music for Advent and Christmas — and plenty of […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #ArmisticeClassics Week 3

    Nov 23rd, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, Alban Berg, Classical music, Edward Elgar, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernest MacMillan, Ivor Gurney, Twitter

    November 19, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. The #ClassicaDay team asked participants to post classical works related to the conflict.   For my part, I tried to find examples from both sides of the war, and from as many different countries as possible. Here are my posts […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #FamousLastWorks Week 3

    Oct 19th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #FamousLastWorks, Dmitri Shostakovich, Edward Elgar, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev

    For the month of October, the #ClassicsaDay team (of which I’m a part), decided to go with a Halloween theme. The idea is to share works marked in some way with the composer’s demise. It can be the last piece a composer completed before death, or one left incomplete at death. For my part, I […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Opus1 Annotated List Week 3

    Jan 19th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #Opus1, Dimitri Shostakovich, Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Christian Bach, Samuel Barber, Twitter

    I’m a regular contributor to the #ClassicsaDay Twitter feed. For January 2018, I decided to mark the first month of the new year with firsts. Each post features the first published work of a different composer.   Emphasis on the word “published,” In some cases, the Opus 1 is the first mature work of the […]

  • Raunächte – The Twelve Nights after Christmas Drawn in Pastels

    Dec 26th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Agneta Skjöld, CD Review, Cesar Bresgen, choral music, Christmas, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, Gjendine Slålien, Joan Szymko, John Rutter, LaCapella, Morten Vinther Sørensen, Ola Gjeilo, Rondeau Productions, Wilhelm Nagel

    For Americans, the Twelve Days of Christmas means turtledoves, drummers drumming and five golden rings. But for Northern Europeans, that time between Christmas day and Epiphany (January 6) is when winter weather is often harshest. Yet it’s also a time of hope. Raunächte collects twelve works that exemplify that spirit of hope “in the bleak […]

  • An operatic Dream of Gerontius

    Dec 29th, 2014 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, CD Review, Chandos, choral music, Classical music, David Soar, Edward Elgar, SACD, Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton

    Sir Andrew Davis has performed “The Dream of Gerontius” with these same forces in live performance. And that may be why this recording sounds so organic. Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, and David Soar sound like they’ve all settled into their roles, and the duets seem sometimes almost conversational. Davis’ vision of Elgar’s massive work leans […]

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