This is currently my favorite recording. No one else I've heard yet manages to capture the ecstatic splendor of the last few minutes the way this recording does. Who cares about highlighting the inner contrapuntal motions if it is at the cost of the gesture! Elgar has always seemed to me a composer whose orchestration was characteristically extremely thick and dense. Trying to play it too "clean" loses some of the Elgarian flavor!
Glazunov is absolutely terrible--far more boring than other nineteenth-century composers. Elgar, however, is sublime. I don't know how anyone can listen to Glazunov without falling asleep. He is mediocre among other Russian composers as well.
Such marvelous orchestration...and even more astonishing music.
I think this is my all time favorite symphony
Either this or Walton 1 for me, I think
this and tchaik's 5, for me
One of the best symphonies I have ever heard! Thank you for sharing!
My all-time favourite.
1st mov
00:06 Opening Theme
03:50 1st Theme
04:58 2nd Theme
15:10 Dev ex
20:10 Closing
2nd mov
20:40 opening
21:13 march
22:29 2nd theme
27:28 ending
Thank you so much 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Sinfonia muito bonita, certos trechos lembram a obra Variações
32:27 48:50 ♥️
This is currently my favorite recording. No one else I've heard yet manages to capture the ecstatic splendor of the last few minutes the way this recording does. Who cares about highlighting the inner contrapuntal motions if it is at the cost of the gesture! Elgar has always seemed to me a composer whose orchestration was characteristically extremely thick and dense. Trying to play it too "clean" loses some of the Elgarian flavor!
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Boring. Bring me Glazunov.
Glazunov is absolutely terrible--far more boring than other nineteenth-century composers. Elgar, however, is sublime.
I don't know how anyone can listen to Glazunov without falling asleep. He is mediocre among other Russian composers as well.