A Portrait of Elgar - 'Hope and Glory'

This fascinating documentary on the great English composer, which features interviews with his biographers Michael Kennedy and Jerrold Northrop Moore, as well as musical examples from Simon Rattle and Nigel Kennedy, dates from 1984.

Note: Due to the age of this TV documentary, I am uploading it under the "Fair Use" terms and conditions employed by You Tube which I hope will be accepted!

[macklindsey]

The musical examples are wonderful highlights of Elgar's music and are very tighly and tellingly coordinated with the narrative. The use of fragments of the Cello Concerto over the course of the video is inspired. Even the closing credits are accompanied by a moment of magic from the First Symphony (from an early recording?).

[joeoconnor]

Elgar and Vaughan Williams two contrasting composers and personalities.

[simontaylor]

He and his music were one of the opening acts in 1933 at what we all now know as Abbey Rd Studios

[EmmanuelSikora]

Great documentary! You can tell the people who made it loved Elgar deeply. It's painfully sincere and I love it.

[alanwitton]

Thanks for uploading this video! I learned quite a lot about Elgar and his life!

[sospiroso]

This is a great video from way back that initially sparked my interest in Elgar's music. He was such an amazing composer undeniably up there with Mozart and Beethoven and he wrote some of the most beautiful music you can imagine. I am currently sharing my love for Elgar's music by playing some new arrangements for violin and piano so people can appreciate the full range of his output in "Elgar Through The Enjoy😊

[martincook]

That old film where he is Conducting is taken from the Opening of the Abbey Road Studio's in St John's Wood in the Autum off 1931

[garryhumphreys]

Thanks for posting this, which I saw on the big screen at Malvern in 1984 (its first showing) to mark the 50th anniversary of Elgar's death in 1934, then subsequently on television, from which I took a very imperfect videotape recording. I've long hoped that the Elgar Society/Foundation could somehow arrange for it to be reissued on DVD, but in the absence of this, having it here makes a very good alternative - Thank you! Something of a period piece now, but still a very powerful statement on behalf of this great composer and fascinating man., thanks to Jim Berrow and his team.

[md]

OMG - Nigel Kennedy at 12:44 in white tie and tails! Now that's something that I had never seen before.

[mkofftiger]

This is fascinating.  Thank you for posting it.  I've always admired Elgar's music, but I knew little about him.

[dennishochheim]

Thanks a lot for uploading this. It's a precious complement to what I found on Elgar one or two years ago. It comes just IN TIME for me, so "double thanks" for uploading it NOW! :-)

[plumjam]

Thanks for posting this. Most interesting.

[robertfletcher]

"Land of Hope and Glory" Where has that gone?

[annakimborahpa]

Thanks; it's a nice companion to the fanciful Ken Russell biography.

[daviddewar]

Percy Young wrote the Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers F C) centenary book and Elgar was a Wolves fan who cycled to their games from Shropshire

[martincook]

I Have got Some of Sir Edward Elgar's Records Reissued on Vinyl Except for the 1932 Recording of the Violin Concerto Recorded on Thursday and Friday July 14th and 15th 1932 Because I Collect Yehudi Menuhin's Records both on Pre War 78rpm and LP Vinyl;and the Record Number's of the Pre war 78rpm Record set which I've got in the Pre war album is DB-1751 DB-1756 and the first LP Transfer on the Red and Gold is ALP-1456 and in the HMV Treasury Serious Record Number HLM-7107 and its one of My favourite Records and I've also got a Mint first Pressing Stereo of Yehudi Menuhin's later Recording Recorded in January 1966 Record Number ASD-2259 and this year Mark's the 90th Anniversary of that famous 1932 Recording being made and the Recording has been Transferred to C-D which again I've got and also Reissued in 1957 by His Master's Voice is the Enigma Variations ALP-1464 and the Falstaff Symphonic Studie Record Number BLP-1090

[aswomebro]

1:12:23 For anyone discovering elgar, show them this section

[georgealderson]

Thank you for this video. It is only a pity that there is a problem with synchonisation but the music carries on. I find it interesting how dated the video is in 21st century. Time moves on

[TheWriterWalker]

"Has one found a good wife? One finds a good thing."

[thesolitarycyclist]

Not sure about Jerrold Northrop Moore's toupee!