Edward Elgar | Salut D'Amour

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Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (1857 – 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.

Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British Army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory.

In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertory of British orchestras. Elgar's music came, in his later years, to be seen as appealing chiefly to British audiences. His stock remained low for a generation after his death. It began to revive significantly in the 1960s, helped by new recordings of his works. Some of his works have, in recent years, been taken up again internationally, but the music continues to be played more in Britain than elsewhere.

Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the moving-coil microphone in 1923 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from The Dream of Gerontius.

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One of the most bittersweet moments of my life was playing this at my grandma's funeral. I started and ended with a few bars of Pachelbel's canon, and modulated to and from the "Salut". Such a beautiful piece. Truly, words cannot do it justice.

tonsolerigarcia

Ах, это было прекрасно, нежно и дыхание полной грудью!
Немного завидую пианистам, так как мне, как скрипачке, доступна для исполнения только верхняя строчка....
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elenarot

How is it possible that this little channel produced the most beautiful interpretation of this piece I've ever heard... my friend, you are more than special! A treasure!

ianwilliams

Whoa! two for two! A known composer and I know the piece! This is one I've actually played. It certainly is lovely, isn't it? Your expression and dynamic control is on point.

I love that first transition into G major; it just melts my heart.

michaelclements

This is a lovely performance, very subtle and perfectly engaged with Elgar's sound world. It's very much in the style of a 'song without words', and lyrics have been written for it but none that do it justice or are in any way memorable: perhaps someone will one day, . The original was written for violin and piano but the solo piano version was done by Elgar as well. It is surely one of his most affecting melodies.

qadile