tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post114328206237426010..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Elgar, Alsop and BernsteinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1143403344098615662006-03-26T21:02:00.000+01:002006-03-26T21:02:00.000+01:00Marcus, your comment about Elgar and ballet remind...Marcus, your comment about Elgar and ballet reminds me that in 1975 I saw the Sadlers Wells Ballet perform <I>The Sanguine Fan</I> with music by Elgar and Sir Adrian Boult conducting.<BR/><BR/>I wonder how many of today's jet-set maestros would conduct ballet? (It is interesting that Antal Dorati was another fine ballet conductor).<BR/><BR/>Follow <A HREF="http://www.elgar.org/3sangfan.htm" REL="nofollow">this link</A> for more on Elgar's music for <I>The Sanguine Fan</I>.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1143322059474315712006-03-25T21:27:00.000+00:002006-03-25T21:27:00.000+00:00'I am doing that string thing ... no working-out p...<I>'I am doing that string thing ... no working-out part but a devil of a fugue instead, G major and the 2nd divvel in G minor'</I>. <BR/><BR/>So wrote Elgar in 1905 to his publisher Jaeger about the composition of his <I>Introduction and Allegro</I>.<BR/><BR/>Thank you Marcus for reminding us of how great that <I>'devil of a fugue</I> really is. <BR/><BR/>Isn't it interesting that so many consider this magnificent work to be his finest, yet it is also his most classical in form?Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1143296731937956682006-03-25T14:25:00.000+00:002006-03-25T14:25:00.000+00:00Otherwise, Elgar, like Bruckner, is a provincial c...<I>Otherwise, Elgar, like Bruckner, is a provincial composer of severely flawed scores that fervent little fan clubs have bullied us into accepting as masterpieces </I><BR/><BR/>Charming...<BR/><BR/>So Karajan, Giulini, Jochum, Furtwangler, Horenstein, Sinopoli, Chailly, Celibidache, Tintner et al wasted all their time on wonderful performances and recordings of <I>severely flawed scores</I> for nothing?<BR/><BR/>If anybody could get Karajan and Celibidache in the same <I>fan club</I> they must have been doing something interesting...Shablagoo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/02735403619368790644noreply@blogger.com