Random Playlist Song: Les introuvables de Jacqueline du Pre, disk 1 of 6: Jacqueline Du Pre, John Barbirolli - Elgar- Concerto Cello in E minor - Adagio Moderato

This is one of the few works (the only one that comes to mind at present) that has made me tear.

Elgar.org:

"Intimate, highly-concentrated and unlike any other ever written for the instrument. Pablo Casals, Paul Tortelier, Jacqueline du Pré and Yo-Yo Ma are among the cellists who have made landmark recordings of Elgar's concerto, and memorable new interpretations continue to appear. The concerto may be the work of Elgar's with the most universal appeal, but, paradoxically, it is the work of his that is most rooted in a specific moment in time.

Elgar wrote the concerto in 1919, just after the Great War. Appalled and disillusioned by the suffering caused by the war, he realized that life in Europe would never be the same after such destruction. His first reaction had been to withdraw from composition, and he wrote very little music during the war's first four years. Then, over a period of twelve months - from August of 1918 to the following August - Elgar poured his feelings into four works that rank among the finest he ever composed. The first three were chamber works in which he developed a new musical voice, more concise and subdued than his previous one. The fourth work was the Cello Concerto, Elgar's lament for a lost world."


Me: it's really a great song
consider that I'm not one for 20th century =D

Frigid Girl: haha =p elgar is different
he doesn't write screwed up songs
neither does benjamin britten

must be something in the english
i think it's called common sense

Me: haha

no britten has screwed up songs

On Winamp: A Ceremony of Carols: Westminster Cathedral Choir - Ceremony of Carols - Adam lay i-bounden

the whole of the ceremony of carols is funny
some is awful
some is ok only