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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Composer of the Week: Edward Elgar (1857-1934): Episode 3: The Long-Awaited Symphony

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

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Episode 3: The Long-Awaited Symphony

The Long-Awaited Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Edward Elgar (1857-1934), The Long-Awaited Symphony

Donald Macleod focuses on two very different facets of Elgar's musical personality.

Donald Macleod focuses on two very different facets of Elgar's musical personality, as evidenced in the First Pomp and Circumstance March and the First Symphony.

Celebrating British Music: Donald Macleod explores the life and work of the 'quintessentially English' composer, Edward Elgar, whose musical roots lay firmly in Europe, and whose Catholicism and class background bequeathed him a lifelong sense of isolation from mainstream British society.

Today's programme explores two very different facets of Elgar's musical personality: on the one hand, the confident unflappability of the first Pomp and Circumstance march; and on the other, the nuanced, doubt-ridden progress of the First Symphony, whose conclusion is just as triumphant but much harder won. Both works were huge, instant and enduring successes.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Edward Elgar

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of the 'quintessentially English' Edward Elgar, a composer who nevertheless had musical roots firmly in Europe

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