This post has been linked to RAnn's Sunday Snippets
His 'Eclogue for Piano and Strings' is something I've returned to repeatedly over the last 20 years or so. It was written between 1925 and 1929; which is to say, after Britain's Pyrrhic victory in the First World War, and before the utter exhaustion of the Second.
I always hope to hear in a piece of music an echo of the time in which it was written. In the case of the Eclogue, I hear a traumatized nation hoping the world might be beautiful again; but also accepting that it might not.
Eclogue for Piano and Strings (10 minutes)
5 comments:
You had me at "eclogue." As soon as I saw that word in your post title, I immediately thought of Vergil's collection of ten bucolic poems that I had the good fortune to read with a brilliant professor when I was an undergrad. I used to say that I did not know who was the greater genius, Vergil for writing such lines, or Prof. Damen for explicating all the nuances and beauty for us.
At any rate, I followed the link and am listening to the piece even as I type this. It is so peaceful. Thank you for sharing.
"You had me at "eclogue."
Heh...
"As soon as I saw that word in your post title, I immediately thought of Vergil's collection of ten bucolic poems..."
And until recently I only knew the term in its musical sense.
Simply artful - in the true sense of the word - appealing to the aesthetic.
This is a lovely work. Although I was a music major in college, I have never heard of this composer. He is blessedly harmonic.
"Although I was a music major in college, I have never heard of this composer."
There are so many over the last 400 years, it's almost impossible to keep up.
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