Edward Elgar - Sospiri

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[djluckywiz]

It's impossible to listen to this whilst doing something else, it simply demands complete attention.

[AHafan1]

@djluckywiz Agreed. I heard this on iPod radio while walking from the bus stop. Was incredible, I almost forgot where I was going

[TheVaughan5]

Possibly the most profound music ever written.

[Astron278]

@Tiggybel To me, the end to remembering. What's left after a past, a love, a deep friendship is forgotten. The people whose emotions those were are no longer among the living, and there are only tree-lined avenues and benches in the twilight.

[eldeano1]

elgar you music making machine

[Tiggybel]

to me it describes the end to something, anything, but with absolute beauty

[MrArdelco1970]

POetry

[Wavewolfaroha]

@HerrProfessorDoktor Couldn't agree more, as a violist!

[HerrProfessorDoktor]

As both a string orchestra conductor and a composer for strings, as well as a specialist in British music of the lat nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, I rank this as one of the three finest works ever written for string orchestra, with the Ralph Vaughan Williams "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" and the Samuel Barber "Adagio for Strings." Elgar brilliantly placed the instruments in their most expressive ranges in creating a work small in scope yet enormous in its power and passion.

[lapwinglane]

Nothing to do with World War 1 - reflected his feelings about a lady not his wife. They had decided not to divorce their respective spouses.

[FunVanDriver]

Best. song. EVER!