Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches, No. 2

Something that desperately needs to be on Youtube. The second march is like an appetizer, but it has a nice rhythm.

The second is the shortest and most simply constructed of the marches. The composer Charles Villiers Stanford is said to have preferred this march to the first, and thought this the finest of all the marches. After a loud call to attention from the brass, a simple staccato theme, tense and repetitive, is played staccato by the strings, which is gradually joined by other instruments and builds up to a decisive climax. This section is repeated. The second theme, confidently played by horns and clarinets, is one which was sketched by Elgar a few years before: this is developed and ends with flourishes from the strings and brass joined by the glockenspiel. The opening staccato theme returns, concluded by a quiet swirling bass passage, which leads into the Trio section (in the tonic major key of C) which consists of a delightfully simple tune in thirds played by the woodwind (flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons), answered conclusively by the strings and brass. This Trio section is repeated, and the march concluded with a brilliant little coda.

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[soaper4]

Wait... In the description it mentions "The composer Charles Villers Stanford..." If Stanford composed it, what did Elgar do?

[Dracorex13]

@soaper4

Stanford was one of Elgar's contemporaries. He didn't write the march, he was simply commenting on it.

[madelineschannel]

Anyone know which one is the graduation song?

I didn't know there were different 'marches' of Pomp and Circumstance

[Dracorex13]

The trio (slow part) from No. 1

[qwrhggnhmeut]

I am so glad somebody put these on Youtube!

Thanks!

[Bibliomaniac15]

I agree. The forgotten two must be heard!

[torukmakto4]

RUSHING LIKE HELL! Not a race...

[torukmakto4]

Whoever performed this: You are RUSHING LIKE HELL.

[artvandelayist]

People need to understand what context Pomp and Circumstance is in. It's about glory, victory, and the valor of war from the classical perspective.

[J1L2T3V4C5]

Grand music!

[NeilHP]

@soaper4 Retard!

[attila3453]

I think I have heard this before but I don't know where. I think Sherlock Holmes...

[happywandy457]

HappyWandy457, marches of this kind are not ment to march at all: It is simply a marvelous piece of music wonderfully interpreted.

Hans Fröhlich - Germany

[5610winston]

Marches, by definition, are to be played at a walking pace, generally no more than 120 bpm, and the tempo should be steady.

This sprint through the introductory strains to get to the more lyrical bits is utterly inexcusable!

[Dragonese1]

Royal Philharmonic has always been number one. Their interpretation of this marvelous classic is beyond compare. Bravo! Elgar was a genius.