{"product_id":"elgar-symphonies-no-1-2","title":"Elgar Symphonies No. 1 \u0026 2","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 1907 Elgar’s wife Alice wrote in her diary that her husband was playing a ‘great beautiful tune’. This became the opening theme of his First Symphony; the march is marked ‘nobilmente e semplice’ (nobly and simply). This tune reappears throughout the work, finally heard for the last time in the coda to the finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElgar’s Second Symphony was composed over the course of some years, and is an intensely personal work. The composer described it as ‘the passionate pilgrimage of a soul’ and said that the Rondo was associated with lines from one of Tennyson’s poems, beginning ‘Dead, long dead’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis release also includes Elgar’s Overture\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFroissart\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis recording was made as part of the Philharmonia’s 2007 Elgar series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIGCD179 | March 2010 release\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"philharmonia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48072193147193,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7810\/4633\/files\/179cover_1-1536x1536.jpg?v=1707827240","url":"https:\/\/shop.philharmonia.co.uk\/products\/elgar-symphonies-no-1-2","provider":"Philharmonia Orchestra","version":"1.0","type":"link"}