Elgar - Marches - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

EVENING AT THE CLUB Outside of his concertos, symphonies and choral music, I suppose none of Sir Edward Elgar’s works are as well remembered by the general populus than his marches. Though they can't really be called ”important” works, they do have a distinct air of stereotypical British pompousness about them that defines the English Imperialism and sense of brash importance on the rage before the First World War. As regards Elgar, these considerations are also often mixed with the thoughts of a refined country gentleman that Elgar’s personality ironically seems to enbody despite being born as the son of a shopkeeper, a profession that was considered almost ...