Classical Music.

[Tero]

It's a nice concerto. More parts at Youtube.

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[Tero]

String quartets seem to be more work to get thru, as listener, than a symphony of the same length. Here is a small helping of Vivace



The entire piece, with video of players
https://youtu.be/J5zlNd-djlw

[Brian Peacock]

G.F. Händel: 6 Concerti Grossi Op.3, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr.

[Tero]

In the Opus 3, number 6 is actually this



The older recordings put in a middle movement from an organ concerto, which publisher Walsh put in during Handel's time

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Boxed set of Benjamin Britten arrived today and so finishes my English composer series. Only a shelf but they are boxed sets, all five of them.

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Benjamin Britten - thought it'd be all bombast and nationalistic jingoism yet turned out to be anything but...

[Hermit]

"Recurring themes in his operas include the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society and the corruption of innocence." Link

Maybe you thought of Elgar, but he too

felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition.

[urlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar]Link[/url]

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There are no evil geniuses only over sensitive and misunderstood ones. Classical composers in the English tradition summed up then?

[Brian Peacock]

Ivor Gurney, A Gloucestershire Rhapsody, 1921.

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[Tero]

Sad music from Estonia

[Brian Peacock]

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