National Symphony Orchestra - Elgar, Finzi, Howells, Webber & Vaughan Williams: Elegy (CD) - CD

Details: That there is indeed something of the ethereal, of the timeless, and of the indefinable pervading all of the music heard on this CD instantly calls into question our shared notions of what the term Elegy actually signifies. Here the listener will encounter none of the unutterable despair of, for example, Samuel Barber's great Adagio for Strings, or the tortured valediction of Richard...