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One of the most tantalizing musical 'mysteries' or 'Lost Works' is the 8th that Sibeius struggled with and not only never completed, but apparently gave up trying to and burned it.
He may have been right as who could really have put together the work he did as a 'performing version' even if it wasn't as good as he thought it should be? And yet, how i wish he had left what he'd done so we could hear it!
And yet a few sketches escaped the flames and are performed here to give us a glimpse at what some of it would have sounded like.
I came across the Pomp and Circumstance no 6. Lost or incompleted by 'Elaborated' by Anthony Payne (who completed the 3rd symphony in a performing version).
Rather more elaborate than the other more straightforward marches. It almost would do as a prelude to the 'Arthur' incidental music.
Extraordinary that Host and Vaughan -Williams were thought to make some 'English music' when Elgar had already done it. And Handel before that, and both had given the music that followed character. True, Handel was a German who wrote like an Englishman and Elgar was an Englishman who wrote like a German. A lot of Brahms, and of Wagner, a touch of him, and a little of Strauss, but not very much of him.
But here in what is surely one of the greatest violin concertos ever, up with Sibelius' and Shostakovich 1st and Bartok's 2nd concerto, there is a very English voice, and in the later style, celebrating the countryside rater than pomp and circumstance. Don't miss the extraordinary accompanied cadenza in the finale.
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