Elgar: The Kingdom/Coronation Ode

Advantages: Catchy Tune
Disadvantages: None

...Ode to joy was written by one of the worlds most renounced composers - Beethoven. This is in my opinion the best of beethoven's symphonies. This song is the easy to play and the tune is very catchy. The music is E E F G G F E D C C D E E D D E E F G G F E D C C D E D C C. The easy tune is very catchy and quite easy to remember. If you are learning to play the piano or keyboard I would suggest that you start by learning this one. I would recommend it to anyone who likes joyful, happy tunes and people who have kids. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: It is simply one of the finest pieces of music ever written
Disadvantages: How dare you ask of any disadvantges!?!

...THE MAN: SIR EDWARD ELGAR It's probably futile for me to tell you who is Edward Elgar. To the British readers here he holds about the same position as Sibelius does for me as a Finn, being THE composer whose musical language captures the ideologies of the country, working as a kind of stereotypical signature for the people. Elgar was born in 1857 as the son of a music shop owner and through a course of self-instruction became a masterful orchestrator and soon found himself as a reknowned choral composer with a great deal of choral works and other religiously titled pieces to his credit. However, it was not until 1899 that his reputation was sealed as a truly great composer when he wrote the masterful "Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma'", which contained musical portraits of friends of Elgar and became an instant success. After... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Good show, hurrah for the British Empire!
Disadvantages: Hum, humph...

...it is good that Naxos have decided to include some more rare pieces instead, and with a running time of 79 minutes, there is certainly no space saved. [Appreciating mumbling, "Good, good", "Good show", "By George, top form".] CORONATION MARCH, OP.65 (1911) (10:37) The album begins with the grandest of Elgar's marches, the Coronation March, written for the coronation of King George V in 1911. Beginning with a deeply profound and solemn brass theme that was originally intended for a ballet on the subject of Rabelais that never materialised (much due to Victorian prudence on the subject matter), the work gets more lively and optimistically stately as it progresses, though never overstepping its intended purpose of a grand processional. [Approving mumbling and restrained clapping from the gents.] In the end the opening, solemn theme... Read review

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