Quote #3
The enigma I will not explain - its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
More from Edward Elgar
- To my friends pictured within.
- I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for…
- My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.
- People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really …
- Play it like something you hear down by the river.
- His range is so Handelian that he can give the people a universal melody or march with as sure a hand as he can give the Philharmonic Socie…
- The aggressive Edwardian prosperity that lends so comfortable a background to Elgar's finales is now as strange to us as the England that p…
- Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and no…