Elgar: Symphony No. 2; Prelude to Dream of Gerontius; "Imperial March." (Adrian Boult, BBC Symphony Orchestra)

National Review | November 5, 1990| | Copyright

What witness do we have of the music composed before and between the two World Wars? Stravinsky, yes! Schoenberg, no! But with the passage of time, the era begins to take shape, and three new recordings aid the process. Composer, conductor, teacher, critic, Paul Hindemith was a musical jack of all trades. The avant garde never forgave him for his campaign against Schoenberg's Procrustean theories. He knew where music should go, but he could never quite walk that road himself. His compositions had body, intelligence, and scope, but they lacked the essential elements of ...

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