Talk:Symphony No. 2 (Elgar)

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Sir Charles Mackerras once told me that people tend to be either "First Symphony people" or "Second Symphony people." I have always preferred the Second; the First has always struck me as being too "even" in tone, too much the same in some fashion. I like and respond to the light-and-shadow quality of the Second, its somehow freer expression, its "unevenness," but I have always been in a minority since the Second has never been as well-known or -received as the First. Wspencer11 15:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Interesting... I love them both but for different reasons, and the slow movement of the 2nd I think is one of the most beautiful and moving compositions of the early 20th century, and seems like a farewell to the entire Edwardian age. The 1st symphony seems more of a work about heroism, to me, and the 2nd about farewell. Antandrus (talk) 15:52, 6 July 2006 (UTC)