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...when numbness in her fingers turned out to be Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that eventually killed her. It was an emotional experience: by that time, my father was playing one of du Pre's cellos - a 1674 Stradivarius - and he was due to use it to perform Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor, a piece of barely restrained mourning that took on added power in the memory of du Pre's playing. "I dedicated the performance to her," my father recalls. "For years after I bought the Strad I could hear Jackie's [artistic] voice when I played...
...like slurs of the winds. The lovely muted sounds of the ninth variation, “Nimrod,” created an especially noble effect as the main theme was, for the first time, drawn out in a long line sustained by swells of sound. In the final variation, Elgar returned to himself. Hangen paced the last variation very well, as he alternately pushed forward the rolling waves of sound and pulled back to build the excitement finally unleashed in the brass lines at the end. Though it took over an hour—and three selections from Wagner operas?...
...need to improve your midrange game. With that advantage, you'd be unstoppable. What do you think about that? Shimon Elgar, JERUSALEM...
...Elgar String Quintet Paine Hall...
...last long, so it's unlikely she'll fare better with the classics. Commercial potential: $$ Artistry: Too soon to tell Dominic Miller Argentinian session guitarist and a favorite collaborator of Sting, he hit the classical charts earlier this year with Shapes - pop reworkings of classics by Beethoven, Bach, Elgar and Albinoni. When his album launched BBC Worldwide's Inversion label, rivals feared the label's built-in media access would mean unfair playtime. Sales might have more to do with model looks than the inoffensive muzak. Commercial potential: $$$$ Artistry: ... Tony Henry...