OT:Remembrance service music

mel58i wrote on 11/18/2004, 8:36 AM

Hi folks,
Just putting together a video I have shot of the remembrance at our local cenotath (excuse the spelling) here in the UK.
Trying to find the music that the bbc sometimes play when they show the poppy fields and the war graves (a solumn lament), but I don't know what its called.
Does anyone know and if they do - do they have it?

Thanks.

Mel.

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RalphM wrote on 11/18/2004, 4:47 PM

Sorry, not familiar with the BBC's music. You may want to try the classical section of Magnatunes.com for a pretty good selection of "serious" music.

rextilleon wrote on 11/18/2004, 8:28 PM

Actually, Samuel Barbers Adagio for Strings would work wonders there (even if you cant recognize the piece, I assure you have hear it.)

Grazie wrote on 11/18/2004, 11:48 PM

Was it Nimrod, from Gustav Holt's Planet Suite? I know it WAS played during the Cenotaph Service .. but I could be wrong . . . hmmm...

I do seem to remember the crosses and the like . .and thinking that either it WAS the Adagio for Strings OR that it WASN'T . . I do remember thinking this . . but maybe on reflection it was - 'cos I think I was thinking that how where they going to end up with that absolutely "chilling" final whistful chord - right at the end . . but of course the VT editor didn't get us to the actual end of the piece . . of what ever nusic it was . .

Grazie

mel58i wrote on 11/19/2004, 2:13 AM

Thanks for your replies.
Yes the piece I was refering to was "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations op36 by Elgar.
The other piece "Adagio for Strings" is also a fitting piece.
Due to a time constraint I had to use an in stock alternative "Clarinet Concerto in A major" by Mozart, which works well over the laying down of poppy wreaths at my cenotaph.
Will keep the sugestions in mind if I do another one next year.

Thanks again,

Mel.

Grazie wrote on 11/19/2004, 2:50 AM

ELGAR yes ELGAR . .Holst . .twit .. G

TorS wrote on 11/19/2004, 4:25 AM

Grazie, getting the title right is not bad.
I'd say the Adagio is over-used. Stay away from it. Stick with Elgar, a true craftsman. Or Vaughan Williams. Try something from one of his pastoral symphonies. And a very solemn piece of music indeed: The opening to Matthãus-Passion by J. S. Bach.

BUT, why does it have to be so old. Have you heard Fratres by Arvo Pärt? Do!
Tor

mel58i wrote on 11/19/2004, 7:49 AM

Grazie is forgiven for thinking that Holst is Elgar. But I do seem to have heard somewhere that they were living together for a short while !! (well it is Friday).
Give me the first few seconds from a song from the sixties and I'll give you the title, but I ain't into classics!
Buy you a pint sometime Grazie, just for trying (lol).

Mel.