{"id":4470,"date":"2023-03-27T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2023-09-11T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:53:11","slug":"arachnophonia-elgars-cello-concerto-op-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2023\/03\/arachnophonia-elgars-cello-concerto-op-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Elgar’s Cello Concerto, op. 85"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student manager Brianna (class of 2023) and features English composer Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto (1919)<\/a>. Thanks, Brianna!<\/em><\/p>\n

Cello Concerto, Op. 85<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nEdward Elgar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Elgar\"

British composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Elgar Cello Concerto<\/a> is one of the most famous and recognized concertos written for solo cello. Composed by Edward Elgar in the aftermath of World War I, this concerto<\/a> first debuted in 1919 (the same year in which it was written). <\/p>\n

The work did not become a cornerstone of solo cello repertoire until a recording<\/a> by Jacqueline Du Pr\u00e9<\/a> caught the attention of the public. Her recording was so captivating that Rostropovich<\/a> is said to have removed it from his own repertoire after hearing her play. <\/p>\n

This piece<\/a> is one of my favorite cello concertos, and while I also believe that no one can play this better than Du Pr\u00e9, I greatly enjoyed my time learning from this piece. It is absolutely a work that every solo cellist should play at least once in their career! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61217,15223],"tags":[61217,230861,191297,76092,230557,191294,191296,207057],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arachnophonia","category-collection","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-22-23","tag-brianna","tag-cello","tag-cello-concerto","tag-cello-solo","tag-edward-elgar","tag-elgar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-1a6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4476,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}