In an Age Hungry for Meaning, the Cello’s Voice Lingers
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In the hush that follows the first, tentative notes of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, one senses a world already slipping away. Composed in 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, the work unfolds not as a triumphant declaration but as a subdued elegy — a solitary voice tracing the contours of what has been irretrievably lost. Whereas Elgar’s earlier Pomp and Circumstance Marches had embodied an imperial grandeur, outward-facing and confident, the Cello Concerto turns
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