Elgarian "Nobilmente" from Unsung Composers

[Klaatu]

I'm a sucker for Elgarian "Nobilmente" - his own score-marking for music which expresses..... what? ..... yes, the nobility of the human condition, but suffused with spirituality, yearning and nostalgia. Almost as if the music were celebrating some vast, unimaginable potential of the human spirit whilst simultaneously grieving for its lack of attainment.

Anything that conjures up Elgar at his most purply yet vulnerably noble has a high "tingle factor" for me.

So .... any ideas for music in a similar vein by "unsungs"? (They don't necessarily have to be British.)

As far as English composers are concerned, I'm thinking of pieces like the Finale of Bliss's Things To Come; the opening of Rubbra's Fourth Symphony; the glorious "Poor Parson of a Town" from Dyson's Canterbury Pilgrims, and Brian's In Memoriam.

Suggestions welcome!

[alberto]

For me the Martucci Symphonies. And particularly the Finale of the first Symphony.

[Alan Howe]

How about Boughton's 3rd Symphony? Almost an Elgar clone...

[edurban]

Ireland's These Things Shall Be (the section beginning "Nation with nation").

David

[edurban]

Also, parts of the (last movement, I think) of Bowen's viola concerto.

David