Friends may be interested in the very positive and insightful assessment of Gade's lovely work featured before the performance here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08f5k0x (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08f5k0x)
Particularly fascinating is the description of Gade's work (i.e. the 1st movement) as foreshadowing certain aspects of Elgar's VC - comments with which I thoroughly agree.
Thank you for this. A favorite of mine...