The slow movement of Draeseke's 3rd Symphony ('Tragica') conveys something of my mood after hearing of the death of the Queen yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WqJxPtZVSw&t=749s (from 12:30)
Maybe friends could post other (unsung) suggestions that express their feelings about this sad news?
The Adagio from Otto Olsson's Symphony comes straight into my mind.............
Thanks, Terry.
For the Olsson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUho-xD0xxw (from 21:36)
I feel a bit numb and a feeling of desolation so Shostakovich 11th Symphony in G minor Op.103.
Also the slow stateliness of Elgar's 1st Symphony.
Trying to be positive, the endings of both Raff's Lenore and Mahler's Resurrection symphonies.
Keeping suggestions to the music of our remit, Herzogenberg's "Die Geburt Christi" immediately comes to mind. Though written for a joyous event, the peaceful and uplifting beauty of the work reminds me of all the fine things that the Queen represented. Thus, its quiet joy is the perfect antidote for present sorrow.
If music from before our era is allowed, I could post here the Funeral Music for Queen Barbara Radziwiłł of Poland-Lithuania (d.1551 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Radziwiłł (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Radziwi%C5%82%C5%82)) by an anonymous Lithuanian composer. It's about 5 minutes long and utterly beautiful. In the circumstances, might this be allowed?
We've already wandered, so...
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A funeral piece with a bright glimmer of beauty would be George Templeton Strong's "Chorale on a Theme of Leo Hassler," conducted by our very own Adriano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iuyv00k6Fk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iuyv00k6Fk)
Lovely piece, Justin. My own choice would be Finzi's beautiful setting of Shakespeare's "Fear no more the heat of the sun".
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Where have you posted it, Christopher?
The Downloads section, I think?
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Herbert Brewer - as English as they come
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3dJwLqc4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g49F14ZX8Qw
Neil Gow : Lamentation.
Finzi's Eclogue for Piano & Strings.
20th century collection called iirc Garlands for the Queen that was written for her coronation by some fine composers (if one enjoys music by Rubbra and such) and might be equally fine to use now? (Or I may be thinking of Rubbra's solo vocal cycle with a similar name plus a collection by someone else. Hrm.)
... and I think back to those brilliant pieces Arthur Bliss wrote for the Queen after he had been nominated, in 1953, "Master of the Queen's Music (as a successor of Arnold Bax) - like:
The March "Welcome to the Queen" (1954) and
"A Song of Welcome" (1954, a short cantata, which was Joan Sutherland's debut in a British recording studio) and the
"Ceremonial Prelude" (written in 1965)
Holst's "I Vow to Thee My Country," which, a bit uncannily, came to mind a few days before she passed. At the time I was thinking of next year's coronation. I think it works for either occasion.
"The love that asks no questions
The love that stands the test
That lays upon the altar
The dearest and the best..."
In the British Light Music genre - the then Princess Elizabeth on her 18th birthday requested "Dusk" by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) - https://youtu.be/UmyfIqWBUFc (https://youtu.be/UmyfIqWBUFc)
And then of course there is the Elizabethan Serenade by Ronald Binge (1910-1979). Acc to wikipedia: "When it was first played by the Mantovani orchestra in 1951, it was simply titled "Andante cantabile", although the original orchestral manuscript parts in Ronald Binge's own hand show the title "The Man in the Street" (possibly the title of an early television documentary). The name was altered by the composer to reflect the post-war optimism of a "new Elizabethan Age" that began with the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in February 1952".