Edward W. Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches, No. 5

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Dracorex13 — 12 de marzo de 2009 — Something that desperately needs to be on Youtube. The fifth march was composed many years after the others, only four years before Elgar's death. A sixth march was also started but never finished.

March No. 5 is brilliantly orchestrated and extrovert in mood. Without introduction, its opening episode is extended with enormous confidence and proceeds directly into the Trio section, which if it had words set to it, could have been one of Elgar's most memorable tunes. The Trio starts quietly in a similar way to the introduction of his First Symphony: just a moving bass line and a tune, also in the same key (A♭). The tune is re-stated strongly, as we expect, then developed. The re-statement of the opening employs the same instruments of the orchestra, but is this time started as soft as possible for just four bars before a quick crescendo restores its spirit to as it was in the beginning. There is more development before a big return of the Trio theme and a triumphant ending which might bring to mind the conclusion of Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King.