{"id":2268,"date":"2009-11-03T00:59:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:01:34","slug":"elgars-op-84-piano-quintet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2268","title":{"rendered":"Elgar\u2019s Op.84 Piano Quintet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fatal pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty of \u201cLand of Hope and Glo\u00adry\u201d and the Pomp and Cir\u00adcum\u00adstance march\u00ades long obscured the fact that Elgar has con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable depth. Those who lis\u00adten the Sym\u00adphonies and the Cel\u00adlo Con\u00adcer\u00adto close\u00adly know this, of course, but it\u2019s also worth pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion to his mod\u00adest out\u00adput of cham\u00adber music, the best pieces of which were all com\u00adposed in the sum\u00admer of 1918. <!--more-->The Quin\u00adtet for Piano and String Quar\u00adtet is an exam\u00adple, and it is one of my favourites in that genre. It\u2019s full of shift\u00ading and ambigu\u00adous moods, stop\u00adping and start\u00ading in an odd way. It\u2019s rather long, usu\u00adal\u00adly tak\u00ading about forty min\u00adutes to play. It is said to have been inspired by this tree, near Elgar\u00ad\u2019s Sus\u00adsex cottage:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elgar-quintet-nov-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2269\" title=\"Elgar quintet nov 09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elgar-quintet-nov-09-300x148.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elgar-quintet-nov-09-300x148.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elgar-quintet-nov-09.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fatal pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty of \u201cLand of Hope and Glo\u00adry\u201d and the Pomp and Cir\u00adcum\u00adstance march\u00ades long obscured the fact that Elgar has con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable depth. Those who lis\u00adten the Sym\u00adphonies and the Cel\u00adlo Con\u00adcer\u00adto close\u00adly know this, of course, but it\u2019s \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2268\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cr-listening-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}