Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches, Op. 39 (with Score)

Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches, Op. 39 (with Score) Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra 00:00 March No. 1 in D major (1901) 06:11 March No. 2 in A minor (1901) 09:02 March No. 3 in C minor (1904) 14:40 March No. 4 in G major (1907) 19:44 March No. 5 in C major (1930) Like so many of his countrymen during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British composer Edward Elgar was ardently patriotic. Combined with his natural militaristic turn (he had, after all, married the daughter of an army general) and love of ceremony, this patriotism made Elgar perfectly suited to author a long and distinguished line of Marches; ultimately, these would take a place not only in the traditional occasional music of his own country, but also in that of Britain’s sister-nations across the Atlantic. The five Pomp and Circumstance marches, published collectively as Opus 39 but actually composed over a period of almost thirty y