I decided to upload a version of Elgar’s Nimrod from YouTube – the piece with the
power to move Natalia Luis-Bassa and me equally, it would seem. Being
post-midnight, I decided I would have to play it quietly out of deference to my
neighbour, and that just wasn’t right.
I have great respect for the purity and power inherent in
certain pieces of instrumental music, and Nimrod
is one of them. It has to be played with sufficient volume that the
crescendo shakes you from your foundations and lifts you to the heights,
before laying you gently down to rest. For me, it’s about getting there, making
it through, finding the Holy Grail. Maybe it’s even about finding or making the ideal
love, I wouldn’t know.
Playing Nimrod
quietly would have been disrespectful, and I couldn’t do that to it. I turned
it off.
You can hear it here if you want to.
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