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Tharg
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    The trumpet (horn?) cadenza in the second movement with its not-quite-right Last Post always gets me. My paternal grandfather died in the first battle of the Somme. Obviously, I never knew the chap but those haunting, evocative notes bring alive all the tragedy and loss of those terrible times. It is even worse than Howard Goodall’s ultimate theme for Blackadder Goes Forth. Very hard to listen to that.