From the 9 Sept entry on Elgar
"...Tears seeped out of my eyes for an hour afterwords (not sobbing but seeping). I can't believe the way Elgar and his hopes and despairs just came to life. This was the first work of Ken's in which the WORK artists go through became clear to me. This seems to be the recurring theme of all seven films; Elgar, Duncan, Debussy, Rosetti, Delius, Rousseau and yes, even Reeck-hard Strauss worked, lived and were their art to extent that I don't think exists anywhere today. If it does it is isolated with a few people globally and we must find them. I could have easily named two dozen other artists within each film, connected to the seven, who were working as hard. Comparatively, Earth was once a world of artists. These films are STUNNING..."
http://superamanda.blogspot.com/2011/09/ken-russell-at-bbc-and-stendahl.html