Elgar - From the Bavarian Highlands, Partsongs
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Label: BR Klassik
Cat No: 900522
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 8th January 2021
Contents
Works
Go, song of mine, op.57Part-Songs (2), op.26
Part-Songs (5) from The Greek Anthology, op.45
Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, op.27
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, op.30
The Prince of Sleep
The Reveille, op.54
They are at rest
Weary Wind of the West
Artists
Chor des Bayerischen RundfunksRadoslaw Szulic (violin)
Julita Smolen (violin)
Max Hanft (piano)
Conductor
Howard ArmanWorks
Go, song of mine, op.57Part-Songs (2), op.26
Part-Songs (5) from The Greek Anthology, op.45
Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, op.27
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, op.30
The Prince of Sleep
The Reveille, op.54
They are at rest
Weary Wind of the West
Artists
Chor des Bayerischen RundfunksRadoslaw Szulic (violin)
Julita Smolen (violin)
Max Hanft (piano)
Conductor
Howard ArmanAbout
The CD begins with the song cycle From the Bavarian Highlands, op.27; its six cheerful numbers were written while Elgar and his wife were on holiday in Garmisch in 1895. Alice Elgar had sketched verses from Bavarian folk melodies, and Upper Bavarian songs and dances can be heard in her husband’s settings. These were happy memories of carefree holidays in a region rich in music and full of fine landscapes. The Bavarian Radio Chorus, conducted by Howard Arman, sings the songs in their original version with piano accompaniment (the orchestral version came later).
As a composer of English-language choral songs, Elgar is still little-known on the European mainland; in the United Kingdom, however, the situation is very different. The country has long had a lively choral scene, focusing primarily on English music – from Purcell and Handel to Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford and Elgar, all the way to Benjamin Britten and today’s contemporary composers. The programme on this CD has been compiled and conducted by the Englishman Howard Arman, one of today’s most knowledgeable experts on British choral music and artistic director of the Bavarian Radio Chorus, and these recordings should do much to boost the popularity of this highly appealing music on the European mainland as well.
In addition to the six songs of the cycle From the Bavarian Highlands, op.27 (1895), the CD also contains Elgar’s Spanish Serenade, op.23 (1891), the Two Partsongs, op.26 (1894), “As Torrents in Summer” from op.30 (1896), Five Partsongs from the Greek Anthology, op.45 (1902), Weary Wind of the West (1902/1930), The Reveille, op.54 (1907), Go, Song of Mine, op.57 (1909), the elegy They Are at Rest (1909) and The Prince of Sleep (1925).
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