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Listeners unfamiliar with Edward Elgar's songs might not guess the composer on hearing them blind, for their idiom, internally quite consistent over a period of years, little resembles that of the composer's choral and orchestral standards. Roughly chronologically arranged, the songs here (this is the second volume of Elgar songs from the same performers) date back to Elgar's 15th year with The Language of Flowers (1872), which has a pleasant Mendelssohnian tune. Many of the other songs Elgar wrote during the first part of his career were intended to make a good impression at salon concerts for well-heeled music aficionados. They are harmonically unchallenging, often on fashionable Victorian and Edwardian subjects, and always closer to Schumann than to Hugo Wolf, even in some later and more personal pieces for which Elgar wrote the texts himself under the name of Pietro d'Alba (the name of his daughter's pet rabbit). The other poets include some big names (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A.C. Swinburne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) in among some minor ones, but most of it is pleasant love poetry regardless of author. The performances are ideal, and they're enough by themselves to recommend the album to Elgar lovers. Baritone Konrad Jarnot, who is of British origin despite long residence in Germany, has diction that makes the printed texts (in English only, although this is a Dutch release) unnecessary, and both he and soprano Amanda Roocroft maintain an appealingly light, almost conversational tone and focus on Elgar's melodies rather than trying to put depths into these songs that aren't there. The intimate but perfectly clear sound is another very strong point, as is the detailed booklet essay by Lewis Foreman, also only given in English.
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Edward Elgar, Composer - Arthur Christopher Benson, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Charles D'Orléans, Lyricist - Louisa Stuart Costello, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Christina Rossetti, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Barry Pain, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - James Gates Percival, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Philip Bourke Marston, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Sally Holmes, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Adrian Ross, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Alfred Noyes, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lyricist - Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Sophie Jewett, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Charles Flavell Hayward, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Pietro d'Alba, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Pietro d'Alba, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Gilbert Parker, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - John Milton Hay, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Margery Lawrence, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Thomas Ingoldsby, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Algernon Charles Swinburne, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - John Brownlie, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Alice Elgar, Lyricist
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
Albumbeschreibung
Listeners unfamiliar with Edward Elgar's songs might not guess the composer on hearing them blind, for their idiom, internally quite consistent over a period of years, little resembles that of the composer's choral and orchestral standards. Roughly chronologically arranged, the songs here (this is the second volume of Elgar songs from the same performers) date back to Elgar's 15th year with The Language of Flowers (1872), which has a pleasant Mendelssohnian tune. Many of the other songs Elgar wrote during the first part of his career were intended to make a good impression at salon concerts for well-heeled music aficionados. They are harmonically unchallenging, often on fashionable Victorian and Edwardian subjects, and always closer to Schumann than to Hugo Wolf, even in some later and more personal pieces for which Elgar wrote the texts himself under the name of Pietro d'Alba (the name of his daughter's pet rabbit). The other poets include some big names (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A.C. Swinburne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) in among some minor ones, but most of it is pleasant love poetry regardless of author. The performances are ideal, and they're enough by themselves to recommend the album to Elgar lovers. Baritone Konrad Jarnot, who is of British origin despite long residence in Germany, has diction that makes the printed texts (in English only, although this is a Dutch release) unnecessary, and both he and soprano Amanda Roocroft maintain an appealingly light, almost conversational tone and focus on Elgar's melodies rather than trying to put depths into these songs that aren't there. The intimate but perfectly clear sound is another very strong point, as is the detailed booklet essay by Lewis Foreman, also only given in English.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:19
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Amanda Roocroft Reinild Mees Konrad Jarnot
- Composer: Edward Elgar
- Label: Channel Classics
- Genre: Klassiek
2010 Channel Classics Records 2010 Channel Classics Records
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