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Like most composers, Sir Edward Elgars first attempts at composition were with anthems and small chamber and piano pieces, though unlike most young composers of his day, strangely Elgar wrote few songs until his various love affairs from his mid-twenties onwards. Elgars early life as a composer was one of constantly importuning publishers to take small pieces - a situation that gradually changed in the 1890s as his early works for chorus and orchestra appeared. But it took Elgar a long time to become established, the Enigma Variations only appearing when he was 41. It is doubly interesting then to encounter so early a song as his setting of Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished, which dated from 1875 when he was just 18. It, of course, remained unpublished and unknown until recently when it was printed in the Elgar Collected Edition. In the present selection of Elgars songs we move on a dozen years for something more familiar, when the thirty-year old Elgar set Queen Marys Song, words by Tennyson. Written in June and July 1887 it was accepted by the London publishers Osborn & Tuckwood and revised for publication in 1889. It later became familiar when included by Elgar in the volume of Seven Lieder which the now celebrated composer published in 1907. In The Wind at Dawn the 30 year-old Elgar set words written by his future wife, (C. Alice Roberts it says on the printed copies), about a year before they were married. Alice was already a published poet and novelist, if a minor one. It was the first time he had set Alices verse. However, the musics tremendous character and impact was not fully revealed until he orchestrated it, in his most sumptuous mature manner, in July 1912. Here we have nothing less than what is, to all intents and purposes, a sixth Sea Picture.
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Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Edmund Waller, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Gilbert Parker, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lyricist - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Arthur Leslie Salmon, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - William Yeats, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Gilbert Parker, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 (Edward Elgar)
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Roden Noel, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Alice Elgar, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Richard Garnett, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Alice Elgar, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
2 Songs, Op. 41 (Edward Elgar)
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Arthur Christopher Benson, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Arthur Christopher Benson, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Henry King, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Amanda Roocroft, MainArtist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Frank H. Fortey, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Simon Wastell, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Alfred Tennyson, Lyricist - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Lyricist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Clifton Bingham, Lyricist - Edward Elgar, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Reinild Mees, MainArtist - Konrad Jarnot, MainArtist
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
Album review
Like most composers, Sir Edward Elgars first attempts at composition were with anthems and small chamber and piano pieces, though unlike most young composers of his day, strangely Elgar wrote few songs until his various love affairs from his mid-twenties onwards. Elgars early life as a composer was one of constantly importuning publishers to take small pieces - a situation that gradually changed in the 1890s as his early works for chorus and orchestra appeared. But it took Elgar a long time to become established, the Enigma Variations only appearing when he was 41. It is doubly interesting then to encounter so early a song as his setting of Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished, which dated from 1875 when he was just 18. It, of course, remained unpublished and unknown until recently when it was printed in the Elgar Collected Edition. In the present selection of Elgars songs we move on a dozen years for something more familiar, when the thirty-year old Elgar set Queen Marys Song, words by Tennyson. Written in June and July 1887 it was accepted by the London publishers Osborn & Tuckwood and revised for publication in 1889. It later became familiar when included by Elgar in the volume of Seven Lieder which the now celebrated composer published in 1907. In The Wind at Dawn the 30 year-old Elgar set words written by his future wife, (C. Alice Roberts it says on the printed copies), about a year before they were married. Alice was already a published poet and novelist, if a minor one. It was the first time he had set Alices verse. However, the musics tremendous character and impact was not fully revealed until he orchestrated it, in his most sumptuous mature manner, in July 1912. Here we have nothing less than what is, to all intents and purposes, a sixth Sea Picture.
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:54
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Amanda Roocroft Reinild Mees Konrad Jarnot
- Composer: Edward Elgar
- Label: Channel Classics
- Genre: Classical
2007 Channel Classics Records 2007 Channel Classics Records
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