Elgar: Part-Songs
$25.00
Out of Stock2-4 weeks add to cart
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Part-Songs
Cambridge University Chamber Choir / Christopher Robinson / with Iain Farrington (piano)
[ Naxos English Choral Music / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 10 April 2008
This item is currently out of stock. We expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 4 weeks from when you place your order.
"Highly recommended!"
(ClassicsToday.com 9/9 April 2008)
When Elgar's popular part-song My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land was published in 1890, a ready market for such pieces had been established by the competition festival movement, itself fuelled by the enormous growth in the number of choirs. This wide-ranging selection features several of Elgar's finest songs, including his best-known work in the genre As Torrents in Summer, which boasts a memorable tune, the highly original and chromatic Owls, probably the strangest that Elgar ever set, and the ambitious and bitonal There is Sweet Music which the composer himself described as 'a clinker, and the best I have done'.
Tracks:
4 Choral songs, Op. 53
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer
The Prince of Sleep
2 Choral songs, Op. 71
My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land, Op. 18, No. 3
Death on the Hills, Op. 72
2 Choral songs, Op. 73
Evening Scene
Go, Song of Mine, Op. 57
Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27
