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Sir Andrew Davis the Grainger Collection / Topfoto / Arenapal
elgar FALSTAFF orchestral songs ‘grania and diarmid’ incidental music and funeral march roderick williams baritone sir andrew davis Sir Edward c. 1910 Elgar, The Grainger Collection / TopFoto / ArenaPAL Sir Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934) Falstaff, Op. 68 (1913) 35:57 Symphonic Study in C minor • in c-Moll • en ut mineur for Full Orchestra Dedicated to Sir Landon Ronald 1 I Falstaff and Prince Henry. Allegro – Con anima – Animato – Allegro molto – Più animato – 3:09 2 II Eastcheap. Allegro molto – Molto grandioso e largamente – Tempo I – Poco più tranquillo – 2:54 3 Gadshill. A Tempo I – The Boar’s Head. Revelry and sleep. Allegro molto – Con anima – Più lento – Giusto, con fuoco – Poco tranquillo – Allegro molto – Poco più lento – Allegro – Poco a poco più lento – 9:21 4 Molto tranquillo – Molto più lento – 1:14 5 Dream Interlude. Poco allegretto – 2:36 6 III Falstaff’s march. Allegro – Con anima – Poco meno mosso – Animato – A tempo [Poco meno mosso] – 2:58 7 The return through Gloucestershire. [ ] – Poco sostenuto – Poco a poco più lento – 1:27 8 Interlude. Gloucestershire, Shallow’s orchard. Allegretto – 1:34 3 9 The new king. Allegro molto – The hurried ride to London. [ ] – 1:06 10 IV King Henry V’s Progress. Più moderato – Giusto – Poco più allegro – Animato – Grandioso – Animato – 3:29 11 The repudiation of Falstaff, and his death. [ ] – Poco più lento – Poco più lento – Più lento – Poco animato – Poco più mosso – A tempo giusto al fine 6:00 Songs, Op. 59 (1909 – 10)* 6:31 12 3 Oh, soft was the song. Allegro molto 1:52 13 5 Was it some golden star? Allegretto – Meno mosso – Più mosso – Meno mosso – Tempo I 2:10 14 6 Twilight. -
The Hills of Dreamland
SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934) The Hills of Dreamland SOMMCD 271-2 The Hills of Dreamland Orchestral Songs The Society Complete incidental music to Grania and Diarmid Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano† • Henk Neven baritone* ELGAR BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth conductor ORCHESTRAL SONGS CD 1 Orchestral Songs 8 Pleading, Op.48 (1908)† 4:02 Song Cycle, Op.59 (1909) Complete incidental music to 9 Follow the Colours: Marching Song for Soldiers 6:38 1 Oh, soft was the song (No.3) 2:00 *♮ * (1908; rev. for orch. 1914) GRANIA AND DIARMID 2 Was it some golden star? (No.5) 2:44 * bl 3 Twilight (No.6)* 2:50 The King’s Way (1909)† 4:28 4 The Wind at Dawn (1888; orch.1912)† 3:43 Incidental Music to Grania and Diarmid (1901) 5 The Pipes of Pan (1900; orch.1901)* 3:46 bm Incidental Music 3:38 Two Songs, Op. 60 (1909/10; orch. 1912) bn Funeral March 7:13 6 The Torch (No.1)† 3:16 bo Song: There are seven that pull the thread† 3:33 7 The River (No.2)† 5:24 Total duration: 53:30 CD 2 Elgar Society Bonus CD Nathalie de Montmollin soprano, Barry Collett piano Kathryn Rudge • Henk Neven 1 Like to the Damask Rose 3:47 5 Muleteer’s Serenade♮ 2:18 9 The River 4:22 2 The Shepherd’s Song 3:08 6 As I laye a-thynkynge 6:57 bl In the Dawn 3:11 3 Dry those fair, those crystal eyes 2:04 7 Queen Mary’s Song 3:31 bm Speak, music 2:52 BBC Concert Orchestra 4 8 The Mill Wheel: Winter♮ 2:27 The Torch 2:18 Total duration: 37:00 Barry Wordsworth ♮First recordings CD 1: Recorded at Watford Colosseum on March 21-23, 2017 Producer: Neil Varley Engineer: Marvin Ware TURNER CD 2: Recorded at Turner Sims, Southampton on November 27, 2016 plus Elgar Society Bonus CD 11 SONGS WITH PIANO SIMS Southampton Producer: Siva Oke Engineer: Paul Arden-Taylor Booklet Editor: Michael Quinn Front cover: A View of Langdale Pikes, F. -
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Monday 25, Wednesday 27 February, Friday 1, Monday 4 March, 7pm Silk Street Theatre A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten Dominic Wheeler conductor Martin Lloyd-Evans director Ruari Murchison designer Mark Jonathan lighting designer Guildhall School of Music & Drama Guildhall School Movement Founded in 1880 by the Opera Course and Dance City of London Corporation Victoria Newlyn Head of Opera Caitlin Fretwell Chairman of the Board of Governors Studies Walsh Vivienne Littlechild Dominic Wheeler Combat Principal Resident Producer Jonathan Leverett Lynne Williams Martin Lloyd-Evans Language Coaches Vice-Principal and Director of Music Coaches Emma Abbate Jonathan Vaughan Lionel Friend Florence Daguerre Alex Ingram de Hureaux Anthony Legge Matteo Dalle Fratte Please visit our website at gsmd.ac.uk (guest) Aurelia Jonvaux Michael Lloyd Johanna Mayr Elizabeth Marcus Norbert Meyn Linnhe Robertson Emanuele Moris Peter Robinson Lada Valešova Stephen Rose Elizabeth Rowe Opera Department Susanna Stranders Manager Jonathan Papp (guest) Steven Gietzen Drama Guildhall School Martin Lloyd-Evans Vocal Studies Victoria Newlyn Department Simon Cole Head of Vocal Studies Armin Zanner Deputy Head of The Guildhall School Vocal Studies is part of Culture Mile: culturemile.london Samantha Malk The Guildhall School is provided by the City of London Corporation as part of its contribution to the cultural life of London and the nation A Midsummer Night’s Dream Music by Benjamin Britten Libretto adapted from Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears -
≥ Elgar Sea Pictures Polonia Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1–5 Sir Mark Elder Alice Coote Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) Sea Pictures, Op.37 1
≥ ELGAR SEA PICTURES POLONIA POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE MARCHES 1–5 SIR MARK ELDER ALICE COOTE SIR EDWARD ELGAR (1857–1934) SEA PICTURES, OP.37 1. Sea Slumber-Song (Roden Noel) .......................................................... 5.15 2. In Haven (C. Alice Elgar) ........................................................................... 1.42 3. Sabbath Morning at Sea (Mrs Browning) ........................................ 5.47 4. Where Corals Lie (Dr Richard Garnett) ............................................. 3.57 5. The Swimmer (Adam Lindsay Gordon) .............................................5.52 ALICE COOTE MEZZO SOPRANO 6. POLONIA, OP.76 ......................................................................................13.16 POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE MARCHES, OP.39 7. No.1 in D major .............................................................................................. 6.14 8. No.2 in A minor .............................................................................................. 5.14 9. No.3 in C minor ..............................................................................................5.49 10. No.4 in G major ..............................................................................................4.52 11. No.5 in C major .............................................................................................. 6.15 TOTAL TIMING .....................................................................................................64.58 ≥ MUSIC DIRECTOR SIR MARK ELDER CBE LEADER LYN FLETCHER WWW.HALLE.CO.UK -
52183 FRMS Cover 142 17/08/2012 09:25 Page 1
4884 cover_52183 FRMS cover 142 17/08/2012 09:25 Page 1 Autumn 2012 No. 157 £1.75 Bulletin 4884 cover_52183 FRMS cover 142 17/08/2012 09:21 Page 2 NEW RELEASES THE ROMANTIC VIOLIN STEPHEN HOUGH’S CONCERTO – 13 French Album Robert Schumann A master pianist demonstrates his Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series manifold talents in this delicious continues its examination of the hidden gems selection of French music. Works by of the nineteenth century. Schumann’s late works Poulenc, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel rub for violin and orchestra had a difficult genesis shoulders with lesser-known gems by but are shown as entirely worthy of repertoire their contemporaries. status in these magnificent performances by STEPHEN HOUGH piano Anthony Marwood. ANTHONY MARWOOD violin CDA67890 BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CDA67847 DOUGLAS BOYD conductor MUSIC & POETRY FROM THIRTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE Conductus – 1 LOUIS SPOHR & GEORGE ONSLOW Expressive and beautiful thirteenth-century vocal music which represents the first Piano Sonatas experiments towards polyphony, performed according to the latest research by acknowledged This recording contains all the major works for masters of the repertoire. the piano by two composers who were born within JOHN POTTER tenor months of each other and celebrated in their day CHRISTOPHER O’GORMAN tenor but heard very little now. The music is brought to ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP tenor modern ears by Howard Shelley, whose playing is the paradigm of the Classical-Romantic style. HOWARD SHELLEY piano CDA67947 CDA67949 JOHANNES BRAHMS The Complete Songs – 4 OTTORINO RESPIGHI Graham Johnson is both mastermind and Violin Sonatas pianist in this series of Brahms’s complete A popular orchestral composer is seen in a more songs. -
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EDWARD ELGAR (1857–1934) Sea Pictures Op.37 The Music Makers Op.69 (words by Alfred O’Shaughnessy) 1 Sea Slumber Song 5.13 (words by Roden Noel) 6 Introduction 3.19 2 In Haven (Capri) 1.52 7 We are the music makers 3.56 (words by Alice Elgar) 8 We, in the ages lying 3.59 3 Sabbath Morning at Sea 5.24 (words by Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 9 A breath of our inspiration 4.18 4 Where Corals Lie 3.43 10 They had no vision amazing 7.41 (words by Richard Garnett) 11 But we, with our dreaming 5 The Swimmer 5.50 and singing 3.27 (words by Adam Lindsay Gordon) 12 For we are afar with the dawning 2.25 Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano 13 All hail! we cry to Royal Liverpool Philharmonic the corners 9.11 Orchestra & Choir Vasily Petrenko Pomp & Circumstance 14 March No.1 Op.39/1 5.40 Total timing: 66.07 Artist biographies can be found at onyxclassics.com EDWARD ELGAR Nowadays any listener can make their own analysis as the Second Symphony, Violin Sea Pictures Op.37 · The Music Makers Op.69 Concerto and a brief quotation from The Apostles are subtly used by Elgar to point a few words in the text. Otherwise, the most powerful quotations are from The Dream On 5 October 1899, the first performance of Elgar’s song cycle Sea Pictures took place in of Gerontius, the Enigma Variations and his First Symphony. The orchestral introduction Norwich. With the exception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, all the poets whose texts Elgar begins in F minor before the ‘Enigma’ theme emphasises, as Elgar explained to Newman, set in the works on this album would be considered obscure -
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations What Secret? Perusal Script Not for Performance Use Copyright © 2010 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations What Secret? Perusal script Not for performance use Copyright © 2010 Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Duplication and distribution prohibited. In addition to the orchestra and conductor: Five performers Edward Elgar, an Englishman from Worcestershire, 41 years old Actor 2 (female) playing: Caroline Alice Elgar, the composer's wife Carice Elgar, the composer's daughter Dora Penny, a young woman in her early twenties Snobbish older woman Actor 3 (male) playing: William Langland, the mediaeval poet Arthur Troyte Griffith (Ninepin), an architect in Malvern Richard Baxter Townsend, a retired adventurer William Meath Baker, a wealthy landowner George Robertson Sinclair, a cathedral organist August Jaeger (Nimrod), a German music-editor William Baker, son of William Meath Baker Old-fashioned musical journalist Pianist Narrator Page 1 of 21 ME 1 Orchestra, theme, from opening to figure 1 48" VO 1 Embedded Audio 1: distant birdsong NARRATOR The Malvern Hills... A nine-mile ridge of rock in the far west of England standing about a thousand feet above the surrounding countryside... From up here on a clear day you can see far into the distance... on one side... across the patchwork fields of Herefordshire to Wales and the Black Mountains... on another... over the river Severn... Shakespeare's beloved river Avon... and the Vale of Evesham... to the Cotswolds... Page 2 of 21 and... if you're lucky... to the north, you can just make out the ancient city of Worcesteri... and the tall square tower of its cathedral... in the shadow of which... Edward Elgar spent his childhood and his youth.. -
January – February 2018 Concert Diary
JAN/ FEB 2017/18 SEASON www.wigmore-hall.org.uk How to Book Wigmore Hall Box Office TICKETS 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five prices ranges: In Person Stalls C – M Highest price 7 days a week: 10am – 8.30pm. Stalls A – B, N – P 2nd highest price Days without an evening concert 10am – 5pm. Balcony A – D 2nd highest price No advance booking in the half hour prior to Stalls BB, CC, Q – S 3rd highest price a concert. Stalls AA, T – V 4th highest price Stalls W – X Lowest price By Telephone: 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. AA AA Days without an evening concert: AA STAGE AA AA AA 10.00am–5.00pm. BB BB There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration CC CC A A charge for each transaction. B B C C D D Online: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk E E F FRONT FRONT F STALLS STALLS 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. G G There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration H H I I charge. J J K K L L Standby Tickets M M N N Standby tickets for students, senior citizens and O O P P the unemployed are available from one hour Q Q before the performance (subject to availability) R R S S with best available seats sold at the lowest price. REAR REAR T STALLS STALLS T U U NB standby tickets are not available for V V Lunchtime and Coffee Concerts. -
Monday, November 27 | 7:30 Pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27 | 7:30 PM ALSO INSIDE This month, artists-in-residence Kontras Quartet explore the folk roots of classical music; on Live from WFMT, Kerry Frumkin welcomes the young string artists of the Dover Quartet and the acclaimed new-music ensemble eighth blackbird. Air Check Dear Member, The Guide Geoffrey Baer’s distinguished on-camera career at WTTW began in 1995 with the very first Chicago The Member Magazine for River Tour. A decade later, he took audiences back to that familiar territory to highlight big changes WTTW and WFMT Renée Crown Public Media Center that had taken place along its banks. Now, 12 years later, Geoffrey returns with an all-new tour that 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue covers more ground – all three branches of the river, in six different vessels, and the development Chicago, Illinois 60625 along the Chicago Riverwalk! Join him on WTTW11 and at wttw.com/river as Geoffrey shows us the incredible transformation that has taken place Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 over the past decade – not just in the architecture but in how Chicagoans Member and Viewer Services enjoy it. Along the way, he shares fascinating stories about the River’s history, (773) 509-1111 x 6 and introduces some memorable characters who live, work, and play there. WFMT Radio Networks (773) 279-2000 Also this month on WTTW11 and wttw.com/watch, join us for the Chicago Production Center premiere of another exciting new local film and its companion website, (773) 583-5000 Making a New American NUTCRACKER, a collaboration with The Joffrey Websites Ballet that goes behind the scenes of a new interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s wttw.com classic holiday favorite. -
Sea Pictures Falstaff
ELGAR BARENBOIM SEA PICTURES- ELINA GARANČA FALSTAFF STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN EDWARD ELGAR 1857–1934 Sea Pictures Op.37 Falstaff Op.68 Song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra Symphonic study for orchestra 1 I. Sea Slumber Song 4.41 (after Henry IV and Henry V by William Shakespeare) 2 II. In Haven (Capri) 1.45 6 I. Falstaff and Prince Henry 3.09 3 III. Sabbath Morning at Sea 6.11 7 II. Eastcheap – 2.52 4 IV. Where Corals Lie 3.58 8 Gadshill – The Boar’s Head – 8.56 5 V. The Swimmer 7.06 9 Revelry and Sleep 1.27 10 Dream Interlude: “Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page, to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk” 2.32 11 III. Falstaff’s March – 2.49 12 The Return through Gloucestershire 1.27 13 Interlude: Gloucestershire, Shallow’s Orchard 1.49 14 The New King – The Hurried Ride to London 1.03 15 IV. King Henry V’s Progress – 3.21 16 The Repudiation of Falstaff, and his Death 5.48 58.58 Live recordings ELĪNA GARANČA mezzo-soprano (1–5) STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN 2 DANIEL BARENBOIM ea Pictures was written in the summer of 1899, in the weeks One reason for its failure (as the composer’s biographer after the successful premiere of the Enigma Variations had Michael Kennedy pointed out) was the extreme diffi culty of the broughtS Elgar to national prominence. It had been commissioned instrumental writing, unsuited to “the orchestral conditions of for the Norfolk and Norwich triennial festival that October, at those days when very few rehearsals were possible”. -
How to Bewitch an Earl by Ally Broadfield
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