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7 ß}Ugˆùłéñðƒ7ágì 557166 bk ElgarUS 21/01/2004 01:48pm Page 8 ausgelassene Merry Doll springt lachend herum, Puppe, der Traum des Kindes und das Erwachen des DDD während in Dreaming, wiederum für gedämpfte Beginns. Streicher, das Kind sanft einschlummert. Envoy wird ELGAR 8.557166 von einer Violinkadenz eingeleitet, danach folgt die Keith Anderson Rückkehr der ernsten Puppe und nach einer Unterbrechung durch die Violine, die der fröhlichen Deutsche Fassung: Bernd Delfs The Wand of Youth Nursery Suite New Zealand Symphony Orchestra James Judd 8.557166 8 557166 bk ElgarUS 21/01/2004 01:48pm Page 2 Edward ELGAR (1857-1934) die Jugend die Erwachsenen davon zu überzeugen schließlich so weit in der Ferne, dass ich nur noch zwei Wand of Youth Suites • Dream Children • Nursery Suite versucht, dass das Märchenland mehr zu bieten hat als traurige Schemen gewahrte, die, ohne selbst zu das wirkliche Leben. Dieses frühe Material bearbeitete sprechen, seltsamerweise zu sagen schienen: „Wir sind Sir Edward Elgar occupies a strange position in his own the firm, who found in Elgar’s music something much Elgar zu zwei Suiten. Die erste wurde im Dezember nicht Alices und nicht deine Kinder, wir sind ganz und country. For many he is associated with British, or, more akin to the music of his native country. 1907 in der Londoner Queen’s Hall unter Sir Henry gar keine Kinder. Wir sind nichts; weniger als nichts more specifically, English Imperialism, epitomized in Public recognition brought Elgar many honours, his Wood uraufgeführt, die zweite unter der Leitung des und als Träume. Wir sind nur, was gewesen sein Land of Hope and Glory, a patriotic anthem now sung position sealed by the composition of music for the Komponisten im September 1909 beim Worcester- könnte.“’ Dream Children ist vermutlich eine with gusto and tongue in cheek on the last night of the coronation of King Edward VII. He was awarded Festival. Auf Teile dieser Suiten griff Elgar 1915 für Neubearbeitung von früherem Material, geschrieben, London Promenade Concerts each year. The image of honorary doctorates by universities old and new and in seine Musik zu Violet Pearns Schauspiel Starlight wie Elgar erklärte, ‚vor langer Zeit und skizziert vor an Edwardian country gentleman, with his dogs and 1904 received the accolade of a knighthood. Later Express (nach einem Roman von Algernon Blackwood) einigen Jahren’. horses is misleading. Elgar was the son of a shopkeeper, official honours included the Order of Merit in the zurück. Das erste der Idylle, ursprünglich Sorrowful Child’s in the days when to be in trade marked a man for life coronation honours of 1911 and finally, in 1931, a Die Suite Nr. 1 beginnt mit einer lebhaften Suite betitelt, eröffnet mit den sanften Klängen zweier and escape from this background earned a man the baronetcy. Acceptance, as represented by the musical Ouvertüre in der unverwechselbaren Musiksprache der in Terzparallelen geführten Klarinetten, wobei die name of counter-jumper. He married the daughter of a establishment of the country, was confirmed by the Reifezeit Elgars. Die Serenade hebt mit einer reizenden Beginntonart g-Moll in das hellere Es-Dur übergeht, retired Indian Army general, a pupil of his, nine years award of the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Klarinettenmelodie an. Das im alten Stil komponierte e- bevor die träumerische Stimmung des Beginns in his senior, and it was she who gave him the necessary Society in 1925, after an earlier award to Delius. Moll-Minuet begleitet den Auftritt der beiden Flöten-, Klarinetten- und Fagottpaaren zurückkehrt. Im support, morally and socially, that finally helped him to Elgar’s work had undergone significant changes in Erwachsenen. Einen plötzlichen Stimmungswechsel zweiten der beiden Stücke, in dem zunächst die make his way in Edwardian society. Nevertheless, the later years of the 1914-18 war, a development bringt der spritzige Sun Dance. In Fairy Pipers rahmt Klarinette die Führung übernimmt, spielen die Streicher musically Elgar was far nearer to the German romantic evident in his Cello Concerto of 1919. His wife’s death eine Melodie für zwei Klarinetten zwei Passagen für mit Sordinen. Einen Kontrast bilden die etwas composers of his time than to the developing vein of in 1920 removed a support on which he had long relied, Streicher. Es folgt die Slumber Scene für sordinierte langsameren Passagen dieses gefühlvollen Stücks, English music, with its pastoral reliance on newly and the last fourteen years of his life brought a Streicher, zwei Fagotte und Horn. Fairies and Giants, dessen elegische Stimmung an Grieg oder collected folk-song. diminishing inspiration and energy in his work as a basierend auf einer Humoreske von 1867, fand später Tschaikowsky denken lässt. Edward Elgar was born near Worcester, in the West composer, although he continued to meet demands for auch in Starlight Express Verwendung. Mit seiner Nursery Suite aus dem Jahr 1930 kehrt of England, in 1857. His father was a piano-tuner, his appearance as a conductor in both the concert-hall Der feierliche g-Moll-Marsch, mit dem die Suite Elgar zum letzten Mal in seine Kindheit zurück. Das organist, violinist and eventually a shopkeeper, and it and recording studio. He died in 1934. Nr. 2 beginnt, stand ursprünglich am Ende des dem Herzog und der Herzogin von York und ihren was from him that Elgar acquired much of his musical It was in 1907 that Elgar turned his attention to Kinderstücks. An zweiter Stelle folgt The Little Bells, Kindern, den Prinzessinnen Elizabeth und Margaret training. He at first made his living as a free-lance compositions on which he had worked in childhood, ein kleines Scherzo mit dazu passendem Klingeln eines Rose gewidmete Stück erklang erstmals bei einer im musician, teaching, playing the violin and organ, and notably music for a children’s play to be performed in Glockenspiels und einer Es-Dur-Glocke. Von ganz Mai 1931 vom Komponisten geleiteten conducting local amateur orchestras and choirs. His first the family with his brothers and sisters. The play eigenem Charme ist Moths and Butterflies, laut Elgar Schallplattenaufnahme. Das eröffnende Aubade ist ein success away from his own West Country, after earlier contrasted age and youth, with the latter trying to der älteste der Sätze. Er leitet über zum Fountain Dance sanfter Weckruf mit einem Zitat aus dem Kirchenlied abortive attempts, was in 1897 with his Imperial March, persuade the two adults that fairyland offered more than mit seinen sordinierten Streichern und geteilten 1. Hear Thy children, gentle Jesus. The Serious Doll written for the royal jubilee celebrating sixty glorious the conventional world in which they lived. From this Violinen. The Tamed Bear, im traditionellen enthält ein Flötensolo, das nach einer kurzen years of Queen Victoria. His reputation was further early material he drew two suites. The first of these had Tanzmuster daherkommend, bildet einen Kontrast zu melodischen Intervention der Oboe in immer enhanced by the so-called Enigma Variations of 1899. its première at the Queen’s Hall in London under Sir den abschließenden Wild Bears, in dem die Tiere freien ausgearbeiteter Form zurückkehrt. Busy-ness wird The oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, which followed Henry Wood in December that year and the second suite Lauf erhalten. seinem Namen gerecht, vor allem mit den in schnellem in 1900, was less successful at its first performance in was first given at the Worcester Festival in September Die beiden Sätze der Dream Children komponierte Tempo wiederholten Noten seines Nebenthemas. The Birmingham, but later became a staple element in 1908, conducted by the composer. The Wand of Youth Elgar 1902. Auch aus ihnen spricht eine Art Sehnsucht Sad Doll ist ein melancholischer Walzer, beginnend mit British choral repertoire. His publishers Novello had not provided a source in 1915 for some of the music that nach der Kindheit. Der Partitur als Motto vorangestellt sordinierten Streichern und zu einer kurzen always been particularly generous in their treatment of accompanied Violet Pearn’s play Starlight Express, ist ein Zitat aus Charles Lambs Dream-Children, a Soloviolinpassage überleitend. The Wagon (Passes) him, but he came to rely on the encouragement of the based on a novel by Algernon Blackwood. Reverie: ‚Während ich schaute, erschienen die beiden beschreibt die Ankunft eines mühsam gezogenen German-born Augustus Johannes Jaeger, a reader for Suite No.1 starts with a lively Overture in the Kinder immer verschwommener und verschwanden Karrens, der wieder in der Ferne verschwindet. Die 8.557166 2 7 8.557166 557166 bk ElgarUS 21/01/2004 01:48pm Page 6 Edward ELGAR (1857-1934) unmistakable musical language of the adult Elgar. The been a re-working of earlier material, written, as Elgar Wand of Youth Suites • Dream Children • Nursery Suite Serenade opens with an attractive clarinet melody. The explained, ‘long ago and sketched a few years back’. E minor Minuet, in the old style, marks the entrance of The first of the idylls, originally with the title Sir Edward Elgar nimmt im eigenen Land eine englischen Chorliteratur. Der Verleger Novello zeigte the two old people, the adults of the original play. The Sorrowful Child’s Suite, starts with the gentle sound of merkwürdige Position ein. Für viele ist sein Name mit sich dem Komponisten gegenüber nicht immer von mood changes at once with the spirited Sun Dance. two clarinets in thirds, the opening key of G minor dem britischen oder, genauer gesagt, dem englischen seiner großzügigen Seite, und so verließ sich Elgar Fairy Pipers has the stage direction ‘Two fairy pipers leading to a brighter E flat major, before the return of Imperialismus verbunden, der sich nirgendwo mehr und mehr auf die Unterstützung des pass in a boat, and charm them to sleep’. Here there is a the initial reverie with pairs of flutes, clarinets and patriotischer äußert als in der Hymne Land of Hope and deutschstämmigen A.E.
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