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Wand of Youth
The Wand of Youth Suites 1 & 2 are suites for full orchestra by the English composer Edward Elgar. The title given them by Elgar was, in full: :''The Wand of Youth''
:Music to a Child's Play
: Op. 1A
:and Op. 1B
:
Suite 1 is dedicated 'To my friend C. Lee Williams', former organist of Gloucester Cathedral. nicknamed the 'Father of the Three Choirs'. Suite 2 is dedicated 'To Hubert A. Leicester, Worcester', a boyhood friend of the composer. More »
The Apostles (Elgar)
''The Apostles'', op. 49, is an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was first performed on October 14, 1903. More »
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
The ''Pomp and Circumstance'' Marches, op. 39 are a series of five Marches for orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. The title is taken from Act III of Shakespeare's ''Othello'': :"Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, :The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, :The royal banner, and all quality, :Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!". The best known is the ''Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1'', and in most musical contexts ''Pomp and Circumstance'' refers to... More »
The Kingdom (Elgar)
The Kingdom, op. 51, is an oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra composed by Edward Elgar. It was first performed on October 3, 1906. More »
Land of Hope and Glory
''Land of Hope and Glory'' is an English patriotic song, found to an extent throughout the Commonwealth Realms. It is particularly noted for being played on the occasion of the Last Night of the Proms amidst much flag-waving, and for having long been seen as the unofficial anthem of the Conservative Party. The tune for the song was taken from the first of Edward Elgar's ''Pomp and Circumstance'' marches, which is used as a graduation march in American universities. More »
Piano Quintet in A minor (Elgar)
The Quintet in A minor for Piano and String Quartet, Op 84 is a chamber work by Edward Elgar. He worked on the Quintet and two other major chamber pieces in the summer of 1918 while staying at Brinkwells in Sussex. W H Reed considered that all three were ‘influenced by the quiet and peaceful surroundings during that wonderful summer’. The Quintet was first performed on 21 May 1919, by the pianist William Murdoch, the violinists Albert Sammons and W H Reed, the violist Raymond Jeremy and the... More »
The Swimmer (poem)
The Swimmer is a poem by the Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. The poem was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the fifth song in his song cycle ''Sea Pictures''. Square brackets indicate text omitted in the song. ''Italics'' indicate text repeated in the song. The Swimmer With short, sharp, violent lights made vivid,
To southward far as the sight can roam,
Only the swirl of the surges livid,
The seas that climb and the surfs that comb.
Only the crag and the cliff... More »
Organ Sonata (Elgar)
The Sonata in G major, Op 28 is Sir Edward Elgar's first sonata composed for the organ. It also exists in an arrangement for full orchestra made after Elgar's death. There are four movements: :I. Allegro maestoso
:II. Allegretto
:III. Andanto espressivo
:IV. Presto
The genesis of the work was a request to Elgar to write an organ voluntary for a convention of American organists in the English city of Worcester in 1895. Instead, Elgar decided on a four movement sonata... More »
Sabbath Morning at Sea
"Sabbath Morning at Sea" is a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem was set to music as the third song of ''Sea Pictures'' composed by Sir Edward Elgar. The ship went on with solemn face;
To meet the darkness on the deep,
The solemn ship went onward.
I bowed down weary in the place;
For parting tears and present sleep
Had weighed mine eyelids downward. The new sight, the new wondrous sight!
The waters around me, turbulent,
The skies, impassive... More »
In the South (Alassio)
''In the South '', Op.50 is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar during a family holiday in Italy in the winter of 1903 to 1904. The subtitle "Alassio" is a town on the Italian Riviera where Elgar and his family stayed. He strolled around during the visit, while buildings, landscape and history of the town provided him the sources of inspiration. He later recalled: :Then in a flash, it all came to me - streams, flowers, hills; the distant snow mountains in one direction and the blue... More »
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