Edward Elgar
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf
Edward Elgar
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf
- Formation Chœur mixte (SATB) et Orchestre
- Compositeur Edward Elgar
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Niveau de difficulté
- Édition Partition
- Maison d’Édition Novello Publishing
- N ° de commande NOV950513
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Description:
The plot of Elgar's King Olaf cantata has been criticized for it lack of cohesion, but the musical settings contain power, majesty, stirring melodies, joyous lyricism and a finale of immense proportion and emotional effect. As alesser work of a great composer, it certainly bears study. As a work on its own, King Olaf rewards performers and listeners with superb moments. A final a capella Chorus, As Torrents In Summer, is frequently performed on itsown. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf is widely considered to be the best of Elgar's pre-Enigma compositions. He was commissioned to write this work for the North Staffordshire Music Festival in 1896, and he chose toadaptsections of Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn with the assistance of his neighbour, the translator H A Acworth. Acworth reduced the length of Longfellow's twenty-two sections to just eight with added material.