Elgar: Sea Pictures Op.37, The Music Makers Op.69
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Sea Pictures Op.37, The Music Makers Op.69
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Vasily Petrenko
[ Onyx / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 24 April 2020
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Vasily Petrenko and the RLPO continue their critically acclaimed Elgar project with Sea Pictures and The Music Makers, with Kathryn Rudge as soloist. Sea Pictures is one of the composer's most popular works and as an orchestral song cycle stands alongside those by Mahler and Strauss. The Music Makers however has had a more troubled history. Elgar had worked on it on and off from 1903 and it was premiered in 1912. Both words and music came in for criticism. Elgar quotes from his symphonies, and 'Nimrod' as well as other sources. It can be viewed in the same way as 'Ein Heldenleben'' though here the composer is not a hero, but a bard. It is a personal work and Elgar wrote on the manuscript "This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another. My life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw, and knew; this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory."
"This glowingly idiomatic account of Sea Pictures can only enhance [Rudge's] growing reputation. With her sensitivity to the text, freshness of timbre and secure vocal technique, she once again proves herself a strongly intuitive interpreter of this repertoire...Under Petrenko's malleable lead the joint RLPO forces give of their fervent, articulate best...No question about it, Petrenko's abundantly communicative conception demands to be heard" Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2020
Tracks:
Sea Pictures, Op. 37
The Music Makers, Op. 69
Pomp and Circulmstance, Op. 39 / 1: March No. 1
