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Released 10/07/2020

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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.

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Elgar, Edward

5.13
Sea Pictures, Op. 37: I. Sea Slumber Song
Elgar, Edward

1.52
Sea Pictures, Op. 37: II. In Haven
Elgar, Edward

5.24
Sea Pictures, Op. 37: III. Sabbath Morning at Sea
Elgar, Edward

3.43
Sea Pictures, Op. 37: IV. Where Corals Lie
Elgar, Edward

5.50
Sea Pictures, Op. 37: V. The Swimmer
Elgar, Edward

3.19
The Music Makers, Op. 69: I. Introduction
Elgar, Edward

3.56
The Music Makers, Op. 69: II. We are the Music Makers
Elgar, Edward

3.59
The Music Makers, Op. 69: III. We, in the Ages Lying
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4.18
The Music Makers, Op. 69: IV. A Breath of Inspiration
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7.41
The Music Makers, Op. 69: V. They Had No Vision Amazing
Elgar, Edward

3.27
The Music Makers, Op. 69: VI. But We, with our Dreaming and Singing
Elgar, Edward

2.25
The Music Makers, Op. 69: VII. For We are Afar with the Dawning
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9.12
The Music Makers, Op. 69: VIII. All Hail! We Cry to the Corners
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5.40
Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op. 39: No. 1 in D Major

Vasily Petrenko

Kathryn Rudge, Mezzo-soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Elgar: Sea Pictures; The Music Makers

ONYX4206

Released 10/07/2020

Artist

Vasily Petrenko

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Elgar, Edward

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