Elgar: Partsongs - From The Bavarian Highlands / Hanft, Arman, Bavarian Radio Chorus

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Label
BR Klassik
Release Date
January 15, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ELGAR, EDWARD
    • PERFORMER
      Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Arman
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 15, 2021
    • UPC
      4035719005226
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRK900522
    • LABEL
      BR Klassik
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. The Dance [Sonnenbichl]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    2. No. 2. False Love [Wamberg]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    3. No. 3. Lullaby [In Hammersbach]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    4. No. 4. Aspiration [Bei Sankt Anton]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    5. No. 5. On the Alm [Hoch Alp]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    6. No. 6. The Marksmen [Bei Murnau]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    7. No. 1. The Snow

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Radosław Szulc, Julita Smoleń, Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    8. No. 2. Fly, Singing Bird

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Radosław Szulc, Julita Smoleń, Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    9. No. 1. Yea, cast me from Heights of the Mountains

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: male section Bavarian Radio Chorus

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    10. No. 2. Whether I Find Thee

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: male section Bavarian Radio Chorus

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    11. No. 3. After many a Dusty Mile

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: male section Bavarian Radio Chorus

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    12. No. 4. It's oh! to be a Wild Wind

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: male section Bavarian Radio Chorus

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    13. No. 5. Feasting I Watch

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: male section Bavarian Radio Chorus

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    14. Go, Song of Mine, Op. 57

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    15. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: Epilogue: As Torrents in Summer (version for female choir and piano)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    16. Spanish Serenade (Stars of the Summer Night), Op. 23 (version for female choir, 2 violins and piano)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Radosław Szulc, Julita Smoleń, Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    17. The Reveille, Op. 54

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: male section Bavarian Radio Chorus

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    18. They Are at Rest

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    19. Weary Wind of the West (version for female choir and piano)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Performer: Max Hanft

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    20. The Prince of Sleep

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman


The British composer Edward Elgar wrote a great deal more than just his “Pomp & Circumstance” marches: his highly diverse oeuvre encompasses symphonies, concertos, chamber works, piano music and numerous choral works (oratorios, cantatas and partsongs). On this release, partsongs by Elgar can be heard with and without accompaniment as part of a representative selection of live and studio recordings. The album begins with the song cycle “From the Bavarian Highlands” op. 27; its six cheerful numbers were written while Elgar and his wife were on holiday in Garmisch in 1895. Alice Elgar had sketched verses from Bavarian folk melodies, and Upper Bavarian songs and dances can be heard in her husband’s settings. These were happy memories of carefree holidays in a region rich in music and full of fine landscapes. The Bavarian Radio Chorus, conducted by Howard Arman, sings the songs in their original version with piano accompaniment (the orchestral version came later). As a composer of English-language choral songs, Elgar is still little-known on the European mainland; in the United Kingdom, however, the situation is very different. The country has long had a lively choral scene, focusing primarily on English music – from Purcell and Handel to Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford and Elgar, all the way to Benjamin Britten and today’s contemporary composers. The program on this release has been compiled and conducted by the Englishman Howard Arman, one of today’s most knowledgeable experts on British choral music and artistic director of the Bavarian Radio Chorus, and these recordings should do much to boost the popularity of this highly appealing music on the European mainland as well.