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Elgar Reimagined / Wallfisch, Woods, English String Orchestra
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Elgar Reimagined / Wallfisch, Woods, English String Orchestra

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Composer
Edward Elgar
Artist
Raphael Wallfisch, Kenneth Woods
Format
CD
Label
Lyrita
Released
Feb 04, 2022
Catalog #
SRCD394
UPC
5020926039422

About

“Although Elgar was a highly accomplished violinist, he wrote no mature string chamber music until, at the end of his creative life, he produced three major works: a violin sonata, a piano quintet and a string quartet. Both outer movements of the quartet are full of mercurial changes of mood; both end at the last minute in the major, the finale with an exhilarating display of renewed energy. In between comes an intermezzo marked ‘Piacevole’, ‘peacefully’ – a pastoral C major interlude between the two stormy outer movements. Alice Elgar was particularly fond of this movement, and it was played at her funeral in 1920. In 2002, I arranged the slow movement for string orchestra and George Vass conducted it that year at the Deal Festival. The remainder of the Quartet was orchestrated in 2010. The substantial part of the arrangement is the addition of a double bass part, but I have also thickened the upper parts in a number of places. At two points in the first movement and at the end of the Andante I have preserved the original writing for solo strings. The arrangement was commissioned by the John S. Cohen Foundation.” (David Matthews) “In 2019 English Symphony Orchestra were asked to give the official 100th Anniversary performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto. It was at that concert that Wallfisch met composer Donald Fraser, whose choral arrangement of Elgar’s Sea Pictures was being featured on the same concert. Wallfisch suggested that perhaps Fraser arranged and orchestrate a few of Elgar’s shorter works for cello and strings, and over the following year the project expanded in scope to finally comprise the eleven-movement suite heard here.” (Kenneth Woods)

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro moderato 08:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    08:48
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  2. 2 II. Piacevole (poco Andante) 10:52
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Piacevole (poco Andante)
    Duration
    10:52
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  3. 3 III. Finale – Allegro molto 09:04
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Finale – Allegro molto
    Duration
    09:04
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  4. 4 Chanson de matin, Op. 15, No. 2 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 03:08
    Track
    4
    Title
    Chanson de matin, Op. 15, No. 2 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  5. 5 Chanson de nuit, Op. 15, No. 1 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 04:05
    Track
    5
    Title
    Chanson de nuit, Op. 15, No. 1 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  6. 6 The Wand of Youth Suite No. 2, Op. 1b: VI. The Wild Bears (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 02:38
    Track
    6
    Title
    The Wand of Youth Suite No. 2, Op. 1b: VI. The Wild Bears (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  7. 7 Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma": Variation 9: Nimrod (A. J. Jaeger) - (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 03:52
    Track
    7
    Title
    Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma": Variation 9: Nimrod (A. J. Jaeger) - (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  8. 8 Romance, Op. 62 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 05:56
    Track
    8
    Title
    Romance, Op. 62 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    05:56
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  9. 9 Sospiri, Op. 70 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 04:49
    Track
    9
    Title
    Sospiri, Op. 70 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    04:49
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  10. 10 3 Characteristic Pieces, Op. 10: No. 1. Mazurka (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 03:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    3 Characteristic Pieces, Op. 10: No. 1. Mazurka (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  11. 11 Pleading, Op. 48 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 03:07
    Track
    11
    Title
    Pleading, Op. 48 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  12. 12 In Moonlight (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 03:16
    Track
    12
    Title
    In Moonlight (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  13. 13 Salut d'amour (Liebesgrüss), Op. 12 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 03:05
    Track
    13
    Title
    Salut d'amour (Liebesgrüss), Op. 12 (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods
  14. 14 Adieu (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra) 02:33
    Track
    14
    Title
    Adieu (arr. D. Fraser for cello and string orchestra)
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    English String Orchestra
    Conductor
    Kenneth Woods