Elgar: The Black Knight - Scenes From the Bavarian Highlands

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
August 4, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ELGAR, EDWARD
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Hickox
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 04, 2017
    • UPC
      095115194621
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10946 X
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Scene 1: The Tournament: T'was Pentecost, the Feast of Gladness

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    2. Scene 2: The Entry of the Black Knight: To the barrier of the fight

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    3. Scene 2: The Entry of the Black Knight: When he rode into the lists

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    4. Scene 3: The Dance: Pipe and viol call the dances

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    5. Scene 3: The Dance: Doth with her the dance begin

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    6. Scene 4: The Banquet: To the sumptuous banquet came

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    7. Scene 4: The Banquet: Twixt son and daughter all distraught

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    8. Scene 4: The Banquet: Each the father's breast embraces

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    9. Scene 4: The Banquet: Woe! The blessed children both

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    10. No. 1. The Dance [Sonnenbichl]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    11. No. 2. False Love [Wamberg]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

    12. No. 3. Lullaby [In Hammersbach]

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

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

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

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

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox

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

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Richard Hickox


Richard Hickox brought these two neglected works into the record catalogue to criticla acclaim. In an Editor's Choice review in 1996 - the year of its release - Gramophone stated: ''Elgar completed The Black Knight in 1893 and it provided him with his first big success. The text tells of a sinister, unnamed ''Prince of mighty sway'', whose appearance at the King's court during the feast of Pentecost has disastrous consequences. Elgar's score boasts much attractive invention, some of it strikingly eloquent and prescient of greater offerings to come. The choral writing is always effective, the orchestration already vivid and assured. Richard Hickox's performance has great bloom and spaciousness. Similarly, in the tuneful, vernally fresh Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, Hickox and his colleagues respond with comendable spirit and pleasing polish. Typical of Chandos, the recording is bright and clear, tonally beyond reproach and with just the right balance between choir and orchestra.''