in Choir & Organ (May, 2015)
As if Andrew Davis hadn’t done enough to promote Elgar through his 70th-birthday public re-evaluations of Gerontius, The Apostles et Le Kingdom, now he has turned his attention to King Olaf, premiered in 1896 and – with The Light of Life et Caractacus – the most important of Elgar’s compositions before the Enigma Variations of 1899. inheriting an enthusiasm for the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from his mother, Elgar had already set some of it to music. King Olaf, which was already in his mind, fitted the bill for a choral work commissioned for the North Staffordshire Music Festival. Elgar recruited retired civil servant Henry Arbuthnot Acworth …
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E. Elgar: King Olaf – Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Davis
Szene aus der Sage des Königs Olaf op. 30 (Kantate)
Soli und Chor: There is […] a wondrous book: Andante
Rezitativ: Summon now the God of Thunder: Allegro con fuoco – Poco meno mosso –
Chor: I am the God Thor: Moderato – Molto maestoso
Solo: And King Olaf heard the cry: Allegro – (keine Angaben) – Allegro – Allegro molto – Tranquillo – Più mosso – …
Rezitativ: Tell how Olaf bore the cross: Allegro moderato – Meno mosso – Più lento –
Chor: King Olaf’s prows at Nidaros: Allegro moderato – Poco più mosso – L’istesso tempo – (keine Angaben) –
Solo: Behold me, my people, and answer and say: Allegro – Più mosso – L’istesso tempo – Più mosso – (keine Angaben) –
Chor: As leap the lights of winter: Allegro con fuoco – Moderato – Lento – (keine Angaben) – Animato –
Chor: Then o’er the blood-stained Horg-stone: L’istesso tempo – Lento – Allegretto – (keine Angaben) – Allargando al…
Rezitativ: Now the child of Ironbeard dead: Andantino
Solo: On King Olaf’s bridal night: Adagio – Più mosso – Tempo 1 – Poco più mosso – (Tempo 1) – Allegro – Allegro…
Rezitativ: How the wraith of Odin old: Allegro –
Chor: The guests were loud, the ale was strong: Allegro – L’istesso tempo – Molto sostenuto – (Tempo 1) –
Rezitativ: Sisters, sing ye now the song: Allegro –
Chor: Sigrid sits in her high abode: Allegro –
Solo: Sigrid, hail! With royal hand: Meno mosso – Più animato – Più animato – Allegro con fuoco – (keine Angaben) – …
Rezitativ: Hark! She flies from Wendland forth: Allegretto –
Chor: A little bird in the air: Allegro –
Duett: The gray land breaks to lively green: Allegro – Tranquillo –
Solo: Thyri, my beloved: Moderato – (keine Angaben) – Più tranquillo – Più mosso – Lento – (keine Angaben)
Choral-Rezitativ: After Queen Gunhild’s death: Allegro moderato –
Chor: King Olaf’s dragons take the sea: Allegro – Vivace – Più mosso – Poco a poco meno mosso –
Soli und Chor – Rezitativ: In the convent of Drontheim: Allegro –
Soli und Chor: It is accepted: Andante – (keine Angaben) –
Soli und Chor: Stronger than steel: Più mosso – Animato – Andante (Tempo 1)
Die Flagge des Heiligen Georgs (Ballade für Chor und Orchester)
Within Sylenë’s walls no sound is heard: Andantino – Animato – Tempo 1 –
The women of Sylenë rend their hair: Allegretto – Andantino –
Forth from the palace, beautiful as day: Allegretto – Più mosso – Animato – (keine Angaben) – A tempo (Più mosso) – …
O calm your hearts, o still your fears: Allegro –
Without a fear beside the dragon’s tarn: Andante – Tranquillo – L’istesso tempo –
Hark! ‘Tis the ringing hoof of steed: Allegro – (keine Angaben) –
Loud cry the people; Haste! The dragon comes! […]: Tempo 1 – L’istesso tempo – Andantino – Animato – Più lento –
It comes from the misty ages: Maestoso, alla marcia – Largamente e grandioso
Andrew Sir Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Davis
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