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My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land, Op 18 No 3
composer
1890
author of text
Recordings
Cover of 'All in the April evening' (CDH55243)
All in the April evening
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CDH55243  Helios (Hyperion's budget label)  
Cover of 'Elgar: Choral Songs' (CDA67019)
Cover of 'Elgar: The Complete Choral Songs' (CDA66271/2)
Details
Track 4 on CDA66271/2 CD1 [4'38] 2CDs Archive Service Only
Track 3 on CDA67019 [4'06] Archive Service Only
Track 17 on CDH55243 [3'45] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land, Op 18 No 3
Elgar’s first published part-song dates from 1890 and marks the beginning of his association with the publishers Novello. It was a cautious and rather inauspicious start from their point of view; they offered no money to the composer, merely a hundred copies in lieu of copyright. When My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land first appeared, it was said to be ‘crude, ill-written for the voice, laid out without knowledge of the capabilities of the human voice &c &c!’, as Elgar told his friend Jaeger many years later. Yet it is a fine song, despite a conventional setting. In the third verse the melody is given to Soprano and Tenor I, while the other parts sing the words to a repetitive, rhythmic motif – an ‘accompaniment’ device Elgar later used in two of his greatest songs, Death on the Hills and Serenade. One might also note in passing that Lang’s poem has the theme – popular in Victorian times and frequently used by Elgar – of youthful love, often unfulfilled and/or brought to an end by premature death.

from notes by Geoffrey Hodgkins © 1998

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Details for CDA67019 track 3
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-98-01903
Duration
4'06
Recording date
16 April 1998
Recording venue
St Alban's Church, Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Andrew Keener
Recording engineer
Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Hyperion usage
  1. Elgar: Choral Songs (CDA67019)
    Disc 1 Track 3
    Release date: November 1998
    Deletion date: November 2006
    Archive Service Only
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