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Two Choral Songs, Op 73
composer
1914
author of text
translator of text
Recordings
Cover of 'Elgar: Choral Songs' (CDA67019)
Cover of 'Elgar: The Complete Choral Songs' (CDA66271/2)
Details
No 1: Love's Tempest  Silent lay the sapphire ocean
No 2: Serenade  Dreams all too brief
Two Choral Songs, Op 73
A translation of Maykov provides the words of the first Opus 73 song, Love’s Tempest. Each verse begins quietly and slowly before a great outburst allegro con fuoco, representing first a storm at sea, and then a ‘tumult’ in the poet’s heart created by a mental image of his loved one. The song’s companion, Serenade, has a repetitive refrain, ‘Dreams all too brief, Dreams without grief, Once they are broken, come not again’; ideal for a composer preoccupied with dreams, and whose precarious emotional equilibrium was being constantly threatened.

from notes by Geoffrey Hodgkins © 1998

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Details for CDA67019 track 14
Serenade
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-98-01914
Duration
1'34
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 14
    Release date: November 1998
    Deletion date: November 2006
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