Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Petrenko,Vasily Elgar: Sea Pictures The Music Makers CD

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra continue their critically acclaimed Elgar project with Sea Pictures and The Music Makers, featuring Kathryn Rudge as soloist. Sea Pictures is one of the composer's most popular works, and as an orchestral song cycle, stands alongside those by Mahler and Strauss. The Music Makers has had a more troubled history. Elgar worked on it on and off from 1903 until it's premiere in 1912. Both the words and music received criticism. But for Elgar it was a personal work. He wrote on the manuscript, "This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another. My life was as the vapor, and is not; but this I saw, and knew; this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory."

1. Elgar: Sea Pictures Op.37 - i Sea Slumber Song 2. Elgar: Sea Pictures Op.37 - ii In Haven (Capri) 3. Elgar: Sea Pictures Op.37 - iii Sabbath Morning at Sea 4. Elgar: Sea Pictures Op.37 - iv Where Corals lie 5. Elgar: Sea Pictures Op.37 - v The Swimmer 6. Elgar: The Music Makers Op.69 - i Introduction 7. Elgar: The Music Makers Op.69 - ii æWe are the Music Makers 8. Elgar: The Music Makers Op.69 - iii æWe. In the ages lying 9. Elgar: The Music Makers Op.69 - iv æA breath of our inspirationÆ 10. Elgar: The Music Makers Op.69 - v æThey had no vision amazingÆ 11. Elgar: The Music Makers Op.69 - vi æBut we 12. with our dreaming and singing 13. Elgar: The Music Makers Op.69 - vii æFor we are afar with the dawningÆ 14. Elgar: Pomp ; Circumstance March No.1 Op.39/1