Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf

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SKU: MUSNOV950513

Category: Bass Voice, SATB and Orchestra

Tags: Novello and Co

Description

The plot of Elgar’s King Olaf cantata has been criticized for it lack of cohesion, but the musical settings contain power, majesty, stirring melodies, joyous lyricism and a finale of immense proportion and emotional effect. As alesser work of a great composer, it certainly bears study. As a work on its own, King Olaf rewards performers and listeners with superb moments. A final a capella Chorus, As Torrents In Summer,is frequently performed on itsown.Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf is widely considered to be the best of Elgar’s pre-Enigma compositions. He was commissioned to write this work for the North Staffordshire Music Festival in 1896, and he chose toadaptsections of Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn with the assistance of his neighbour, the translator H A Acworth. Acworth reduced the length of Longfellow’s twenty-two sections to just eight with added material.

Additional information

Weight	630 g
Composer	Edward Elgar
Publisher	Novello and Co
Instrumentation	Bass Voice, SATB and Orchestra
Product Type	Book [Softcover]
Pages	186
Edition Number	NOV950513