Elgar Sea Pictures and The Music Makers with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and choir conducted by Vasily Petrenko is released on Friday 24th April on the ONYX label and available to listen to here:
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/4Tj1RAKGvLinQVVZRfR6O7…
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/…/elgar-sea-pictures-the…/1508002132
Presto Classical https://www.prestomusic.com/…/8738516–elgar-sea-pictures-t…
The CD will also be available to purchase in Autumn 2020.
Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37
Elgar: The Music Makers, Op. 69
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1
Vasily Petrenko and the RLPO continue their critically acclaimed Elgar project with Sea Pictures and The Music Makers, with 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 however has had a more troubled history. Elgar had worked on it on and off from 1903 and it was premiered in 1912. Both words and music came in for criticism. Elgar quotes from his symphonies, and ‘Nimrod’ as well as other sources. It can be viewed in the same way as ‘Ein Heldenleben’’ though here the composer is not a hero, but a bard.