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."

Tracklist:

Sea Pictures, Op. 37: I. Sea Slumber Song
Sea Pictures, Op. 37: II. In Haven
Sea Pictures, Op.37: III. Sabbath Morning At Sea
Sea Pictures, Op.37: IV. Where Corals Lie
Sea Pictures, Op.37: V. The Swimmer
The Music Makers, Op. 69: I. Introduction
The Music Makers, Op. 69: II. We Are The Music Makers
The Music Makers, Op.69: III. We, In The Ages Lying
The Music Makers, Op. 69: IV. A Breath Of Inspiration
The Music Makers, Op.69: V. They Had No Vision Amazing
The Music Makers, Op. 69: VI. But We, With Our Dreaming And Singing
The Music Makers, Op. 69: VII. For We Are Afar With Dreaming
The Music Makers, Op. 69: VIII. All Hail! We Cry To The Corners
Pomp And Circumstance Marches, Op. 39 No. 1

UPC: 880040420620
Label: Onyx Classics
Release Date: 8.7.20
Format: CD

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic / Vasily Petrenko - Elgar: Sea Pictures The Music Makers (CD)