Utwory na płycie:

• Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - I. Sea Slumber Song
• Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - II. In Haven (Capri)
• 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 our 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 the dawning
• The Music Makers, Op. 69 - VIII. All Hail! We cry to the corners
• Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1

Sea Pictures, Op. 37
The Music Makers, Op. 69

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. It is a personal work and Elgar 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 vapour, and is not; but this I saw, and knew; this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory."