Edward Elgar

Spanish Serenade op.23 / The Now op.26 No.1 / Fly Singing Bird op.26

Elgar did not compose his first symphony until 1908, at the age of fifty, although he had been planning it for many years. This work was quickly hailed as the first great English symphony and enjoyed...

Composed in 1911, this work is dedicated to the memory of Edward VII who died in 1910. The symphony reflects the abrupt change of mood that took place throughout the country upon Edward's death.

Sospiri is one of those small atmospheric studies that were numerous in almost all publishers' catalogs around 1900.

Urtextausgabe Studienpartitur zur ersten kritischen Edition, berücksichtigt sämtliche Quellen, mit neuem erweiterten Vorwort (engl./dt.)

trombone / baritone C/Bb/Eb (TC&BC) and piano