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Elgar Birthday Concert
We celebrate Elgar 's birthday with a tribute in song. Also featuring two of his near-contemporaries, whose intensely imaginative music has not always enjoyed the same appreciation. Discover the part-songs of Rebecca Clarke and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, hailed by Elgar as “the cleverest fellow..."
Time & Location
Jun 02, 2023, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
St. Martin in the Fields, London, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ, UK
About the Event
The Carice Singers
George Parris, conductor
Elgar - Love’s Tempest
Clarke - My spirit like a charmed bark doth float
Coleridge-Taylor - By the lone sea-shore
Clarke - Philomela
Elgar - 5 Part-songs from the Greek Anthology
Coleridge-Taylor - Summer is gone
Elgar - My love dwelt in a northern land
Interval
Elgar - Death on the hills
Coleridge-Taylor - Dead in the Sierras
Coleridge-Taylor - The fair at Almachara
Clarke - Music, when soft voices die
Elgar - 2 Partsongs, Op. 71
Coleridge-Taylor - All my stars forsake me
Coleridge-Taylor - The lee-shore
Nearest Stations: Charring Cross/Leicester Square