Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester & Andrew Davis - Elgar: Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf & The Banner of St. George (2015) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester, Andrew Davis
- Title: Elgar: Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf & The Banner of St. George
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Chandos
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +booklet
- Total Time: 01:51:34
- Total Size: 1.8 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
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CD1
01. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Introduction: There Is a Wondrous Book (Chorus, Bass, Soprano, Tenor)
02. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Summon now the God of Thunder (Bass)
03. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Challenge of Thor (Chorus)
04. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: King Olaf's Return (Tenor)
05. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Tell How Olaf Bore the Cross (Bass)
06. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: King Olaf's Prows at Nidaros (Chorus)
07. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: Behold Me, My People (Tenor, Bass, Chorus)
08. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: As Leaps the Lights of Winter (Chorus, Bass)
09. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: Then o'er the Blood-stained Hog-stone (Chorus, Tenor)
10. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Now the Child of Ironbeard Dead (Bass)
11. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Gudrun (Soprano, Chorus, Tenor)
12. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: How the Wraith of Odin Old (Bass)
13. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Wraith of Odin (Chorus)
14. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Sisters, Sing Ye Now the Song (Bass)
15. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Sigrid: Sigrid Sits in Her High Abode (Chorus)
16. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Sigrid: Sigrid, Hail! With Royal Hand (Tenor, Soprano, Chorus)
CD2
01. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Hark! She Flies From Wendland Forth (Bass)
02. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Thyri (Chorus)
03. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Duet: The Gray Land Breaks to Lively Green (Soprano)
04. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Duet: Thyri, My Beloved (Tenor, Soprano)
05. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: After Queen Gunhild's Death (Chorus)
06. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Death of Olaf (Chorus)
07. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Epilogue: In the Convent of Drontheim (Chorus)
08. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Epilogue: It Is Accepted (Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)
09. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Epilogue: Stronger Than Steel (Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)
10. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: Within Sylene's walls no sound is heard
11. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: The women of Sylene rend their hair
12. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: Forth from the palace, beautiful as day
13. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: O calm your hearts
14. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 2: Without a fear beside the dragon's tarn
15. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 2: Hark! 'tis the ringing hoof of steed
16. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 2: Loud cry the people
17. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Epilogue: It comes from the misty ages
After having recorded Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius (‘Recording of the Month’ in BBC Music), Sir Andrew Davis now turns to two of the composer’s most popular early choral works: Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf and The Banner of Saint George. The recording was made soon after a successful performance, featuring the same ‘excellent Bergen Philharmonic’ and ‘outstanding’ vocal forces: the ‘imposing’ baritone Alan Opie, the ‘high, incisive tenor’ Barry Banks, singing ‘fearlessly in some quite challenging passages’, and the American soprano Emily Birsan, who sang ‘with radiant delicacy’ (The Daily Telegraph).
Dating from his years of ‘apprenticeship’, the two works shaped Elgar’s reputation as a leading orchestrator and most popular British composer of his time. The secular cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf derives from Longfellow’s epic poem about Olaf Tryggvason, who became King of Norway in 995. While the text was heavily adapted and augmented, the use of sophisticated compositional techniques, such as extensive motivic work, resulted in music of great power and solemnity.
The ballad The Banner of Saint George is based on the story of Saint George of Cappadocia, as related by the Bristol poet Shapcott Wensley. It was commissioned by Britain’s leading publisher, Novello, and composed in only one month in 1896. Elgar overcame the prescriptive nature of the words and produced a work of lasting charm, the music rising above the material to create atmosphere, momentum, and colour.
“…Here, under the experienced Elgarian hand of Sir Andrew Davis and the appropriate forces of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and three fine Norwegian choirs (with splendid diction and intonation), the sound quality is vibrant, clear and compelling, and does justice to the enthusiasm of Elgar’s score… For devotees of Elgar and of English choral music of the late Victorian era, this pulsating recording has all those emotional attributes that make the heart beat faster.” (Jeremy Dibble, Gramophone Magazine)
“…Elgar’s music crackles with confident vitality presaging great things … Davis’s expansive conducting and the excellent Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra bring out Elgar’s vivid orchestral textures … a brilliant new recording …” (Michael Scott Rohan, BBC Music Magazine)
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CD1
01. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Introduction: There Is a Wondrous Book (Chorus, Bass, Soprano, Tenor)
02. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Summon now the God of Thunder (Bass)
03. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Challenge of Thor (Chorus)
04. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: King Olaf's Return (Tenor)
05. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Tell How Olaf Bore the Cross (Bass)
06. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: King Olaf's Prows at Nidaros (Chorus)
07. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: Behold Me, My People (Tenor, Bass, Chorus)
08. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: As Leaps the Lights of Winter (Chorus, Bass)
09. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Conversion: Then o'er the Blood-stained Hog-stone (Chorus, Tenor)
10. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Now the Child of Ironbeard Dead (Bass)
11. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Gudrun (Soprano, Chorus, Tenor)
12. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: How the Wraith of Odin Old (Bass)
13. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Wraith of Odin (Chorus)
14. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Sisters, Sing Ye Now the Song (Bass)
15. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Sigrid: Sigrid Sits in Her High Abode (Chorus)
16. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Sigrid: Sigrid, Hail! With Royal Hand (Tenor, Soprano, Chorus)
CD2
01. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: Hark! She Flies From Wendland Forth (Bass)
02. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Thyri (Chorus)
03. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Duet: The Gray Land Breaks to Lively Green (Soprano)
04. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Duet: Thyri, My Beloved (Tenor, Soprano)
05. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Recitative: After Queen Gunhild's Death (Chorus)
06. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: The Death of Olaf (Chorus)
07. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Epilogue: In the Convent of Drontheim (Chorus)
08. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Epilogue: It Is Accepted (Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)
09. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer: Epilogue: Stronger Than Steel (Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)
10. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: Within Sylene's walls no sound is heard
11. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: The women of Sylene rend their hair
12. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: Forth from the palace, beautiful as day
13. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 1: O calm your hearts
14. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 2: Without a fear beside the dragon's tarn
15. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 2: Hark! 'tis the ringing hoof of steed
16. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Scene 2: Loud cry the people
17. The Banner of St. George, Op. 33: Epilogue: It comes from the misty ages
After having recorded Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius (‘Recording of the Month’ in BBC Music), Sir Andrew Davis now turns to two of the composer’s most popular early choral works: Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf and The Banner of Saint George. The recording was made soon after a successful performance, featuring the same ‘excellent Bergen Philharmonic’ and ‘outstanding’ vocal forces: the ‘imposing’ baritone Alan Opie, the ‘high, incisive tenor’ Barry Banks, singing ‘fearlessly in some quite challenging passages’, and the American soprano Emily Birsan, who sang ‘with radiant delicacy’ (The Daily Telegraph).
Dating from his years of ‘apprenticeship’, the two works shaped Elgar’s reputation as a leading orchestrator and most popular British composer of his time. The secular cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf derives from Longfellow’s epic poem about Olaf Tryggvason, who became King of Norway in 995. While the text was heavily adapted and augmented, the use of sophisticated compositional techniques, such as extensive motivic work, resulted in music of great power and solemnity.
The ballad The Banner of Saint George is based on the story of Saint George of Cappadocia, as related by the Bristol poet Shapcott Wensley. It was commissioned by Britain’s leading publisher, Novello, and composed in only one month in 1896. Elgar overcame the prescriptive nature of the words and produced a work of lasting charm, the music rising above the material to create atmosphere, momentum, and colour.
“…Here, under the experienced Elgarian hand of Sir Andrew Davis and the appropriate forces of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and three fine Norwegian choirs (with splendid diction and intonation), the sound quality is vibrant, clear and compelling, and does justice to the enthusiasm of Elgar’s score… For devotees of Elgar and of English choral music of the late Victorian era, this pulsating recording has all those emotional attributes that make the heart beat faster.” (Jeremy Dibble, Gramophone Magazine)
“…Elgar’s music crackles with confident vitality presaging great things … Davis’s expansive conducting and the excellent Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra bring out Elgar’s vivid orchestral textures … a brilliant new recording …” (Michael Scott Rohan, BBC Music Magazine)
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