HALF PRICE!!
NOW ONLY £10.00

Elgar Editions 0 9537082 5 X
Hardback - 480 pages with 93 photographs and illustrations

Inspired by the world première of Anthony Payne's elaboration of Elgar's sketches for a third symphony, Robert Anderson embarked on a voyage of rediscovery of the influences behind each of Elgar's major works. This book is the result.

Edward Elgar's music has an instinctive nobility and chivalry, equally characteristic of the man. His wide reading, interests in the world of art, visits abroad and social contacts made initially through his wife's position, reinforced the... more

256 pages, 140 illustrations; 4 maps
Elgar Editions ISBN 0 9548553 1 0 Hardback

Elgar hated America - much as he liked Americans, wrote Dr Percy Young, one of Elgar’s most respected biographers. Richard Smith sets out to explore this apparent contradiction by following the detailed itinerary of Elgar’s four visits to the USA and the friendships which he developed with many of the Americans he met, most notably Samuel Sanford and Julia Worthington.

Not surprisingly, the picture which emerges is far less clear cut than Dr Young suggests. The author concludes his profusely illustrated account with a review of... more

Elgar Editions ISBN 0 9548553 0 2 Hardback

A selection of some of the important lectures, now revised as essays, given by Elgar scholars, biographers, historians and musicologists to the Society's London branch since its formation in 1971. Contributors include:

Michael Kennedy, with an incisive comparative analysis of Elgar, Strauss and their wives
Michael Holroyd, with a stimulating assessment of Elgar's close friendship with GBS
Robert Anderson, with a valuable study of... more

Elgar Editions ISBN 0 9537082 9 2
Hardback - 192 pages

In March 2003, The Elgar Society and The RVW Society organised a joint two-day international symposium which was held at The British Library in London. Those present were treated to a fascinating and original series of presentations ranging across a number of previously neglected aspects of the two composers' lives and works:

Comparative studies of the social background to their music
Their solo songs and oratorios
Their correspondence
An exploration of the composition of two of their least known works: Vaughan Williams's... more

The apocryphal history of Gerontius is well known - how Elgar's late completion of the vocal score, the Birmingham choirmaster's untimely death and the failure of his replacement to appreciate the complexity of the work led to an under-rehearsed première which the critics panned. Fortunately, a German choirmaster in the audience recognised the work's considerable merits and arranged a subsequent performance in Dusseldorf which single-handedly rescued the work from oblivion. But how... more

During the 1890s, Edward Elgar and his wife Alice spent time in Southern Bavaria in five separate years. These holidays provided the inspiration and settings for the set of six part-songs to which Elgar gave the name 'From the Bavarian Highlands'

In the Bavarian Highlands retraces the Elgars' steps during those holidays, returning to the locations visited by the Elgars and recalling their reactions.

Peter Greaves' original research has succeeded in identifying the Garmisch guesthouse where the... more

Concerning the war I say nothing - the only thing that wrings my heart & soul is the thought of the horses - oh! my beloved animals - the men - and women can go to hell - but my horses; - I walk round & round this room cursing God for allowing dumb brutes to be tortured - let Him kill his human beings but how CAN HE?
Oh, my horses.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Great War of 1914-18 transformed the... more

Elgar Editions 0 9537082 6 8
Paperback - 96 pages with 26 photographs and illustrations

The "awful female" was architect Elisabeth Scott, great-niece of Sir Gilbert Scott, and her crime in Elgar's eyes was to design the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford, which he described as "that distressing, vulgar and abominable building".

But, great composer though he was, Elgar was also a complex and emotional character whose spoken outburst frequently camouflaged a deeper and often unrelated reason.

In this book, noted Elgarian commentator David Bury casts a perceptive eye over this and five other lesser known... more

Elgar Editions 0 9537082 7 6 Hardback

60% OFF
Now only £7.50!!!

Many towns and cities have a music society, formed to promote an annual programme of chamber concerts, but few if any can have as long and illustrious a history as the Malvern Concert Club with its unbroken lOO years of active concert promotion.

It is unique too in having been founded by Sir Edward Elgar with the active participation of his close friend Troyte Griffith who, together with Elgar's daughter Carice, provided the Club with a strong and benevolent leadership from its creation... more