ExclusiveElgar: In the South, Op.50 - Canto popolare (For Piano solo)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Edward Elgar: In the South, Op.50 - Canto popolare (For Piano solo - Elgar). This beautiful piece was played by Jean Dubé. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

In the South (Alassio), op. 50, is a concert overture composed by Edward Elgar during a family holiday in Italy in the winter of 1903-1904. At over twenty minutes long, it can be described as a 'tone poem'.

The work is dedicated "To my friend Leo F. Schuster".
The subtitle "Alassio" refers to the town on the Italian Riviera where Elgar stayed with his family. He wandered around during the visit, and its general location in the province of Savona became a source of inspiration.

He later recalled:

The first performance of the work was to be given by the Hallé Orchestra on 16 March 1904, the third day of an 'Elgar Festival' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It was to have been conducted by Hans Richter, but as Elgar did not have the score ready in time for Richter to study it before the performance, Elgar conducted the orchestra himself. Frank Schuster was with the Elgars at the premiere.

The video was captured by Christian Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.





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