Carissima

Composer: ELGAR, Sir Edward
  • Elgar composed this piece for small orchestra in 1913. He conducted the premiere at a recording session in Middlesex in 1914.1
  • This was the first of many collaborations between Elgar and record label HWV (which later became EMI).2
    • Carissima was the perfect length to fit on the 12-inch shellac discs HWV was using, which could store 4 minutes of material.3
  • This is one of many pieces which Elgar based on ideas from the music sketchbooks.4 in which he recorded his ideas as a boy.5

Sources

  1. Diana McVeagh, “Elgar, Sir Edward,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed September 18, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000008709.
  2. “Elgar – His Music: Other Music for Small Orchestra,” Elgar Society, accessed September 19, 2019, http://www.elgar.org/3smalls.htm.
  3. Timothy Day, A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 7, 86.
  4. “Elgar – His Music: Other Music for Small Orchestra,” Elgar Society.
  5. McVeagh, “Elgar, Sir Edward,” Grove Music Online.

Cut IDs

16964 17772 43801