Speak, Music!

Speak, Music!
Copertina
Musica
Compositore	Edward Elgar
Tonalità	la maggiore
Tipo di composizione	Canzone
Numero d'opera	Op.41, n.2
Epoca di composizione	1901
Prima esecuzione	26 ottobre 1901, Londra, Queen's Hall
Pubblicazione	1902 - Londra: Boosey & Co.
Organico	voce, pianoforte
Testo inglese
Autore	Arthur Christopher Benson
Epoca	1900
Manuale

Speak, Music! è una canzone scritta dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar nel 1901 come Op. 41, n. 2.

Storia

Le parole sono tratte da The Song dalla poesia The Professor di Arthur Christopher Benson.^[1] La dedicò a 'Mrs. Edward Speyer, Ridgehurst'.^[2]

Più o meno nello stesso periodo Elgar scrisse la canzone In the Dawn, come la sua Op. 41, n. 1, con parole della stessa poesia. Le due canzoni furono eseguite per la prima volta alla Queen's Hall il 26 ottobre 1901.

Versi

«SPEAK, MUSIC

Speak, speak, music, and bring to me
Fancies too fleet for me,
Sweetness too sweet for me,
Wake, wake, voices, and sing to me,

Sing to me tenderly; bid me rest.

Rest, Rest! ah, I am fain of it!
Die, Hope! small was my gain of it!

Song, [song] take thy parable,

Whisper, whisper that all is well,

Say, say that there tarrieth
Something, something more true than death.

Waiting to smile for me; bright and blest.

Thrill, thrill, string: echo and play for me
All, all that the poet, the priest cannot say for me;
Soar, voice, soar, heavenwards, and pray for me,

Wondering, wandering; bid me rest.»

Incisioni

Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar comprende "Speak, Music" eseguita da Mark Wilde (tenore), con David Owen Norris (piano).
Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Mees (piano)
The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (soprano) con Malcolm Martineau (piano), al Southlands College, Londra, aprile 1999

Note

^ A. C. Benson, "The Professor and Other Poems", London and New York, John Lane, 1900
^ Mrs. Edward Speyer was Antonia Kufferath, the Belgian-born soprano, daughter of Alice Elgar's old piano teacher Ferdinand Kufferath and wife of Elgar's friend the wealthy banker Edward Speyer. 'Ridgehurst' was their home at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Not to be confused with Sir Edgar Speyer and Lady Speyer (the latter a professional violinist Leonora von Stosch)

Bibliografia

Banfield, Stephen, Sensibility and English Song: Critical studies of the early 20th century (Cambridge University Press, 1985) ISBN 0-521-37944-X
Michael Kennedy, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0-19-315414-5

Collegamenti esterni

(EN) Spartiti o libretti di Speak, Music!, su International Music Score Library Project, Project Petrucci LLC.

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