Edward Elgar - They Are At Rest (Tenebrae)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2016
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Edward Elgar In Memoriam (1857 - 1934):
THEY ARE AT REST
Sir Edward William Elgar was an English composer. He is known for such works as the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, The Dream of Gerontius, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed oratorios, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.
Elgar wrote a significant body of songs - approximately one hundred in all. Around one half of these are part songs of great delicacy, beauty and inventiveness. The majority were written for unaccompanied voices.
Elgar's 'Elegy for unaccompanied chorus' (1909) was written in response to a commission from Sir Walter Parratt for an anthem to be sung on the anniversary of Queen Victoria's death. The text is by Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890). Elgar sets stanzas 1 & 3 of Newman's poem. It was first performed at the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore (Windsor) on January 22, 1910.
They are at rest.
We may not stir the heav'n of their repose
By rude invoking voice, or prayer addrest
In waywardness to those
Who in the mountain grots of Eden lie,
And hear the fourfold river as it murmurs by.
And soothing sounds
Blending with the neighb'ring waters as they glide;
Posted along the haunted garden's bounds,
Angelic forms abide,
Echoing, as words of watch, o'er lawn and grove
The verses of that hymn which Seraphs chant above.
They are at rest.
(John Henry Newman)
Tenebrae (2011)
Conducted by Nigel Short
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Such moving beauty in music. It goes together with Nimrod and makes Elgar one of the greatest English composers.
This was sung at my mother's funeral, so it will always have special meaning for me. Tenebrae sing it with particular beauty and emotional intensity.
My condolences. This was sung first at a services honoring Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, it has a dignity fit for royalty.
This is, for me, the most beautiful choral piece ever composed. And this recording is just superb... when they sing the "wa" of "waters"... that's just the best choral sound there is. Tenebrae is just outstanding!!!!
I wanted to put this on speaker for a church my family attends last year for the 100th anniversary of the WW1 Armistice (seeing the time period it fits into), never got to share it in church.. So when I went home, I drew a tribute to the event in accompaniment to this song.
Never had I cried over a song that made me feel for 10 million men whom history remembers half of. This still gets me emotional thinking about it, but I am at peace knowing that _they are at rest._
I would love to see it. Upload a video of your drawing with this song in the background? It would be lovely. This was composed, as I understand it, for Q. Victoria's funeral. But it is a most fitting tribute to those who died so horribly in the trenches of this conflict, 'they are at rest.' If you listen very closely, with your eyes closed, you can hear the soothing sound of the gently flowing rivers. You can feel the warm air, the very soft breeze in the twilight air, moving the rushes at the edge of the sandy river bank. Listen again, more carefully this time....yes, definitely the sighing of angels, the murmured prayers in a language only they may speak. Candles glow softly in the lovely grottoes, where most fragrant holy incense burns day and night. We walk upwards, but in our path, a messenger stands. His beauty is ineffable, indescribable, with eyes of palest violet. He seems to inhabit a nimbus of softly glowing light, he is neither solid nor transparent, yet alive and animate. His wings and stainless robes of white, his downcast eyes, the sword held in alabaster hands leaning softly against a shoulder is not drawn in anger, but held in protective stance. We may not go to where these holy ones rest. We must return upon the path wherein we entered, we have no permission to enter this realm of sweet repose. This is the land of Ever-Twilight, wherein the blessed sleep.
I never thought I would come across a more wonderful recording of this music than that of Cambridge Singers - I was wrong...
You should listen to the Gabrieli Consort, also wonderful! :)
Elgar makes this poem so much better than it really is :). Sign of a true master composer.
Have listened to this on repeat for over an hour and haven't stopped yet. Very very good.
This piece is just beautiful. if I ever have a choir one day I will have them perform this.
Very nice... that last line with the stress marks on "they are at" was so nicely done!
So Beautiful!!!
Tears! Thankyou
Heavenly.
an absolutely ethereal piece
Breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you for posting.
Didn't know this before - gorgeous! Thanks for posting!
Wow! Thanks for posting!
Amazing
A very fantastic recording of a fantastic piece by a fantastic composer from a fantastic group! Bravo
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I don’t know if it’s just me but I hear part of the theme from E.V. Nimrod peeking through at 0:56 to about 1:01?
I hear the opening as being in B minor. It begins on the dominant. Now ending in F sharp major instead of B major/minor I do find strange. It almost gives the final chord on "rest" an ironic quality. As if to say, "Are they at rest?"
Hey, you who disliked this video, can you please tell us why?? I'm very curious. .....
luca baresi The playlist is titled "secular choral music" when some of the music (e.g. They are at rest by Sir Edward Elgar) is clearly sacred.
Then you should probably be disliking the playlist, rather than the video ;-)
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Elgar es un bodrio aún cantado por esta maravilla de ensamble
There should not be an A sharp right at the start in the Tenor part, we are in plagal F sharp Minor, surely...? I like the 'fourfold river' which the four-part writing portrays, although Elgar wisely only has three of those parts moving, in semiquavers, as the river, at that point. Later there are Renor A sharps adding their own special piquant flavour...