Edward Elgar
From the Bavarian Highlands
From the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27, is a work for choir and orchestra by Edward Elgar. It is a set of six choral songs Elgar wrote under the collective title Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, as a
Songs#
The six songs are: #The Dance (Sonnenbichl) – Allegretto giocoso #False Love (Wamberg) – Allegretto ma moderato #Lullaby (In Hammersbach) – Moderato #Aspiration (Bei Sankt Anton) – Adagio #On the Alm (True Love, Hoch Alp) – Allegro piacevole #The Marksmen (Bei Murnau) – Allegro vivace Numbers 1, 3 and 6 were later published as a suite for orchestra with the title Three Bavarian Dances. There have been performances and recordings of both the original version with piano and the revised version with orchestra.
- Composer
- Edward Elgar