{"product_id":"elgar-the-dream-of-gerontius-second-edition-elgar","title":"Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Second Edition)","description":"\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposer\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/edward-elgar\"\u003eEdward Elgar (1857-1934)\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEditor\u003c\/strong\u003e: Iain Farrington\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Full Score – Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"binding\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-barcode\"\u003e9781904856061\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"book-width\"\u003e11.2\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan class=\"book-length\"\u003e17.1\u003c\/span\u003e inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli class=\"book-pages hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e: None\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c!-- split --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\"\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"one-half columns\"\u003e \u003ch4\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"feature_divider\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGerontius\u003c\/em\u003e itself needs no introduction, among the best known and extensively scutinised of all of Elgar's works, so why publish a second edition?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first edition, published in 1982, was only the second volume to appear in the Complete Edition, before the series had developed a house style and attained an equilibrium. The preliminaries to the first edition are rudimentary: a single-page Foreword, a Commentary listing containing only eight entries, two illustrations and no listing or description of sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new and significantly improved second edition is an appropriate way of marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the first edition, not just commemorating the date of publication but also demonstrating the lengthy range of improvements that have been gradually incorporated in Elgar Complete Edition volumes over the past years. These include not only an ability to draw upon a much greater range of sources, including sketches and proofs initially collected by Jaeger and acquired by the British Library in 1997, but:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea fully re-originated full score;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe full text of Cardinal Newman's poem from which Elgar created his libretto, highlighted to distinguish those sections retained and rejected by Elgar and also containing the annotations added by General Gordon to his published copy of the poem found in his possession at the time of his death in Khartoum;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJaeger's thematic analysis of Elgar's work including 76 musical examples and Jaeger's labelling of the themes, commissioned by the Birmingham Festival Committee and published in the Festival programme;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ean extensive 18-page Foreword covering the historical development of the work from Newman's writing of the poem, through the Birmingham Festival's commissioning and Elgar's composition of the work, and the difficult premère to March 1903, where a succession of ten performances confirms the work's acceptance. Much of the engaging correspondence between Elgar and Jaeger is reproduced in detail, and a number of readily accepted premises are challenged.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe volume also contains 8 pages of illustrations, including facsimiles of Elgar's short-score setting of the four-line passage beginning ‘I had a dream' which he omitted from the completed work;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand comes complete with detailed descriptions of the numerous sources (including Elgar's annotations to his manuscript full score for the performance of the Prelude and Angel's Farewell as an orchestral suite) and a full Commentary listing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Elgar Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43198235279439,"sku":"EWE06","price":162.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/1828\/files\/8a6a556014e4aa3ab99d532d5d357c95.jpg?v=1750117479","url":"https:\/\/www.ficksmusic.com\/es\/products\/elgar-the-dream-of-gerontius-second-edition-elgar","provider":"Ficks Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}