Edward Elgar's "Go, Song of Mine" is a work of almost symphonic grandeur, composed in Careggi near Florence in the early summer of 1909.
Cultural Impact
Ralph Vaughan Williams once said that a composer only needed to compose one masterpiece, great or small, to achieve immortality, a sentiment applied to Charles Villiers Stanford's "The Bluebird."
Composition History
Benjamin Britten's "Sacred and Profane" was the third work he composed after undergoing heart surgery in 1973, written in late 1974 and early 1975.
Compositional Technique
Edward Elgar's "There is sweet music" is a tonal experiment, set simultaneously in G major and A flat.
Composition History
Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Three Shakespeare Songs" were composed after he was asked to provide a test-piece for a festival, and he sent them with the note: 'Here are three Shakespeare settings. Do what you like with them'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ralph Vaughan Williams confessed that the lines 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with a sleep' from "The Cloud-Capp'd Towers" inspired the enigmatic finale of his Sixth Symphony.
Composition History
Benjamin Britten's "Sacred and Profane" was originally written for the five skilled solo voices of Peter Pears's Wilbye Consort, but can also be sung by a five-part chorus.
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