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By Charles Edward McGuire. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2002. [xvi, 339 p. ISBN 0-7546-0271-0. $79.95.] Music examples, charts, bibliography, index.
Edward Elgar's reputation as the first British composer of international stature since Henry Purcell rests more on his instrumental music than on his choral music. Generally speaking, it is the "Enigma" Variations and the symphonies, the concertos and chamber music--and not the oratorios and cantatas--that are most prominently featured on radio and concert programs and in written commentaries about the composer.
How fine it is, then, to have a book devoted solely to the choral music, especially one that stresses the centrality of these works to Elgar's artistic achievement. Charles McGuire's focus is on the four sacred oratorios Elgar produced just as he was emerging on the international scene--The Light of Life (1896), The Dream of Gerontius (1900), The Apostles (1903), and The Kingdom (1906). The emphasis is well chosen, for the oratorios offer some...
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