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Brahms and Elgar

Liebeslieder Waltzes and From the Bavarian Highlands

0	BUCKINGHAM: Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul
P	Saturday 25th March, 2023
N	7:00pm

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Brahms’s Liebeslieder waltzes capitalized upon two musical trends of the 1800s: dances to be played by piano duet (that is, one piano and two players) and vocal pieces on the subject of love. In both cases, the pieces were to be light and unpretentious, designed for the enjoyment of talented amateurs, rather than concert artists.

'From the Bavarian Highlands' is a set of six choral songs Elgar wrote under acollective title as a remembrance of a holiday the Elgars had enjoyed in Upper Bavaria, mostly at Garmisch, in the autumn of 1894. The song lyrics were adapted to Elgar's music by the composer's wife Alice with words adapting folk song and dance. Alice gave the songs sub-titles in recollection of favourite places visited during the holiday. It was originally arranged with piano.