Format : Vocal Score
In addition to the many large-scale works for which he is celebrated Elgar also wrote a plethora of songs among them approximately fifty part-songs. Fly Singing Bird is one part of a two-part work that sets the poetry of the composer’s wife. Alice Elgar had published an epic poem Isabel Trevithoe a Cornish love story from which the words of Fly Singing Bird were excerpted.Fly Singing Bird is a delightful early Elgar work that has been popular with Choral concerts and festivals.
