Two inspiring works written by Edward Elgar and arranged for Viola by Alan Arnold with simple piano accompaniment.

Edward Elgar composa son Liebesgruß en l?honneur de sa fiancée Caroline Alice Roberts. Il intitula ainsi cette composition parce que Miss Roberts parlait allemand couramment. L?oeuvre fut publiée un an après. Les premières éditions étaient respectivement pour violon et piano piano solo violoncelle et piano et orchestre de chambre. L?édition originale n?ayant pas eu un très grand succès commercial il changea le titre en Salut d?Amour pensant qu?un titre français stimulerait les ventes non seulement en France mais aussi dans toute l?Europe? Cette pépite musicale a été admirablement arrangée pour orchestre d?harmonie par Georges Moreau.

Vincent Beer-Demander. Par ELGAR EDWARD. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Mandoline et Piano

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) was an American pianist and composer in the Romantic style. By far and away his most popular work today is To A Wild Rose a beautifully simple and reflective piece for solo Piano taken from his Woodland Sketches (Op. 51). This little gem deserves to be better known and will enrich the repertoire of any pianist whether professional or recreational.

Edward Gregson completed Tributes in the summer of 2010. Lasting some 16 minutes there are five pieces in the set each dedicated to a different composer and a different clarinettist (with whom Gregson had long musical associations). Each of the dedicatee composers wrote wonderfully for the Clarinet and as a tribute to them Gregson tried to invade indeed imitate their stylistic worlds in these pieces.They are as follows:To Francis Poulenc (for Emma Johnson) a rather dreamy toccata lyrical in feel but interrupted by typically quirky and disruptive rhythmic episodes.To Gerald Finzi (forJohn Bradbury) slow and lyrical with long melodic arches.To Igor Stravinsky (for Linda Merrick) asymmetric rhythms dominate with wide leaps in the solo line and bitonal harmony on the Piano.To Olivier Messiaen (for Nicholas Cox) based on the ravishing slow movement for Cello in his Quartet for the End of Time a seamless melody is woven around ever-changing repeated chords on the Piano.To Béla Bartók (for Michael Collins) the most virtuoso of the set; after a slow introduction a swirling folk-like dance unfolds mirroring Bartok?s penchant for simple modal shapes and ostinati rhythms.

Shadow of Paradise was written specially for Melinda Maxwell. The work was completed in 2005 the same year that she recorded the work together with Richard Benjafield (percussion) for the Dutton label.'The work is based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan and I have attempted to capture some of the spirit of his highly evocative text in my music.It is structured in three main sections: the opening section (And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war) is dramatic in nature with the oboe announcing two ideas - the first a high repeated note rhythmic pattern (later with multiphonics) answered by six differentlypitched drums and temple blocks and the second a short lyrical phrase mainly built on thirds.In the second section (A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw…Could I revive within me Her symphony and song) the solo oboe transforms the repeated notes and thirds of the first section into a love song underpinned by the percussionist’s vibraphone and crotales.A short reprise of the very opening leads into the final section (Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice…) which mirrors the text with three short dances in chain form folk-like in character and increasingly climactic. A final reprise of the opening seems to suggest a violent end but the oboe’s echo of the love song answered by the percussionist’s crotales brings the work to a gentler conclusion.'            Edward Gregson - December 2011Instrumentation:Solo oboeSolo percussion (6 temple blocks 2 bongos 4 tom-toms vibraphone crotales 2 tambourines)

Le compositeur et pianiste américain Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) est pratiquement inconnu chez nous, même si son art a pris racine ici : il reçut sa formation pianistique à Paris, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden et Francfort. Retourné dans son pays, il y travailla / Violon Et Piano / 6 pages / niveau : Facile à Intermédiaire / Partition

An arrangement of Edward Elgar 's simple and poignant setting of Laurence Binyon's poem 'For The Fallen', taken from his cantata 'With Proud Thanksgiving'. This piece for SATB is suitable for Remembrance Sunday and concerts and memorial services. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

for Cello and Piano-This fine collection of little masterpieces for cello and piano forms a showcase for the composer Edward Elgar. There is no great virtuosity needed to do justice to the melodious and sometimes ingenious music from ELGAR`S TREASURES. With the help ofthe accompanying CD - which can be used at home as well as for performances - you will gain an understanding of music. Content: Chanson de Nuit op. 15 no. 1 • Pleading op. 48 no. 1 • Speak Music! op. 41 no. 2 • In Moonlight (Alassio) op. 50 • Salut d´Amour op. 12 • Chanson de Matin op. 15 no. 2 • In Haven (Capri)(Sea Pictures op.37) • Nimrod (Enigma Variations op.36).

Par GREGSON EDWARD. The five song set the texts As I pass at dusk (Robert Kent), The day is gone (John Keats), Carol (C Day Lewis), Come live with me (C Day Lewis), and To my brother (Siegfried Sassoon). Also available for Mezzo-Soprano, or High Voice. / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Baryton et Piano

Edward Elgar wrote relatively few works for the piano but his Salut d'amour Op.12 - Love's Greeting has proved to be very popular over time. Written when he was still a struggling little known composer this beautiful ode to his wife still shows all the compositional skill and imagination that are to be found in his larger-scale compositions. This arrangement is for Violin and Piano in D.