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- Lennox Berkeley
Elegy, Op. 33 no.2 (1978)
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Programme Note
Elegy for String Orchestra
Lennox Berkeley was asked by John and Janet Craxton in 1978 to contribute a work to the concert given in memory of their mother, Essie, at the Wigmore Hall in April of the same year. The result was the highly appropriate Elegy.
The Elegy for string orchestra is a transcription of the Elegy for violin and piano, Op 33 No 2, written for Frederick Grinke in 1950. The change in the instrumental colour adds a new warmth to the music. It also serves to highlight aspects of the original that have come to be regarded as typical of Berkeley’s style, the economy but primacy of melody found in the outer sections and the lyrical counterpoint of the inner.
James Rushton, Chester Music
Lennox Berkeley was asked by John and Janet Craxton in 1978 to contribute a work to the concert given in memory of their mother, Essie, at the Wigmore Hall in April of the same year. The result was the highly appropriate Elegy.
The Elegy for string orchestra is a transcription of the Elegy for violin and piano, Op 33 No 2, written for Frederick Grinke in 1950. The change in the instrumental colour adds a new warmth to the music. It also serves to highlight aspects of the original that have come to be regarded as typical of Berkeley’s style, the economy but primacy of melody found in the outer sections and the lyrical counterpoint of the inner.
James Rushton, Chester Music