2012-02-06 13:18:59

Dedicated to two young princesses...


Towards the end of his life Sir Edward Elgar dedicated a 'Nursery Suite" to two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret and their mother, says music historian Monsignor Philip Whitmore: "Elgar jotted down a few notes about each movement in the suite. ' The first one', he said, 'should call up memories of happy and peaceful awakenings: the music flows in a serene way; a fragment of a hymn tune is introduced, a hymn written for little children when the composer was a youth.' ...The first movement of the nursery suite is about waking in the morning. The hymn - tune comes in quietly at first, then towards the end, it's repeated more loudly, and it dies away to a peaceful close: the day has begun."

A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick .

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