Three Bavarian Dances

Three Bavarian Dances

Three Bavarian Dances, Op 27 is an orchestral work by Edward Elgar.

It is an arrangement for orchestra of three of the six songs Elgar wrote under the collective title "From the Bavarian Highlands". The original song lyrics were written by the composer’s wife, Alice, as a memento of a holiday the Elgars had enjoyed in Bavaria in 1894. As well as titles ('The Dance', 'False Love', 'Lullaby', 'Aspiration', 'On the Alm', and 'The Marksmen') Alice Elgar gave the songs sub-titles in recollection of favourite places visited during the holiday. Elgar preserved both the titles and the sub-titles in his orchestral version of the three dances.

The suite was first performed at the Crystal Palace on 23 October 1897. Elgar scholar Dr Percy Young stated that the composer conducted, the Elgar Society website states that the conductor was August Manns, long-time resident conductor of the Crystal Palace concerts; but "The Times" ["The Times", Monday 25 October 1897] stated that Elgar conducted ('in first rate style') the Dances, and Manns the rest of the programme.

The three Dances are:

*"The Dance (Sonnenbichl)" [Sonnenbichl is a mountain in the spa town of Bad Wiessee on Lake Tegernsee in Bavaria. There is also a hotel of that name.] - "Allegretto giocoso"
*"Lullaby (In Hammersbach)" - "Moderato"
*"The Marksmen (Bei Murnau)" - "Allegro vivace"

All three Dances are characteristic of the composer. The first is bright and robust, the second is Elgar in his gentle pastoral vein, with a wistful melody for the horn, and the third – the longest (about four and a half minutes) – is an Elgar finale in miniature, lively at first, then broadening and finally quickening to end in a blaze of orchestral colour.

References

*The Elgar Society website (consulted January 2007) [http://www.elgar.org/3bavaria.htm]

*Percy Young: sleeve note to EMI recording ASD 2356 (1968)


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