Pleading (Elgar)

Pleading (Elgar)

"Pleading" is a poem written by Arthur L. Salmon, [Arthur Leslie Salmon (born 1865), lover of literature, poet, music critic and author of British travel guides.] and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1908, as his Op.48.

This is one of the most popular of Elgar's songs. Elgar had returned home at the end of September 1908, feeling depressed after taking the score of his first Symphony to the publishers. Arthur Salmon had sent him a book of poems, and the loneliness expressed in "Pleading" fitted his mood. He finished the song within a week, and added the orchestration the next month. He wrote the song for, and dedicated it to his great friend Lady Maud Warrender.

It was published by Novello. It has been referred to as Elgar's Op. 48, No. 1, [Percy Young, "Elgar O. M.", p.424] as if a set of songs had been planned for Lady Maud Warrender, but no other Op. 48 songs are known. [Many of Arthur Salmon's poems were set to music by other composers: "Homing", with music written by ballad composer Teresa del Riego (1876-1896) and published in 1917 expresses sentiments similarly and would have been a suitable companion song for "Pleading". Noteworthy among others are "Wait!" (1916) and "The curtain falls" (1923) with music by the aristocratic lady composer Guy d'Hardelot; and "My dear old town" (1932) with music by Australian-born May H. Brahe (1884-1986).]

Lyrics

PLEADING

:Will you come homeward from the hills of Dreamland,::Home in the dusk, and speak to me again?:Tell me the stories that I am forgetting,::Quicken my hopes, and recompense my pain?

:Will you come homeward from the hills of Dreamland?::I have grown weary, though I wait for you yet;:Watching the fallen leaf, the faith grown fainter,::The memory smoulder’d to a dull regret.

:Shall the remembrance die in dim forgetting–::All the fond light that glorified my way?:Will you come homeward from the hills of Dreamland,::Home in the dusk, and turn my night to day?

Recordings

* [http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Works-Songs-Piano-Music-By-Edward-Elgar-MP3-Download/11044195.html Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar] has "Pleading" performed by Mark Wilde (tenor), with David Owen Norris (piano).

* [http://www.elgarfoundation.org/trolleyed/2/12/40/index.htm Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano] Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Mees (piano)

* [http://www.elgarfoundation.org/cgi-bin/trolleyed_public.cgi?action=showprod_CD0286&url=http://www.elgarfoundation.org/trolleyed/2/51/index.htm Elgar: The Collector's Edition, CD 29] Robert Tear (tenor), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)

* [http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2000/02/somm220.htm The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220] Catherine Wyn-Rogers (soprano) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999

References

*Kennedy, Michael "Portrait of Elgar" (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0193154145

*Moore, Jerrold N. “Edward Elgar: a creative life” (Oxford University Press, 1984) ISBN 0193154471

*Young, Percy M., "Elgar O.M." (Collins, 1955)

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