Name: Elgar - Lullaby from Three Bavarian Dances (String Quartet Parts) - Parts Digital Download
SKU: B&D12943 Parts Digital Download
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SKU: B&D12943 Parts Digital Download Category: Elgar, Edward

Piece Description

In the early 1890s, whilst on holiday in Bavaria, Elgar composed several pieces for chorus and keyboard for a group of musicians he met at the inn in which he was staying. He later orchestrated three of the pieces that were published as Three Bavarian Dances – this arrangement is the second movement of that suite. The Pavão Quartet recorded this arrangement on the CD Dreaming, released in 2008 on Discrete Recordings DISC0801 and re-released in 2010 on Discadia Records DISCA001. Included on the same CD are four more of Martelli’s Grieg, Beethoven, Debussy and Dvořák arrangements also published by Broadbent & Dunn.

Review: "Elgar's Three Bavarian Dances were originally performed in orchestral form at the Crystal Palace in London in 1897. Their origin lies within songs Elgar wrote under the title of From the Bavarian Highlands, depicting a vacation taken by the composer and his wife in Bavaria in 1894. The second moderato movement Lullaby is now available in an arrangement for string quartet. For the upper intermediate to advanced string quartet." – News Notes May 2008

Additional information

Media	Digital Download
Composer	Edward Elgar
Arranger	Carlo Martelli
Instrumentation	String Quartet
Difficulty	Medium-Difficult
Series	Classic String Quartet Collection
Movement Titles	Lullaby from The Bavarian Highlands

Biography

Martelli, Carlo

Carlo Martelli was born on the 12th December 1935 in London to an Italian father and an English mother. By the age of eleven Carlo had developed a passion for the symphony orchestra. Just before his twelfth birthday he started taking regular violin lessons and very soon began writing elaborate orchestral scores achieving a mastery in this field by the age of sixteen, by which time he had obtained a County Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition and viola. By the time he was 21 he had written a string quartet and had already had a great deal of success with several large scale serious symphonic compositions, notably his Second Symphony, which had many performances and broadcasts by several major orchestras in the few years after its completion. In the 1960's he turned to film music to make a living, and also worked steadily as a freelance viola player. His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world.