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Pleading (Elgar)

It was published by Novello &Co. It has been referred to as Elgar's Op. 48, No. 1,^[2] as if a set of songs had been planned for Lady Maud Warrender, but no other Op. 48 songs are known.^[3]

Lyrics[edit]

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[edit]

• Songs and Piano Music by Edward Elgar has "Pleading" performed by Mark Wilde (tenor), with David Owen Norris (piano).
• Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Mees (piano)
• Elgar: The Collector's Edition, CD 29 Robert Tear (tenor), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)
• The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (soprano) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999

References[edit]

• Kennedy, Michael Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0-19-315414-5
• Moore, Jerrold N. “Edward Elgar: a creative life” (Oxford University Press, 1984) ISBN 0-19-315447-1
• Young, Percy M., Elgar O.M. (Collins, 1955)

External links[edit]

• Pleading: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project