Elgar Light of Life (Lux Christi) Vocal Score
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The Novello edition of Elgar's Light of Life is in English for SATB.
Catalogue Number: NOV072338R
ISBN: 9780853607229
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Elgar proposed to call this, his first oratorio, Lux Christi, but his publishers Novello persuaded him to provide an English title. He chose The Light of Life. The story is of the blind beggar whose sight Christ restored. The words are taken from St John's Gospel with some rather unsatisfactory additions by the Reverend Capel-Cure.
Inevitably, the work does not quite achieve the standard and consistency of the oratorios that soon followed it - it would be unreasonable to expect Elgar to attain perfection with his first foray in the genre. It nevertheless represents an important step in his musical development. It was the longest work that Elgar had at that time composed, and the first in which he adopted leitmotifs for the main characters and concepts. It shares some of these with The Apostles and The Kingdom, most notably the gentle motif representing Jesus as the giver of light. First introduced towards the end of the work's prelude, it occurs repeatedly in different forms throughout this work then re-emerges as the principal crescendo in the prologue of The Apostles. Indeed, while The Light of Life tells a self-contained story, it is appropriate to regard it musically as the first of the trilogy of New Testament oratorios continued by The Apostles and The Kingdom.
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