Three Bavarian Dances, Op.27a

Elgar produced orchestral arrangements of three items (Nos.1, 3 and 6) from his own set of six songs for chorus and orchestra entitled "From the Bavarian Highlands" in the wake of the successful premiere at the Worcester Festival in April of 1896. The original settings, with text by Alice Elgar, were completed by April of the previous year and no doubt inspired by the Elgars' summer holidays spent in Garmisch, Bavaria. The orchestral suite was given its first performance at London's Crystal Palace on October 23, 1897 under August Manns. This new study score is a digitally-restored reproduction of the one first issued by Joseph Williams of London in 1901. In contrast to so many of the on-demand scores now available, this one comes with all the pages and the images have been thoroughly checked to make sure it is actually readable.