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”Carillon” is a recitation with orchestral accompaniment written by the English composer Edward Elgar as his Op. 75, in 1914. The words are by the Belgian poet Émile Cammaerts. It was first performed in the Queen's Hall, London, on 7 December 1914, with the recitation by Cammaerts' wife Tita Brand, and the orchestra conducted by the composer. The work was performed in January 1915 at the London Coliseum with Henry Ainley, and at Harrogate on 28 August 1915, with the soprano the Hon. Mrs. Julian Clifford and a military band. The band arrangement was by Percy Fletcher. On 15 August 1918, ''Carillon'' and ''Le drapeau belge'' were performed with success at a popular concert in Prospect Park, Brooklyn,〔(Pay Belgium Tribute in Brooklyn concert )〕 with the recitations by the Belgian dramatic artist Carlo Liten.〔Carlo Liten was born in 1879 in Antwerp, Belgium of a Belgian father and Italian mother. He was a distinguished theatre actor and reciter, at the time well-known in Europe and America. He performed in Elgar's ''Carillon'', ''Le drapeau belge'' and ''Une voix dans le désert''. After World War I he acted in three films "The Strongest" (1920), "L'Affaire du train" (1921) and "Les Mystères de Paris" (1922). It was said of him by John Palmer (assistant editor of the London ''Saturday Review'') that Liten "had the most wonderful voice in the memory of any living person ... for resonance, servicableness and charm the most remarkable I have ever heard from any actor. Add to this mastery of gesture and expression dictated by a refined intelligence and we get a rare personality." 〕 ==History== History records the reasons why Germany invaded and occupied "neutral" Belgium in August 1914, and the horrific events which followed when Belgium showed armed resistance: cities and people were destroyed, and the country put to almost complete ruin. King Albert and his army resisted but were quickly forced back to West Flanders on the Flemish side of the country. There was much national sympathy: in London, at Christmas, a patriotic anthology called ''King Albert's Book'' ("A tribute to the Belgian King and people from representative men and women throughout the world") was organised by Hall Caine with contributions from leading artists, writers and musicians. Elgar was asked to contribute, and he remembered reading in ''The Observer'' a poem by Émile Cammaerts. Cammaerts was married to Tita Brand, the daughter of the singer Marie Brema who had sung in the first performance of Elgar's ''Dream of Gerontius'', and Elgar had her immediate approval for the use of the poem. Elgar's friend and candid biographer, Rosa Burley, recalled: Elgar took Miss Burley's advice, and set the poem as narratives and recitatives interspersed with orchestral interludes. Miss Burley was present at the premiere by Tita Brand at Queen's Hall, and related how it had to be arranged for her state to be hidden from the audience: The version for voice with piano accompaniment was published, with the French words only, in ''King Albert's Book.〔King Albert's Book, pages 84–92〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carillon (Elgar)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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