Edward Elgar: 'Carissima', piano solo and orchestral versions
Scope & Content:
Piano score (ff. 1-7) and full score (ff. 8-23), both bearing the cancelled title (ff. 1, 8) 'Récit d'amour'. First performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 15 Feb. 1914. Based on fragmentary sketches in Add MS 63157, ff. 5v-6. Both versions, and other arrangements, published 1914.
Incidental music, in three acts, for the play by Violet Pearn based on A Prisoner in Fairyland, 1913, by Algernon Blackwood. Dated Dec. 1915 (Add MS 52530 C, f. 120). Full score. First performed at the Kingsway Theatre, London, 29 Dec. 1915.