Lyrics
Programme Notes
Parry's most famous work, Jerusalem, was written in 1916 as a setting
for unison chorus and orchestra of William Blake's poem. Elgar made an
orchestral arrangement in 1922 for the Leeds festival and both versions
are regularly played. Jerusalem normally forms the climax at the last
night of the Proms season in London; its soaring grandeur has long been
associated with everything that was English in the early twentieth century.
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