Edward Elgar: Une Voix Dans Le Desert: Voice: Vocal Work

When The Spring Comes Round?(original title in French: Quand nos bourgeons se rouvriront) is a song for solo Soprano Voice part of a staged recitation with orchestra ?Une voix dans ledésert? (A Voice in the Desert) written by the English composer?Edward Elgar?in 1915. The words are by the Belgian poet Émile Cammaerts and were translated into English by his wife Tita Brand.?In this Novello edition the orchestra part has been transcribed into a Piano accompaniment.Many of Sir Edward Elgar?s works have entered the British and international classicalconcert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations the Pomp and Circumstance Marches concertos for Violin and Cello and two symphonies. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.