Twilight è una canzone scritta nel 1910 dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar, come sua Op. 59, n. 6. Elgar ambientò le parole della poesia The Twilight of Love, tratta dal volume 2 di una serie di poesie intitolate Embers di Sir Gilbert Parker.

Le canzoni dell'Opus 59 facevano parte di un ciclo di sei canzoni romantiche di Parker che non fu mai completato: i numeri 1, 2 e 4, stranamente, non furono mai composti. Le altre canzoni erano Oh, soft was the song and Was it some Golden Star? Questi brani erano stati originariamente scritti con accompagnamento di piano, ma in seguito furono arrangiati dal compositore per grande orchestra.

La composizione impegnò Elgar dal dicembre 1909 al gennaio 1910 e furono pubblicate da Novello nel 1910. La première fu eseguita da Muriel Foster al Jaeger Memorial Concert^[1] nella Queen's Hall di Londra il 24 gennaio 1910.

TWILIGHT

Adieu! and the sun goes awearily down,

The mist creeps up o'er the sleepy town,

The white sails bend to the shuddering mere,

And the reapers have reaped, and the night is here.

Adieu! and the years are a broken song,

The right grows weak in the strife with wrong,

The lilies of love have a crimson stain,

And the old days never will come again.

Adieu! Some time shall the veil between

The things that are, and that might have been,

Be folded back for our eyes to see,

And the meaning of all be clear to me.

• Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Mees (piano)
• The Songs of Edward Elgar SOMM CD 220 Christopher Maltman (baritone) with Malcolm Martineau (piano), at Southlands College, London, April 1999

• Kennedy, Michael, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0-19-315414-5
• Percy M. Young, Elgar O.M.: a study of a musician, London, Collins, 1973, OCLC 869820.
• Parker, Sir Gilbert, (1894) "Embers" Gutenberg Free Text

• (EN) Spartiti o libretti di Twilight, su International Music Score Library Project, Project Petrucci LLC.
• (EN) Twilight, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.

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Musiche di scena e balletto	Diarmuid and Grania (1901) · The Crown of India (1911–12) · The Starlight Express (1915–16) · The Sanguine Fan (1917)
Orchestrale	The Wand of Youth (1869–1907) · Powick Asylum Music (1879–1884) · Sevillana (1884) · Froissart (1890) · Sursum corda (1894) · Serenata per archi (1894) · Imperial March (1897) · Tre danze bavaresi (1898) · Enigma Variations (1899) · Cockaigne (1900–01) · Pomp and Circumstance (1901–30) · Dream Children (1902) · Introduzione e allegro (1904–05) · In the South, Alassio (1904–05) · Sinfonia n. 1 (1907–08) · Sinfonia n. 2 (1909–11) · Falstaff (1913) · Sospiri (1914) · Carillon (1914) · Polonia (1915) · Une voix dans le désert (1915) · Le drapeau belge (1917) · Nursery Suite (1930) · The Severn Suite (1930) · Sinfonia n. 3 (1932–34)
Sinfonia concertante	Concerto per violino (1901–10) · Romance (1910) · Concerto per violoncello (1918–19)
Da camera/strumentale	Duetto per trombone e contrabbasso (1887) · Idylle (1883) · Salut d'Amour (1888) · Chanson de Nuit (1897) · Chanson de Matin (1899) · Sonata per organo (1898) · Concert Allegro (1901) · Sonata per violino (1918) · Quartetto per archi (1918) · Quintetto per pianoforte (1918–19)
Vocale/corale orchestrale	The Black Knight (1889–93) · From the Bavarian Highlands (1895–96) · Il sogno di Geronte (1899–1900) · The Kingdom (1901–06) · Coronation Ode (1902) · Land of Hope and Glory (1902) · The Apostles (1902–03) · The Music Makers (1912) · The Spirit of England (1915–17)
Vocale	"The Language of Flowers" (1872) · "The Self Banished" (1875) · "A War Song" (1884) Seven Lieder (1885-1894): "Like to the Damask Rose" (1892), "Queen Mary's Song" (1889), "A Song of Autumn" (1892), "The Poet's Life" (1892), "Through the Long Days" (1885), "Rondel" (1894), "The Shepherd's Song" (1892) "Is she not passing fair?" (1886) · "As I laye a-thynkynge" (1888) · "The Wind at Dawn" (1888) · "The Shepherd's Song" (1892) · "After" (1900) · "A Song of Flight" (1900) Sea Pictures (1899): "Sea Slumber Song", "In Haven", "Sabbath Morning at Sea", "Where Corals Lie", "The Swimmer" (1897–99) "Dry those fair, those crystal eyes" (1899) · The Pipes of Pan (1899) · "Always and Everywhere" (1901) · "Come, Gentle Night!" (1901) · "In the Dawn" (1901) · "Speak, Music!" (1901) · "There are seven that pull the thread" (1901) · "In Moonlight" ((1904) · "Follow the Colours" (1907) · "Pleading" (1908) · "A Child Asleep" (1909) · "Oh, soft was the song" (1910) · "Was it some Golden Star?" (1910) · "Twilight" (1910) · "The Chariots of the Lord" (1914) · "Fight for Right" (1916) · "Inside the Bar" (1917) The Fringes of the Fleet (1916): "The Lowestoft Boat", "Fate's Discourtesy", "Submarines", "The Sweepers" Pageant of Empire (1924): "The Blue Mountains", "Shakespeare's Kingdom", "The Islands", "The Heart of Canada", "Sailing Westward", "Merchant Adventurers", "The Immortal Legions", "A Song of Union", "The Immortal Legions" "XTC" (1930)
Dal nome di Elgar	Elgar Birthplace Museum · Elgar Society · Altopiani di Elgar
Raffigurazioni culturali	Elgar (film)
Famiglia	August Jaeger · Caroline Alice Elgar
Voci correlate	Ivor Atkins · Michael Kennedy · Jerrold Northrop Moore · Festival di Birmingham · Broadheath
Composizioni di Edward Elgar

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