XTC (Ecstasy) è una canzone con parole e musica scritta dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar nel 1930. È stata la sua ultima canzone e la scrisse per il soprano Joan Elwes.^[1]

Gli schizzi di Elgar per la musica di accompagnamento furono scritti separatamente dalle parole. Alla fine degli schizzi scrisse Fine del songs November 11th 1930.

La canzone fu assemblata dal pianista-musicologo David Owen Norris^[2] dagli schizzi che trovò nella casa natale del compositore.

La prima esecuzione è avvenuta nel 150º anniversario della nascita del compositore, il 2 giugno 2007, alla Royal Academy of Music di Londra, cantata dal soprano Amanda Pitt, accompagnata da David Owen Norris.

XTC^[3]

I gave my heart unto my love

As we passed across the dark, mysterious forest rast^[4]

The daylight faded and above

Ah! the sunset flam-ed down to gild the past.

Oh, my love! Oh, my life, dost thou remember?

My belov-ed? that dark December?

My heart with rapture o'erflow'd

My very inmost soul was waken'd,

We leaned against each other in the moon-light

Darkness came upon us, oh, lovely night.

We were lost then but ah! awaking!

Our hearts and souls were all aflame

As the forest deep unfolded us again.

• Songs & Piano Music by Edward Elgar has "XTC" performed by Amanda Pitt (soprano), with David Owen Norris playing Elgar's original 1844 Broadwood piano.

• [(EN) A first hearing for Elgar's last, 31 maggio 2007. URL consultato il 21 aprile 2020.
• FindArticles.com | CBSi, su findarticles.com, The Independent: Elgar 150th birthday celebrations. URL consultato il 21 aprile 2020.
• Three Elgar Premieres on his 150th Birthday, su southampton.ac.uk, University of Southampton. URL consultato il 21 aprile 2020.

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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)
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