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: An important early work by Edward Elgar, unjustly neglected for years, is finally to be given a performance by dynamic young musicians in Cambridge. : : I believe…in Beethoven : Composed in 1874 when Elgar was just sixteen, "Credo" is a setting of the Latin Creed – but all the music is taken directly from Beethoven symphonies! Drawing from parts of no. 5, 7 and 9, the young Elgar built an entirely original structure using techniques which prefigure many of his later, greater works. : : … in borrowing : Elgar’s works are saturated with references to Beethoven, most famously in his homage to Beethovenian slow movements in Nimrod – indeed, the quotation of the Adagio from the Ninth Symphony in Credo almost sounds like a reference to late Elgar by his younger self! : : …in King’s College, Cambridge : This performance is being mounted by the student-run King’s College Musical Society on 24 February 2002 in the chapel, and will be given by King’s Voices – the exciting new mixed-voice choir of the college. The concert will also feature Berio’s extraordinary Rendering of the sketches for Schubert’s tenth symphony, as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and Handel’s "Zadok the Priest". : : For further information, contact James Olsen, Vice-President of King’s College Musical Society: : james@kcms.org.uk : 271 King’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST

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