The violin was Elgar’s own instrument and his Violin Concerto is almost like a personal confession: it was ‘too emotional’, Elgar admitted, adding that he loved it nonetheless. The Spanish ...

A third large-scale work, the inspired Violin Concerto, was premiered in 1910 by Fritz Kreisler. Elgar was awarded the highest British honour for artists, the Order of Merit, in 1911; the next year ...

It’s commonplace for an orchestra’s Concertmaster to perform as a featured soloist. Much less typical is when a second ...

Violin Concerto; Falstaff): Dame Janet Baker (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor) (5-CD set also features performances conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Landon ...