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 ...

Edward Elgar knew the violin inside and out—he played it before turning to composing, crafting music that is both technically ...

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 ...

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 ...