The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by ... Sakari Oramo conducts Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius. Davis was one of the supreme interpreters of Elgar’s heart-rending masterpiece ...

Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony ... Elgar wanted: ‘Some of the colour is meant to be no ...

Previous experience of Elgar’s 1st Symphony is not essential, and there is no audition ... the week closest to Elgar’s birthday on June 2, the festival is an annual celebration of his music ...