Laura van der Heijden joins the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for Elgar's lyrical Cello Concerto, along with Beethoven's Symphony no.1 and Strauss' Death and Transfiguration. Show more Laura van ...

The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance, in October 1919, with the composer himself conducting, opened the first post-war season of the London Sympho ...

Let’s not beat about the bush: it takes something to make Elgar’s Cello Concerto work on the viola, to make it convincing even in those moments where a transposition up into the viola’s higher ...