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 ...

Marking the 150th anniversary of Edward Elgar's birth in June this year, BBC Radio 3 present a series of special concert broadcasts.

Notable for its charged musical energy, Introduction and Allegro mirrors In the South in its florid, dramatic string writing, ...

How could he have known what was to occur, for after his symphonic study Falstaff (1913) he wrote nothing more of importance until 1919; there’s a final magnificent autumnal flourish with his Cello ...

“I’m extremely excited to be playing the first movement of Elgar’s cello concerto with some of the best young musicians in the area, “ Feng told SYO about her piece this year. “I love th ...

Review of the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra performance which started with Overture to the Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner.