There’s a fraction greater warmth to the string timbre in that earlier transfer; but either way Boult’s July 1976 account of Elgar’s First Symphony (the last of his six at the Proms) simply demands to ...

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The Cello Concerto was the last important work that Elgar wrote. Its first performance ... opened the first post-war season of the London Symphony Orchestra at the Queen’s Hall.

His music has been heard as emblematic of Empire and the English landscape. The recent success of Anthony Payne's elaboration of the sketches for Elgar's Third Symphony has prompted a critical ...

The Jacksonville Symphony is set to captivate audiences with its second Florida Blue Classical concert of the 2024/25 Season, ...

Now living in London, his religious faith receding, Elgar turned his attention to what he considered to be the pinnacle of the composer’s art – the writing of a symphony. He achieved his ambition in ...