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 ...
What is it with Elgar and young musicians? The Violin Concerto found Yehudi Menuhin and Nigel Kennedy ... Sheku has tweeted a video of himself playing Simon Parkin’s cello ensemble arrangement of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Elgar from the Abbey—what could be more fitting? From the regal opulence of Great is the Lord, first performed in Westminster Abbey in 1912, to the quiet devotion of the opus 2 Ave verum and Ave Maria ...
As Edward Elgar's compositions for imperial ceremonies and the First World War have specific functions (royal celebrations, marching music, rallying cries, and charitable offerings ... like the ...
POLLACK, HOWARD 2008. From the New World: Victor Herbert and His Second Cello Concerto. Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol. 2, Issue. 01, ...
Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) wrote very little solo music for the organ, despite the fact that he was for a short time a professional organist. Given this ambiguous nature of Elgar’s relationship with ...
It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles, string orchestras, as a member of the string section of ...
September 20, 2024 • NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Lars Gotrich provide a guide the most exciting new releases out today. This week, the selections include some recordings that are new and ...
Meneses’s cello prowess before a performance of the Elgar cello concerto. “It’s just something that you use to produce music.” Mr. Meneses left his homeland at 16 to study in Germany with ...