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 ... himself playing Simon Parkin’s cello ensemble arrangement of ‘Nimrod’ and while his appreciation of the ‘hunter’ as ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Edward Elgar's compositions for imperial ceremonies and the First World War have specific functions (royal celebrations, marching music, rallying cries ... like the ‘Enigma’ Variations or the ...

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1923) is one of England’s greatest composers, best known for big works like his “Enigma Variations,” ...

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 ...

Antonio Pappano has started his official tenure as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra by looking back in time.

He had won two major international cello competitions ... before a performance of the Elgar cello concerto. “It’s just something that you use to produce music.” Mr. Meneses left his homeland ...

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September 7, 2024 • The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes ...