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 Symphony ...

Somebody once said that the way Elgar chooses to open his Cello Concerto, with those tortured chords sounding as if they have to be excavated from the cello face, is as if Shakespeare had started ...

A century after the premiere of Sir Edward Elgar’s monumental Cello Concerto in E minor, British cellistSheku Kanneh-Mason released a performance of the work under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle in his ...

Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...

Music of profound sorrow and exceptional beauty: Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a phoenix rising from the ashes of a world at war, an elegiac lament for an England lost forever. Much of Edward Elgar’s ...

Remembering the inimitable Jacqueline du Pré, widely considered as one of the greatest classical cellists of the 20th century. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jacqueline du Pré’s Royal ...

Edward Elgar is one of this country’s finest composers but a string of inadequate performances and his popularity among ‘the wrong sort’ do him no favours One of the mysteries of London musical life ...

Helen Wallace compares recordings of Elgar’s cello concerto and makes a recommendation: Top recommendation - only available as a download or as a collected edition: Greatest Cello Concertos (Blue ...

Anna Clyne’s impressive new work is a cello concerto inspired by Persian poetry and outshining the familiar Elgar work in Inbal Segev’s performance Dance is Anna Clyne’s hugely impressive new cello ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule 1 Adagio – Moderato The Cello Concerto was the last important work that ...

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Danish National Symphony Orchestra Edward Elgar, Composer Mario Venzago, Conductor Sol Gabetta, Cello Sospiri Danish National Symphony Orchestra Edward Elgar, Composer ...