The celebrated young American cellist walks us through her recording of this "devastating" concerto written just after the end of World War I. She... Alisa Weilerstein Plays Elgar: Exploring Music ...

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, ...

One hundred years ago this summer, Edward Elgar completed a concerto that became one of the linchpins of classical cello repertoire. The piece was thrust into popular consciousness more than four ...

An award-winning cellist joins an award-winning orchestra for an award-worthy program of music by Beethoven, Elgar and Sierra this weekend at Miller Symphony Hall. Matt Haimovitz will team up with the ...

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 ...

To some, it remains simply the greatest recording in the history of classical music. Its earliest reviewers instantly recognised what one of them called its "rarest magic." And still, more than 50 ...

The ESO and William Boughton continued their pursuit of excellence in performing Elgar's compositions with a keenly anticipated interpretation of his Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85, with Natalie ...

The biggest repertoire draw here was meant to be Edward Elgar's glorious Cello Concerto, with Daniel Barenboim conducting, paired with two other works: Elliott Carter's Cello Concerto and Max Bruch's ...

ON my 16th birthday my godfather, the composer Herbert Howells, presented me with a score of Elgar's Cello Concerto, which he inscribed: "To Julian, from HH to whom EE once said of this work, It 's ...

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