Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is exactly 100 years since Elgar’s Violin Concerto was first performed at the old Queen’s Hall in London.

Sir Edward Elgar, the Englishman who put English music back on the the international map early in the 20th century with his Enigma Variations, wrote his grand Violin Concerto in B-Minor in 1910. It ...

Edward Elgar’s monumental Violin Concerto is one of those classical works that once enjoyed tremendous acclaim but is rarely heard these days. American violinist Elena Urioste believes the 1910 ...

Plenty of non-English violinists have tackled the Elgar concerto, but none in my experience has combined such feeling for the idiom with such natural virtuosity – except, perhaps, Julia Fischer, who ...

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 inscription ...

Despite the status that Elgar’s Cello Concerto has acquired since its premiere, there is a case to be made for proposing that it was in fact the Violin Concerto that was truly the composer’s favourite ...

Canadian James Ehnes, who appears this week with the San Francisco Symphony playing Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy," is a splendid violinist, with a sweet, lyrical string tone and a zippy rhythmic sense.

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With a Danish violinist, a German orchestra and a British conductor, this is a multi-national recording of Elgar’s masterpiece, but it just goes to show how universal his musical language is. As Sir ...