It was to have been one of the grandest things in English music – if ... touching things Elgar ever wrote, and during the composer’s lifetime it became popular as a separate concert piece.

Elgar turned his attention to the Cello Concerto, after being reminded by his friend, the cellist Carl Fuchs, of an early promise to write the work. All the context surrounding the genesis of the ...

Today, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is a national monument. But at its first performance in Birmingham, 105 years ago, the music was thought daring, even difficult, while the subject matter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deeply associated with the music of Edward Elgar, he was to have conducted this concert. Instead, it was dedicated to his memory, with the orchestra’s current principal conductor, Sakari Oramo ...