Not content with mere rings to mark their engagement in 1888, Edward Elgar and his wife-to-be Alice exchanged artistic gifts too. She had given him a poem that she had written a few years earlier, ...

Arguably the most instantly recognisable and dramatic pieces of music ever written for the instrument, Elgar’s Cello Concerto is one of the greatest pieces of music written in the early 20th century.

Those drawn-out opening chords are some of the most memorable in all music. Stern, sensitive and dramatic, they connect this 20th century masterpiece with another monolith of the repertoire, Bach's ...

Salut d’Amour: Encore works and transcriptions by Elgar, Rentaro, de Falla, Debussy, Kreisler, Rachmaninoff, von Paradis, do Vale, Kosaku, Gershwin and Ravel Anne Akiko Meyers, violin, Sandra Rivers, ...

Called “the fast rising star of conducting” Klaus Mäkelä returns to conduct a program highlighting the works of British conductors: Elgar’s much loved Cello Concerto, and Walton’s hugely sonic, ...

Elgar’s enigmatic concerto is often referred to as an impassioned lament for a lost world. It was the composer’s last orchestral work, and his most confessional. Written in 1919, this darkly ...

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, ...

Turkish-born cellist Efe Baltacigil will perform Feb. 24 with Symphony Tacoma at Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, 7700 Skansie Ave. Symphony Tacoma Courtesy Turkish-born cellist Efe Baltacigil will ...

After their acclaimed series of the complete Beethoven-Scharwenka symphonies for piano duet, the enterprising South African-born duo return with The Planets in its original form: Holst’s own score for ...

Frances Fyfield is joined by violinist Rupert Marshall Luck and pianist Lucy Parham to explore the love story behind the autograph manuscript Elgar's salon classic Salut D'Amour. Show more In this ...